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From: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>,
	Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>,
	aswin@hp.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] ipc,shm: disable shmmax and shmall by default
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 09:33:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1397838812.19331.3.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5350EFAA.2030607@colorfullife.com>

On Fri, 2014-04-18 at 11:26 +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Hi Davidlohr,
> 
> On 04/18/2014 03:25 AM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> > So a value of 0 bytes or pages, for shmmax and shmall, respectively,
> > implies unlimited memory, as opposed to disabling sysv shared memory.
> That might be a second risk:
> Right now, a sysadmin can prevent sysv memory allocations with
> 
>      # sysctl kernel.shmall=0

Yeah, I had pointed this out previously, and it is addressed in the
changelog. shmall = 0 directly contradicts size < shmmin = 1, so I don't
know who's wrong there...

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-18 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-18  1:25 Davidlohr Bueso
2014-04-18  9:26 ` Manfred Spraul
2014-04-18 15:36   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-18 17:51     ` Manfred Spraul
2014-04-18 16:33   ` Davidlohr Bueso [this message]

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