Re: [PATCH] ipc/sem.c: prevent ENOMEM in semop() w/ SEM_UNDO flag
From: Seiichi Ikarashi
Date: Sun Aug 05 2012 - 19:16:39 EST
Hi Manfred,
(2012-08-04 02:39), Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Hi Seiichi,
>
> On 08/03/2012 02:49 PM, Seiichi Ikarashi wrote:
>> semop() with SEM_UNDO sem_flg can result in ENOMEM even after
>> succeeding semget() with large nsems.
> How large is nsems, what is the use case?
> Which kind of operations are performed?
> Only simple semop(,,1) calls?
A real case was as follows.
semget(IPC_PRIVATE, 70000, IPC_CREAT | IPC_EXCL);
sops[0].sem_num = 0;
sops[0].sem_op = 1;
sops[0].sem_flg = SEM_UNDO;
semop(semid, sops, 1);
>
> <linux/sem.h> still documents ~8000 as the upper limit, I'm not sure if
Ah, I did not know it.
#define SEMMSL 250 /* <= 8 000 max num of semaphores per id */
Thanks,
Seiichi
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