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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/sched.h | 16 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 4d0754269884..0085d758d645 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -349,8 +349,20 @@ extern int mutex_spin_on_owner(struct mutex *lock, struct thread_info *owner); struct nsproxy; struct user_namespace; -/* Maximum number of active map areas.. This is a random (large) number */ -#define DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT 65536 +/* + * Default maximum number of active map areas, this limits the number of vmas + * per mm struct. Users can overwrite this number by sysctl but there is a + * problem. + * + * When a program's coredump is generated as ELF format, a section is created + * per a vma. In ELF, the number of sections is represented in unsigned short. + * This means the number of sections should be smaller than 65535 at coredump. + * Because the kernel adds some informative sections to a image of program at + * generating coredump, we need some margin. The number of extra sections is + * 1-3 now and depends on arch. We use "5" as safe margin, here. + */ +#define MAPCOUNT_ELF_CORE_MARGIN (5) +#define DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT (USHORT_MAX - MAPCOUNT_ELF_CORE_MARGIN) extern int sysctl_max_map_count; |