Re: [PATCH] per-user signal pending and message queue limits

[Manfred Spraul]

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> I'm thinking about how to do the mqueue "kernel allocated memory" accounting, 
> and I have a problem. A user can create an mqueue of given size via sys_mq_open()
> using "msg_attr" structure (will be created in do_create). I can account for how much 
> memory has been allocated, but I can't at "deaccount" at kfree() time (this memory 
> is stored in inode->(mqueue_inode_info *)info->messages), because I dont know how big
> it is (its user selectable via "msg_attr" structure). 
>  
Why not? mqueue_delete_inode can look at info->attr.mq_maxmsg and 
info->attr.mq_curmsg.

--
   Manfred

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