pids: increase pid_max based on num_possible_cpus

On a system with a substantial number of processors, the early default
pid_max of 32k will not be enough.  A system with 1664 CPU's, there are
25163 processes started before the login prompt.  It's estimated that with
2048 CPU's we will pass the 32k limit.  With 4096, we'll reach that limit
very early during the boot cycle, and processes would stall waiting for an
available pid.

This patch increases the early maximum number of pids available, and
increases the minimum number of pids that can be set during runtime.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
Signed-off-by: Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index aebb30d..e9fd8c1 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -513,6 +513,13 @@ void __init pidhash_init(void)
 
 void __init pidmap_init(void)
 {
+	/* bump default and minimum pid_max based on number of cpus */
+	pid_max = min(pid_max_max, max_t(int, pid_max,
+				PIDS_PER_CPU_DEFAULT * num_possible_cpus()));
+	pid_max_min = max_t(int, pid_max_min,
+				PIDS_PER_CPU_MIN * num_possible_cpus());
+	pr_info("pid_max: default: %u minimum: %u\n", pid_max, pid_max_min);
+
 	init_pid_ns.pidmap[0].page = kzalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 	/* Reserve PID 0. We never call free_pidmap(0) */
 	set_bit(0, init_pid_ns.pidmap[0].page);