kernel/fork.c: new function for max_threads

PAGE_SIZE is not guaranteed to be equal to or less than 8 times the
THREAD_SIZE.

E.g.  architecture hexagon may have page size 1M and thread size 4096.
This would lead to a division by zero in the calculation of max_threads.

With this patch the buggy code is moved to a separate function
set_max_threads.  The error is not fixed.

After fixing the problem in a separate patch the new function can be
reused to adjust max_threads after adding or removing memory.

Argument mempages of function fork_init() is removed as totalram_pages is
an exported symbol.

The creation of separate patches for refactoring to a new function and for
fixing the logic was suggested by Ingo Molnar.

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index c507e29..01038e6 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -253,7 +253,26 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__put_task_struct);
 
 void __init __weak arch_task_cache_init(void) { }
 
-void __init fork_init(unsigned long mempages)
+/*
+ * set_max_threads
+ */
+static void set_max_threads(void)
+{
+	/*
+	 * The default maximum number of threads is set to a safe
+	 * value: the thread structures can take up at most one
+	 * eighth of the memory.
+	 */
+	max_threads = totalram_pages / (8 * THREAD_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE);
+
+	/*
+	 * we need to allow at least 20 threads to boot a system
+	 */
+	if (max_threads < 20)
+		max_threads = 20;
+}
+
+void __init fork_init(void)
 {
 #ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
 #ifndef ARCH_MIN_TASKALIGN
@@ -268,18 +287,7 @@ void __init fork_init(unsigned long mempages)
 	/* do the arch specific task caches init */
 	arch_task_cache_init();
 
-	/*
-	 * The default maximum number of threads is set to a safe
-	 * value: the thread structures can take up at most one
-	 * eighth of the memory.
-	 */
-	max_threads = mempages / (8 * THREAD_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE);
-
-	/*
-	 * we need to allow at least 20 threads to boot a system
-	 */
-	if (max_threads < 20)
-		max_threads = 20;
+	set_max_threads();
 
 	init_task.signal->rlim[RLIMIT_NPROC].rlim_cur = max_threads/2;
 	init_task.signal->rlim[RLIMIT_NPROC].rlim_max = max_threads/2;