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Commit f84d49b2 authored by Naohiro Ooiwa's avatar Naohiro Ooiwa Committed by Ingo Molnar
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signal: Print warning message when dropping signals



When the system has too many timers or too many aggregate
queued signals, the EAGAIN error is returned to application
from kernel, including timer_create() [POSIX.1b].

It means that the app exceeded the limit of pending signals,
but in general application writers do not expect this
outcome and the current silent failure can cause rare app
failures under very high load.

This patch adds a new message when we reach the limit
and if print_fatal_signals is enabled:

    task/1234: reached RLIMIT_SIGPENDING, dropping signal

If you see this message and your system behaved unexpectedly,
you can run following command to lift the limit:

   # ulimit -i unlimited

With help from Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNaohiro Ooiwa <nooiwa@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <4AF6E7E2.9080406@miraclelinux.com>
[ Modified a few small details, gave surrounding code some love. ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 2a855dd0
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