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;