27 Jul, 2011
1 commit
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Add support for the shm_rmid_forced sysctl. If set to 1, all shared
memory objects in current ipc namespace will be automatically forced to
use IPC_RMID.The POSIX way of handling shmem allows one to create shm objects and
call shmdt(), leaving shm object associated with no process, thus
consuming memory not counted via rlimits.With shm_rmid_forced=1 the shared memory object is counted at least for
one process, so OOM killer may effectively kill the fat process holding
the shared memory.It obviously breaks POSIX - some programs relying on the feature would
stop working. So set shm_rmid_forced=1 only if you're sure nobody uses
"orphaned" memory. Use shm_rmid_forced=0 by default for compatability
reasons.The feature was previously impemented in -ow as a configure option.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix documentation, per Randy]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: readability/conventionality tweaks]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix shm_rmid_forced/shm_forced_rmid confusion, use standard comment layout]
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov
Cc: Randy Dunlap
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn"
Cc: Daniel Lezcano
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Alan Cox
Cc: Solar Designer
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Nov, 2009
1 commit
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Now that sys_sysctl is a generic wrapper around /proc/sys .ctl_name
and .strategy members of sysctl tables are dead code. Remove them.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
24 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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It's unused.
It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl
shouldn't care about the rest.It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Cc: David Howells
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: James Morris
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
03 Apr, 2009
1 commit
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As pointed out by Cedric Le Goater (in response to Alexey's original
comment wrt mqns), ipc_sysctl.c and utsname_sysctl.c are using
CONFIG_PROC_FS, not CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL, to determine whether to define
the proc_handlers. Change that.Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn
Cc: Cedric Le Goater
Acked-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Jan, 2009
1 commit
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proc_ipcauto_dointvec_minmax() is the only user of ipc_auto_callback(),
since the former function is protected by CONFIG_PROC_FS, so should be the
latter one.Just move its definition down.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong
Cc: Eric Biederman
Cc: Nadia Derbey
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Oct, 2008
1 commit
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name and nlen parameters passed to ->strategy hook are unused, remove
them. In general ->strategy hook should know what it's doing, and don't
do something tricky for which, say, pointer to original userspace array
may be needed (name).Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Acked-by: David S. Miller [ networking bits ]
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Matt Mackall
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Jul, 2008
1 commit
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This patch proposes an alternative to the "magical
positive-versus-negative number trick" Andrew complained about last week
in http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/24/418.This had been introduced with the patches that scale msgmni to the amount
of lowmem. With these patches, msgmni has a registered notification
routine that recomputes msgmni value upon memory add/remove or ipc
namespace creation/ removal.When msgmni is changed from user space (i.e. value written to the proc
file), that notification routine is unregistered, and the way to make it
registered back is to write a negative value into the proc file. This is
the "magical positive-versus-negative number trick".To fix this, a new proc file is introduced: /proc/sys/kernel/auto_msgmni.
This file acts as ON/OFF for msgmni automatic recomputing.With this patch, the process is the following:
1) kernel boots in "automatic recomputing mode"
/proc/sys/kernel/msgmni contains the value that has been computed (depends
on lowmem)
/proc/sys/kernel/automatic_msgmni contains "1"2) echo > /proc/sys/kernel/msgmni
. sets msg_ctlmni to
. de-activates automatic recomputing (i.e. if, say, some memory is added
msgmni won't be recomputed anymore)
. /proc/sys/kernel/automatic_msgmni now contains "0"3) echo "0" > /proc/sys/kernel/automatic_msgmni
. de-activates msgmni automatic recomputing
this has the same effect as 2) except that msg_ctlmni's value stays
blocked at its current value)3) echo "1" > /proc/sys/kernel/automatic_msgmni
. recomputes msgmni's value based on the current available memory size
and number of ipc namespaces
. re-activates automatic recomputing for msgmni.Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey
Cc: Solofo Ramangalahy
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 Apr, 2008
2 commits
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The enhancement as asked for by Yasunori: if msgmni is set to a negative
value, register it back into the ipcns notifier chain.A new interface has been added to the notification mechanism:
notifier_chain_cond_register() registers a notifier block only if not already
registered. With that new interface we avoid taking care of the states
changes in procfs.Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey
Cc: Yasunori Goto
Cc: Matt Helsley
Cc: Mingming Cao
Cc: Pierre Peiffer
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Make msgmni not recomputed anymore upon ipc namespace creation / removal or
memory add/remove, as soon as it has been set from userland.As soon as msgmni is explicitly set via procfs or sysctl(), the associated
callback routine is unregistered from the ipc namespace notifier chain.Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey
Cc: Yasunori Goto
Cc: Matt Helsley
Cc: Mingming Cao
Cc: Pierre Peiffer
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Feb, 2008
1 commit
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Currently the IPC namespace management code is spread over the ipc/*.c files.
I moved this code into ipc/namespace.c file which is compiled out when needed.The linux/ipc_namespace.h file is used to store the prototypes of the
functions in namespace.c and the stubs for NAMESPACES=n case. This is done
so, because the stub for copy_ipc_namespace requires the knowledge of the
CLONE_NEWIPC flag, which is in sched.h. But the linux/ipc.h file itself in
included into many many .c files via the sys.h->sem.h sequence so adding the
sched.h into it will make all these .c depend on sched.h which is not that
good. On the other hand the knowledge about the namespaces stuff is required
in 4 .c files only.Besides, this patch compiles out some auxiliary functions from ipc/sem.c,
msg.c and shm.c files. It turned out that moving these functions into
namespaces.c is not that easy because they use many other calls and macros
from the original file. Moving them would make this patch complicated. On
the other hand all these functions can be consolidated, so I will send a
separate patch doing this a bit later.Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Cc: Cedric Le Goater
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Cc: Herbert Poetzl
Cc: Kirill Korotaev
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Oct, 2007
1 commit
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Finish the work : kill all #ifdef CONFIG_IPC_NS.
Thanks Robert !
Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater
Cc: Eric Biederman
Cc: Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
15 Feb, 2007
2 commits
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The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name. Which is
pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented.I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of
register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register
duplicate sysctl entries.So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in
the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future
enhancments harder.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Russell King
Cc: David Howells
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: Corey Minyard
Cc: Neil Brown
Cc: "John W. Linville"
Cc: James Bottomley
Cc: Jan Kara
Cc: Trond Myklebust
Cc: Mark Fasheh
Cc: David Chinner
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Patrick McHardy
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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This is just a simple cleanup to keep kernel/sysctl.c from getting to crowded
with special cases, and by keeping all of the ipc logic to together it makes
the code a little more readable.[gcoady.lk@gmail.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn
Cc: Herbert Poetzl
Cc: Kirill Korotaev
Signed-off-by: Grant Coady
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds