linux-stable/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h
Nadia Derbey 9eefe520c8 ipc: do not use a negative value to re-enable msgmni automatic recomputing
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 <val> > /proc/sys/kernel/msgmni
   . sets msg_ctlmni to <val>
   . 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 <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Solofo Ramangalahy <Solofo.Ramangalahy@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00

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#ifndef __IPC_NAMESPACE_H__
#define __IPC_NAMESPACE_H__
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/idr.h>
#include <linux/rwsem.h>
#include <linux/notifier.h>
/*
* ipc namespace events
*/
#define IPCNS_MEMCHANGED 0x00000001 /* Notify lowmem size changed */
#define IPCNS_CREATED 0x00000002 /* Notify new ipc namespace created */
#define IPCNS_REMOVED 0x00000003 /* Notify ipc namespace removed */
#define IPCNS_CALLBACK_PRI 0
struct ipc_ids {
int in_use;
unsigned short seq;
unsigned short seq_max;
struct rw_semaphore rw_mutex;
struct idr ipcs_idr;
};
struct ipc_namespace {
struct kref kref;
struct ipc_ids ids[3];
int sem_ctls[4];
int used_sems;
int msg_ctlmax;
int msg_ctlmnb;
int msg_ctlmni;
atomic_t msg_bytes;
atomic_t msg_hdrs;
int auto_msgmni;
size_t shm_ctlmax;
size_t shm_ctlall;
int shm_ctlmni;
int shm_tot;
struct notifier_block ipcns_nb;
};
extern struct ipc_namespace init_ipc_ns;
extern atomic_t nr_ipc_ns;
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSVIPC
#define INIT_IPC_NS(ns) .ns = &init_ipc_ns,
extern int register_ipcns_notifier(struct ipc_namespace *);
extern int cond_register_ipcns_notifier(struct ipc_namespace *);
extern void unregister_ipcns_notifier(struct ipc_namespace *);
extern int ipcns_notify(unsigned long);
#else /* CONFIG_SYSVIPC */
#define INIT_IPC_NS(ns)
#endif /* CONFIG_SYSVIPC */
#if defined(CONFIG_SYSVIPC) && defined(CONFIG_IPC_NS)
extern void free_ipc_ns(struct kref *kref);
extern struct ipc_namespace *copy_ipcs(unsigned long flags,
struct ipc_namespace *ns);
extern void free_ipcs(struct ipc_namespace *ns, struct ipc_ids *ids,
void (*free)(struct ipc_namespace *,
struct kern_ipc_perm *));
static inline struct ipc_namespace *get_ipc_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns)
{
if (ns)
kref_get(&ns->kref);
return ns;
}
static inline void put_ipc_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns)
{
kref_put(&ns->kref, free_ipc_ns);
}
#else
static inline struct ipc_namespace *copy_ipcs(unsigned long flags,
struct ipc_namespace *ns)
{
if (flags & CLONE_NEWIPC)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
return ns;
}
static inline struct ipc_namespace *get_ipc_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns)
{
return ns;
}
static inline void put_ipc_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns)
{
}
#endif
#endif