From 9eefe520c814f6f62c5d36a2ddcd3fb99dfdb30e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nadia Derbey Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:48:08 -0700 Subject: 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 > /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 --- ipc/ipcns_notifier.c | 20 +++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'ipc/ipcns_notifier.c') diff --git a/ipc/ipcns_notifier.c b/ipc/ipcns_notifier.c index 70ff09183f7..b9b31a4f77e 100644 --- a/ipc/ipcns_notifier.c +++ b/ipc/ipcns_notifier.c @@ -55,25 +55,35 @@ static int ipcns_callback(struct notifier_block *self, int register_ipcns_notifier(struct ipc_namespace *ns) { + int rc; + memset(&ns->ipcns_nb, 0, sizeof(ns->ipcns_nb)); ns->ipcns_nb.notifier_call = ipcns_callback; ns->ipcns_nb.priority = IPCNS_CALLBACK_PRI; - return blocking_notifier_chain_register(&ipcns_chain, &ns->ipcns_nb); + rc = blocking_notifier_chain_register(&ipcns_chain, &ns->ipcns_nb); + if (!rc) + ns->auto_msgmni = 1; + return rc; } int cond_register_ipcns_notifier(struct ipc_namespace *ns) { + int rc; + memset(&ns->ipcns_nb, 0, sizeof(ns->ipcns_nb)); ns->ipcns_nb.notifier_call = ipcns_callback; ns->ipcns_nb.priority = IPCNS_CALLBACK_PRI; - return blocking_notifier_chain_cond_register(&ipcns_chain, + rc = blocking_notifier_chain_cond_register(&ipcns_chain, &ns->ipcns_nb); + if (!rc) + ns->auto_msgmni = 1; + return rc; } -int unregister_ipcns_notifier(struct ipc_namespace *ns) +void unregister_ipcns_notifier(struct ipc_namespace *ns) { - return blocking_notifier_chain_unregister(&ipcns_chain, - &ns->ipcns_nb); + blocking_notifier_chain_unregister(&ipcns_chain, &ns->ipcns_nb); + ns->auto_msgmni = 0; } int ipcns_notify(unsigned long val) -- cgit v1.2.3