ipc: add sysctl to specify desired next object id

Add 3 new variables and sysctls to tune them (by one "next_id" variable
for messages, semaphores and shared memory respectively).  This variable
can be used to set desired id for next allocated IPC object.  By default
it's equal to -1 and old behaviour is preserved.  If this variable is
non-negative, then desired idr will be extracted from it and used as a
start value to search for free IDR slot.

Notes:

1) this patch doesn't guarantee that the new object will have desired
   id.  So it's up to user space how to handle new object with wrong id.

2) After a sucessful id allocation attempt, "next_id" will be set back
   to -1 (if it was non-negative).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Stanislav Kinsbursky 2013-01-04 15:34:50 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 9afdacda02
commit 03f5956680
5 changed files with 65 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -158,6 +158,9 @@ static int proc_ipcauto_dointvec_minmax(ctl_table *table, int write,
static int zero;
static int one = 1;
#ifdef CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
static int int_max = INT_MAX;
#endif
static struct ctl_table ipc_kern_table[] = {
{
@ -227,6 +230,35 @@ static struct ctl_table ipc_kern_table[] = {
.extra1 = &zero,
.extra2 = &one,
},
#ifdef CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
{
.procname = "sem_next_id",
.data = &init_ipc_ns.ids[IPC_SEM_IDS].next_id,
.maxlen = sizeof(init_ipc_ns.ids[IPC_SEM_IDS].next_id),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_ipc_dointvec_minmax,
.extra1 = &zero,
.extra2 = &int_max,
},
{
.procname = "msg_next_id",
.data = &init_ipc_ns.ids[IPC_MSG_IDS].next_id,
.maxlen = sizeof(init_ipc_ns.ids[IPC_MSG_IDS].next_id),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_ipc_dointvec_minmax,
.extra1 = &zero,
.extra2 = &int_max,
},
{
.procname = "shm_next_id",
.data = &init_ipc_ns.ids[IPC_SHM_IDS].next_id,
.maxlen = sizeof(init_ipc_ns.ids[IPC_SHM_IDS].next_id),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_ipc_dointvec_minmax,
.extra1 = &zero,
.extra2 = &int_max,
},
#endif
{}
};