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authorWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>2019-05-15 01:46:29 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-05-15 05:52:52 +0300
commit5ac893b8cb10fe2a47a77780d37f9bf5b142854b (patch)
tree9d6dcab9f8540b997090f6870a0470cf6bfd06cc /ipc/ipc_sysctl.c
parenta5091fda4e3c202aeb1728a86d0fcd20fd0f4f5e (diff)
downloadlinux-5ac893b8cb10fe2a47a77780d37f9bf5b142854b.tar.xz
ipc: allow boot time extension of IPCMNI from 32k to 16M
The maximum number of unique System V IPC identifiers was limited to 32k. That limit should be big enough for most use cases. However, there are some users out there requesting for more, especially those that are migrating from Solaris which uses 24 bits for unique identifiers. To satisfy the need of those users, a new boot time kernel option "ipcmni_extend" is added to extend the IPCMNI value to 16M. This is a 512X increase which should be big enough for users out there that need a large number of unique IPC identifier. The use of this new option will change the pattern of the IPC identifiers returned by functions like shmget(2). An application that depends on such pattern may not work properly. So it should only be used if the users really need more than 32k of unique IPC numbers. This new option does have the side effect of reducing the maximum number of unique sequence numbers from 64k down to 128. So it is a trade-off. The computation of a new IPC id is not done in the performance critical path. So a little bit of additional overhead shouldn't have any real performance impact. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190329204930.21620-1-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'ipc/ipc_sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r--ipc/ipc_sysctl.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c b/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c
index 49f9bf4ffc7f..73b7782eccf4 100644
--- a/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c
+++ b/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c
@@ -120,7 +120,8 @@ static int proc_ipc_sem_dointvec(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
static int zero;
static int one = 1;
static int int_max = INT_MAX;
-static int ipc_mni = IPCMNI;
+int ipc_mni = IPCMNI;
+int ipc_mni_shift = IPCMNI_SHIFT;
static struct ctl_table ipc_kern_table[] = {
{
@@ -246,3 +247,12 @@ static int __init ipc_sysctl_init(void)
}
device_initcall(ipc_sysctl_init);
+
+static int __init ipc_mni_extend(char *str)
+{
+ ipc_mni = IPCMNI_EXTEND;
+ ipc_mni_shift = IPCMNI_EXTEND_SHIFT;
+ pr_info("IPCMNI extended to %d.\n", ipc_mni);
+ return 0;
+}
+early_param("ipcmni_extend", ipc_mni_extend);