[PATCH 01/01] 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. This patch applies to 2.6.26-rc5-mm3. Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey --- include/linux/ipc_namespace.h | 1 ipc/ipc_sysctl.c | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- ipc/ipcns_notifier.c | 19 ++++++++-- 3 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.26-rc5-mm3/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.26-rc5-mm3.orig/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c 2008-06-16 09:12:57.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.26-rc5-mm3/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c 2008-07-03 13:29:50.000000000 +0200 @@ -27,15 +27,17 @@ static void *get_ipc(ctl_table *table) } /* - * Routine that is called when a tunable has successfully been changed by - * hand and it has a callback routine registered on the ipc namespace notifier - * chain: we don't want such tunables to be recomputed anymore upon memory - * add/remove or ipc namespace creation/removal. - * They can come back to a recomputable state by being set to a <0 value. + * Routine that is called when the file "auto_msgmni" has successfully been + * written. + * Two values are allowed: + * 0: unregister msgmni's callback routine from the ipc namespace notifier + * chain. This means that msgmni won't be recomputed anymore upon memory + * add/remove or ipc namespace creation/removal. + * 1: register back the callback routine. */ -static void tunable_set_callback(int val) +static void ipc_auto_callback(int val) { - if (val >= 0) + if (!val) unregister_ipcns_notifier(current->nsproxy->ipc_ns); else { /* @@ -71,7 +73,15 @@ static int proc_ipc_callback_dointvec(ct rc = proc_dointvec(&ipc_table, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos); if (write && !rc && lenp_bef == *lenp) - tunable_set_callback(*((int *)(ipc_table.data))); + /* + * Tunable has successfully been changed by hand and it has a + * callback routine registered on the ipc namespace notifier + * chain: we don't want this tunable to be recomputed anymore + * upon memory add/remove or ipc namespace creation/removal. + * It can come back to a recomputable state if the + * corresponding auto_ file is set to 1. + */ + unregister_ipcns_notifier(current->nsproxy->ipc_ns); return rc; } @@ -87,10 +97,39 @@ static int proc_ipc_doulongvec_minmax(ct lenp, ppos); } +static int proc_ipcauto_dointvec_minmax(ctl_table *table, int write, + struct file *filp, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) +{ + struct ctl_table ipc_table; + size_t lenp_bef = *lenp; + int oldval; + int rc; + + memcpy(&ipc_table, table, sizeof(ipc_table)); + ipc_table.data = get_ipc(table); + oldval = *((int *)(ipc_table.data)); + + rc = proc_dointvec_minmax(&ipc_table, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos); + + if (write && !rc && lenp_bef == *lenp) { + int newval = *((int *)(ipc_table.data)); + /* + * The file "auto_msgmni" has correctly been set. + * React by (un)registering the corresponding tunable, if the + * value has changed. + */ + if (newval != oldval) + ipc_auto_callback(newval); + } + + return rc; +} + #else #define proc_ipc_doulongvec_minmax NULL #define proc_ipc_dointvec NULL #define proc_ipc_callback_dointvec NULL +#define proc_ipcauto_dointvec_minmax NULL #endif #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL @@ -142,14 +181,11 @@ static int sysctl_ipc_registered_data(ct rc = sysctl_ipc_data(table, name, nlen, oldval, oldlenp, newval, newlen); - if (newval && newlen && rc > 0) { + if (newval && newlen && rc > 0) /* * Tunable has successfully been changed from userland */ - int *data = get_ipc(table); - - tunable_set_callback(*data); - } + unregister_ipcns_notifier(current->nsproxy->ipc_ns); return rc; } @@ -158,6 +194,9 @@ static int sysctl_ipc_registered_data(ct #define sysctl_ipc_registered_data NULL #endif +static int zero; +static int one = 1; + static struct ctl_table ipc_kern_table[] = { { .ctl_name = KERN_SHMMAX, @@ -222,6 +261,16 @@ static struct ctl_table ipc_kern_table[] .proc_handler = proc_ipc_dointvec, .strategy = sysctl_ipc_data, }, + { + .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED, + .procname = "auto_msgmni", + .data = &init_ipc_ns.auto_msgmni, + .maxlen = sizeof(int), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = proc_ipcauto_dointvec_minmax, + .extra1 = &zero, + .extra2 = &one, + }, {} }; Index: linux-2.6.26-rc5-mm3/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.26-rc5-mm3.orig/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h 2008-06-16 09:12:03.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.26-rc5-mm3/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h 2008-07-03 08:33:56.000000000 +0200 @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ struct ipc_namespace { int msg_ctlmni; atomic_t msg_bytes; atomic_t msg_hdrs; + int auto_msgmni; size_t shm_ctlmax; size_t shm_ctlall; Index: linux-2.6.26-rc5-mm3/ipc/ipcns_notifier.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.26-rc5-mm3.orig/ipc/ipcns_notifier.c 2008-06-16 09:12:57.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.26-rc5-mm3/ipc/ipcns_notifier.c 2008-07-03 11:38:07.000000000 +0200 @@ -55,25 +55,36 @@ static int ipcns_callback(struct notifie 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) { - return blocking_notifier_chain_unregister(&ipcns_chain, - &ns->ipcns_nb); + blocking_notifier_chain_unregister(&ipcns_chain, &ns->ipcns_nb); + ns->auto_msgmni = 0; + return 0; } int ipcns_notify(unsigned long val) -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/