From 555f7647e7722fe249a8551ee37c1773fb7667af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stanislav Kinsbursky Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:18:57 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: update sysctl/kernel.txt Add documentation about new "msg_next_id", "sem_next_id" and "shm_next_id" sysctls. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky Cc: Serge Hallyn Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Al Viro Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Michael Kerrisk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 2907ba6c3607..51b953a1b149 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel: - l2cr [ PPC only ] - modprobe ==> Documentation/debugging-modules.txt - modules_disabled +- msg_next_id [ sysv ipc ] - msgmax - msgmnb - msgmni @@ -62,7 +63,9 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel: - rtsig-max - rtsig-nr - sem +- sem_next_id [ sysv ipc ] - sg-big-buff [ generic SCSI device (sg) ] +- shm_next_id [ sysv ipc ] - shm_rmid_forced - shmall - shmmax [ sysv ipc ] @@ -320,6 +323,22 @@ to false. ============================================================== +msg_next_id, sem_next_id, and shm_next_id: + +These three toggles allows to specify desired id for next allocated IPC +object: message, semaphore or shared memory respectively. + +By default they are equal to -1, which means generic allocation logic. +Possible values to set are in range {0..INT_MAX}. + +Notes: +1) kernel doesn't guarantee, that new object will have desired id. So, +it's up to userspace, how to handle an object with "wrong" id. +2) Toggle with non-default value will be set back to -1 by kernel after +successful IPC object allocation. + +============================================================== + nmi_watchdog: Enables/Disables the NMI watchdog on x86 systems. When the value is -- 2.39.5