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).

[[email protected]: checkpatch fixes]
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <[email protected]>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Stanislav Kinsbursky 2013-01-04 15:34:50 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 03f5956680
5 changed files with 65 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ void __init ipc_init_proc_interface(const char *path, const char *header,
#define IPC_SHM_IDS 2
#define ipcid_to_idx(id) ((id) % SEQ_MULTIPLIER)
#define ipcid_to_seqx(id) ((id) / SEQ_MULTIPLIER)
/* must be called with ids->rw_mutex acquired for writing */
int ipc_addid(struct ipc_ids *, struct kern_ipc_perm *, int);