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authorVasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>2011-07-26 16:08:48 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-07-26 16:49:44 -0700
commitb34a6b1da371ed8af1221459a18c67970f7e3d53 (patch)
tree5addc850de13623b172395b9d0d7d670930fa6b3 /include/linux/shm.h
parentd40dcdb0172a1ba853464983a059fb45e0aaf61a (diff)
ipc: introduce shm_rmid_forced sysctl
Add support for the shm_rmid_forced sysctl. If set to 1, all shared memory objects in current ipc namespace will be automatically forced to use IPC_RMID. The POSIX way of handling shmem allows one to create shm objects and call shmdt(), leaving shm object associated with no process, thus consuming memory not counted via rlimits. With shm_rmid_forced=1 the shared memory object is counted at least for one process, so OOM killer may effectively kill the fat process holding the shared memory. It obviously breaks POSIX - some programs relying on the feature would stop working. So set shm_rmid_forced=1 only if you're sure nobody uses "orphaned" memory. Use shm_rmid_forced=0 by default for compatability reasons. The feature was previously impemented in -ow as a configure option. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix documentation, per Randy] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: readability/conventionality tweaks] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix shm_rmid_forced/shm_forced_rmid confusion, use standard comment layout] Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/shm.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/shm.h4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/shm.h b/include/linux/shm.h
index eca6235a46c0..7d27ffde0190 100644
--- a/include/linux/shm.h
+++ b/include/linux/shm.h
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ struct shmid_kernel /* private to the kernel */
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSVIPC
long do_shmat(int shmid, char __user *shmaddr, int shmflg, unsigned long *addr);
extern int is_file_shm_hugepages(struct file *file);
+extern void exit_shm(struct task_struct *task);
#else
static inline long do_shmat(int shmid, char __user *shmaddr,
int shmflg, unsigned long *addr)
@@ -116,6 +117,9 @@ static inline int is_file_shm_hugepages(struct file *file)
{
return 0;
}
+static inline void exit_shm(struct task_struct *task)
+{
+}
#endif
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */