This patch adds documentation about new "msg_next_id", "sem_next_id" and "shm_next_id" sysctls.
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <[email protected]> --- Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 2907ba6..51b953a 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
