Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:16:53 +0100
> Nadia.Derbey@bull.net wrote:
> 
> 
>>[PATCH 07/08]
>>
>>This patch makes msgmni not recomputed anymore upon ipc namespace creation /
>>removal or memory add/remove, as soon as it has been set from userland.
>>
>>As soon as msgmni is explicitely set via procfs or sysctl(), the associated
>>callback routine is unregistered from the ipc namespace notifier chain.
>>
> 
> 
> The patch series looks pretty good.
> 
> 
>>===================================================================
>>--- linux-2.6.24-mm1.orig/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c	2008-02-08 16:07:15.000000000 +0100
>>+++ linux-2.6.24-mm1/ipc/ipc_sysctl.c	2008-02-08 16:08:32.000000000 +0100
>>@@ -35,6 +35,24 @@ static int proc_ipc_dointvec(ctl_table *
>> 	return proc_dointvec(&ipc_table, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos);
>> }
>> 
>>+static int proc_ipc_callback_dointvec(ctl_table *table, int write,
>>+	struct file *filp, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
>>+{
>>+	size_t lenp_bef = *lenp;
>>+	int rc;
>>+
>>+	rc = proc_ipc_dointvec(table, write, filp, buffer, lenp, ppos);
>>+
>>+	if (write && !rc && lenp_bef == *lenp)
>>+		/*
>>+		 * Tunable has successfully been changed from userland:
>>+		 * disable its automatic recomputing.
>>+		 */
>>+		unregister_ipcns_notifier(current->nsproxy->ipc_ns);
>>+
>>+	return rc;
>>+}
> 
> 
> If you haven't done so, could you please check that it all builds cleanly
> with CONFIG_PROCFS=n, and that all code which isn't needed if procfs is
> disabled is not present in the final binary?
> 
> 
> 
> 

Andrew,

it builds fine, modulo some changes in ipv4 and ipv6 (see attached patch 
- didn't find it in the hot fixes).

Regards,
Nadia