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| author | Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> | 2005-11-07 00:59:27 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-11-07 07:53:37 -0800 |
| commit | bf8f972d3a1daf969cf44f64cc36d53bfd76441f (patch) | |
| tree | c3f0ac2f789c695d13858171144aa5f4ecdc84c1 /ipc | |
| parent | d8ba3b731086bcae5468f9ea509f39a921b3f9a6 (diff) | |
[PATCH] SHM_NORESERVE flags for shmget()
Add SHM_NORESERVE functionality similar to MAP_NORESERVE for shared memory
segments.
This is mainly to avoid abuse of OVERCOMMIT_ALWAYS and this flag is ignored
for OVERCOMMIT_NEVER.
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'ipc')
| -rw-r--r-- | ipc/shm.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c index b58c651d31a..587d836d80d 100644 --- a/ipc/shm.c +++ b/ipc/shm.c @@ -212,8 +212,16 @@ static int newseg (key_t key, int shmflg, size_t size) file = hugetlb_zero_setup(size); shp->mlock_user = current->user; } else { + int acctflag = VM_ACCOUNT; + /* + * Do not allow no accounting for OVERCOMMIT_NEVER, even + * if it's asked for. + */ + if ((shmflg & SHM_NORESERVE) && + sysctl_overcommit_memory != OVERCOMMIT_NEVER) + acctflag = 0; sprintf (name, "SYSV%08x", key); - file = shmem_file_setup(name, size, VM_ACCOUNT); + file = shmem_file_setup(name, size, acctflag); } error = PTR_ERR(file); if (IS_ERR(file)) |