From b492e95be0ae672922f4734acf3f5d35c30be948 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 21:03:16 +0200 Subject: pipe: set lower and upper limit on max pages in the pipe page array We need at least two to guarantee proper POSIX behaviour, so never allow a smaller limit than that. Also expose a /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-pages sysctl file that allows root to define a sane upper limit. Make it default to 16 times the default size, which is 16 pages. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- kernel/sysctl.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 8686b0f5fc12..c649d1c5fe09 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -1423,6 +1424,14 @@ static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = { .child = binfmt_misc_table, }, #endif + { + .procname = "pipe-max-pages", + .data = &pipe_max_pages, + .maxlen = sizeof(int), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec_minmax, + .extra1 = &two, + }, /* * NOTE: do not add new entries to this table unless you have read * Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b