docs: add information about ipc sysctls limitations
authorAlexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Mon, 15 Jan 2024 15:46:42 +0000 (15:46 +0000)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 23:38:52 +0000 (15:38 -0800)
commit9220066ea807e3efce21476bffcac16743e9db22
tree03b0331dad1db446d68ce32e15fb376411955999
parent50ec499b9a43e46200c9f7b7d723ab2e4af540b3
docs: add information about ipc sysctls limitations

After 25b21cb2f6d6 ("[PATCH] IPC namespace core") and 4e9823111bdc
("[PATCH] IPC namespace - shm") the shared memory page count stopped being
global and started counting per ipc namespace.  The documentation and
shmget(2) still says that shmall is a global option.

shmget(2):

SHMALL System-wide limit on the total amount of shared memory, measured in
units of the system page size.  On Linux, this limit can be read and
modified via /proc/sys/kernel/shmall.

I think the changes made in 2006 should be documented.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/09e99911071766958af488beb4e8a728a4f12135.1705333426.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ede20ddf7be48b93e8084c3be2e920841ee1a641.1663756794.git.legion@kernel.org
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst