ipc: recompute msgmni on memory add / remove

Introduce the registration of a callback routine that recomputes msg_ctlmni
upon memory add / remove.

A single notifier block is registered in the hotplug memory chain for all the
ipc namespaces.

Since the ipc namespaces are not linked together, they have their own
notification chain: one notifier_block is defined per ipc namespace.

Each time an ipc namespace is created (removed) it registers (unregisters) its
notifier block in (from) the ipcns chain.  The callback routine registered in
the memory chain invokes the ipcns notifier chain with the IPCNS_LOWMEM event.
 Each callback routine registered in the ipcns namespace, in turn, recomputes
msgmni for the owning namespace.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ipc/util.h b/ipc/util.h
index f37d160c98fe..0e3d79037a2a 100644
--- a/ipc/util.h
+++ b/ipc/util.h
@@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ extern void free_msg(struct msg_msg *msg);
 extern struct msg_msg *load_msg(const void __user *src, int len);
 extern int store_msg(void __user *dest, struct msg_msg *msg, int len);
 
+extern void recompute_msgmni(struct ipc_namespace *);
+
 static inline int ipc_buildid(int id, int seq)
 {
         return SEQ_MULTIPLIER * seq + id;