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 --- include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h b/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h index 65f4282fcbaf..16de3933c45e 100644 --- a/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h +++ b/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h @@ -139,6 +139,8 @@ void pipe_lock(struct pipe_inode_info *); void pipe_unlock(struct pipe_inode_info *); void pipe_double_lock(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct pipe_inode_info *); +extern unsigned int pipe_max_pages; + /* Drop the inode semaphore and wait for a pipe event, atomically */ void pipe_wait(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe); -- cgit v1.2.3