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Subject[PATCH 2/3] epoll: allow 0 for "unlimited" on epoll limits
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If you set 0 as the limit for max_user_watches or max_user_instances,
then treat them as unlimited.

Note - this doesn't disable the accounting, just the limit test.

Signed-off-by: Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>
---
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 4 ++++
fs/eventpoll.c | 8 ++++----
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 4677abf..c4debd3 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -2244,6 +2244,8 @@ If you are running a heavily loaded Postfix or Apache server, you may need
to set this higher. Both these servers run an epoll instance per child
process.

+Setting max_user_instances to '0' makes it unlimited.
+
max_user_watches
----------------

@@ -2256,6 +2258,8 @@ on a 64bit one.
The current default value for max_user_watches is the 1/32 of the available
low memory, divided for the "watch" cost in bytes.

+Setting max_user_watches to '0' makes it unlimited.
+

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index 16eb817..c6d5c1d 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -582,8 +582,8 @@ static int ep_alloc(struct eventpoll **pep)

user = get_current_user();
error = -EMFILE;
- if (unlikely(atomic_read(&user->epoll_devs) >=
- max_user_instances))
+ if (unlikely(max_user_instances &&
+ (max_user_instances < atomic_read(&user->epoll_devs))))
goto free_uid;
error = -ENOMEM;
ep = kzalloc(sizeof(*ep), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -761,8 +761,8 @@ static int ep_insert(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epoll_event *event,
struct epitem *epi;
struct ep_pqueue epq;

- if (unlikely(atomic_read(&ep->user->epoll_watches) >=
- max_user_watches))
+ if (unlikely(max_user_watches &&
+ (max_user_watches < atomic_read(&ep->user->epoll_watches))))
return -ENOSPC;
if (!(epi = kmem_cache_alloc(epi_cache, GFP_KERNEL)))
return -ENOMEM;
--
1.5.6.3


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