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From: Andrew Vagin <avagin@parallels.com>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipc: always handle a new value of auto_msgmni
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 10:42:55 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140819064255.GA14360@paralelels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53EFBF1C.5060407@colorfullife.com>

On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 10:29:16PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On 08/14/2014 03:34 PM, Andrew Vagin wrote:
> >On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:37:45AM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> >>Hi Andrey,
> >>
> >>[...]
> >>What do you use auto_msgmni for?
> >We disable it to check that criu restores a value of the msgmni sysctl correctly.
> >
> >https://github.com/xemul/criu/blob/master/test/zdtm/live/static/ipc_namespace.c
> Thanks for the link, if I see it right, my patch would break your code:
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=140782863804950
> 
> It removes auto_msgmni - and
> What do you think, should I leave auto_msgmni as a stale variable, perhaps
> with a pr_info() that it doesn't have any effect?

Yes, you should. For example "criu restore" will start failing, if you remove
auto_msgmni.
> 
> 
> --
>     Manfred

      reply	other threads:[~2014-08-19  6:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-13 13:21 [PATCH] ipc: always handle a new value of auto_msgmni Andrey Vagin
2014-08-14  9:37 ` Manfred Spraul
2014-08-14 13:34   ` Andrew Vagin
2014-08-16 20:29     ` Manfred Spraul
2014-08-19  6:42       ` Andrew Vagin [this message]

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