From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
To: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] TTY, devpts: document pty count limiting
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 13:08:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151021100854.7888.90252.stgit@buzz> (raw)
Logic was changed in kernel 3.4 by commit e9aba5158a80 ("tty: rework pty
count limiting") but still isn't documented. Better late than never.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
---
Documentation/filesystems/devpts.txt | 9 +++++++++
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/devpts.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/devpts.txt
index 68dffd87f9b7..30d2fcb32f72 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/devpts.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/devpts.txt
@@ -51,6 +51,15 @@ where 'ns_exec -cm /bin/bash' calls clone() with CLONE_NEWNS flag and execs
/bin/bash in the child process. A pty created by the sshd is not visible in
the original mount of /dev/pts.
+Total count of pty pairs in all instances is limited by sysctls:
+kernel.pty.max = 4096 - global limit
+kernel.pty.reserve = 1024 - reserve for initial instance
+kernel.pty.nr - current count of ptys
+
+Per-instance limit could be set by adding mount option "max=<count>".
+This feature was added in kernel 3.4 together with sysctl kernel.pty.reserve.
+In kernels older than 3.4 sysctl kernel.pty.max works as per-instance limit.
+
User-space changes
------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 6fccb69c03e7..01a42021c2e5 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
- printk_delay
- printk_ratelimit
- printk_ratelimit_burst
+- pty/
- randomize_va_space
- real-root-dev ==> Documentation/initrd.txt
- reboot-cmd [ SPARC only ]
@@ -683,6 +684,12 @@ send before ratelimiting kicks in.
==============================================================
+pty/:
+
+See Documentation/filesystems/devpts.txt.
+
+==============================================================
+
randomize_va_space:
This option can be used to select the type of process address
next reply other threads:[~2015-10-21 10:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-21 10:08 Konstantin Khlebnikov [this message]
2015-10-21 17:04 ` [PATCH] TTY, devpts: document pty count limiting Greg KH
2015-10-22 4:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-10-22 14:33 ` Greg KH
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