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From: Albert Vaca Cintora <albertvaka@gmail.com>
To: albertvaka@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	rdunlap@infradead.org, mingo@kernel.org, jack@suse.cz,
	ebiederm@xmission.com, nsaenzjulienne@suse.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, mbrugger@suse.com
Subject: [PATCH v3 3/3] Documentation for /proc/sys/user/*_inotify_*
Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 21:50:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190531195016.4430-3-albertvaka@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190531195016.4430-1-albertvaka@gmail.com>

Added docs for the existing and new inotify-related files

Signed-off-by: Albert Vaca Cintora <albertvaka@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/sysctl/user.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/user.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/user.txt
index a5882865836e..99c288d39cf6 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/user.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/user.txt
@@ -30,11 +30,26 @@ user namespace does not allow a user to escape their current limits.
 
 Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/user:
 
+- current_inotify_watches
+
+  The number of inotify watches in use in the current user namespace.
+  Calling inotify_add_watch() increases this.
+
 - max_cgroup_namespaces
 
   The maximum number of cgroup namespaces that any user in the current
   user namespace may create.
 
+- max_inotify_instances
+
+  The maximum number of inotify instances that any user in the current
+  user namespace may create. Calling inotify_init() uses an instance.
+
+- max_inotify_watches
+
+  The maximum number of inotify watches that any user in the current
+  user namespace may create. Calling inotify_add_watch() uses a watch.
+
 - max_ipc_namespaces
 
   The maximum number of ipc namespaces that any user in the current
-- 
2.21.0


      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-31 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-31 19:50 [PATCH v3 1/3] Move *_ucounts functions above Albert Vaca Cintora
2019-05-31 19:50 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] kernel/ucounts: expose count of inotify watches in use Albert Vaca Cintora
2019-06-01  0:00   ` Andrew Morton
2019-06-01 18:20     ` Albert Vaca Cintora
2019-10-16 18:47       ` Albert Vaca Cintora
2019-05-31 19:50 ` Albert Vaca Cintora [this message]

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