ipc: document the new auto_msgmni proc file

[linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git] / Documentation / filesystems / proc.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 64557821ee5984f5babe336f701f172b8602a4dc..394eb2cc1c39b8fa863459b796bc95a427957013 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -1339,6 +1339,25 @@ Enables/Disables the protection of the per-process proc entries "maps" and
 "smaps".  When enabled, the contents of these files are visible only to
 readers that are allowed to ptrace() the given process.
 
+msgmni
+------
+
+Maximum number of message queue ids on the system.
+This value scales to the amount of lowmem. It is automatically recomputed
+upon memory add/remove or ipc namespace creation/removal.
+When a value is written into this file, msgmni's value becomes fixed, i.e. it
+is not recomputed anymore when one of the above events occurs.
+Use auto_msgmni to change this behavior.
+
+auto_msgmni
+-----------
+
+Enables/Disables automatic recomputing of msgmni upon memory add/remove or
+upon ipc namespace creation/removal (see the msgmni description above).
+Echoing "1" into this file enables msgmni automatic recomputing.
+Echoing "0" turns it off.
+auto_msgmni default value is 1.
+
 
 2.4 /proc/sys/vm - The virtual memory subsystem
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