TTY, devpts: document pty count limiting
Logic has been changed in kernel 3.4 by commit e9aba5158a
("tty: rework pty count limiting") but still not documented.
Sysctl kernel.pty.max works as global limit, kernel.pty.reserve ptys
are reserved for initial devpts instance (mounted without "newinstance").
Per-instance limit also could be set by mount option "max=%d".
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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@ -51,6 +51,15 @@ where 'ns_exec -cm /bin/bash' calls clone() with CLONE_NEWNS flag and execs
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/bin/bash in the child process. A pty created by the sshd is not visible in
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the original mount of /dev/pts.
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Total count of pty pairs in all instances is limited by sysctls:
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kernel.pty.max = 4096 - global limit
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kernel.pty.reserve = 1024 - reserve for initial instance
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kernel.pty.nr - current count of ptys
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Per-instance limit could be set by adding mount option "max=<count>".
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This feature was added in kernel 3.4 together with sysctl kernel.pty.reserve.
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In kernels older than 3.4 sysctl kernel.pty.max works as per-instance limit.
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User-space changes
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@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
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- printk_delay
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- printk_ratelimit
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- printk_ratelimit_burst
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- pty ==> Documentation/filesystems/devpts.txt
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- randomize_va_space
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- real-root-dev ==> Documentation/initrd.txt
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- reboot-cmd [ SPARC only ]
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