Re: [PATCH] ipc: optimize semget/shmget/msgget for lots of keys

[Davidlohr Bueso]

On Thu, 03 Aug 2017, Guillaume Knispel wrote:

> In linux/init.h I saw that a pure_initcall is reserved to only
> initialize variables and must have no dependency on anything else;
> I interpreted that, + "pure" in the name, thinking we should not e.g.
> allocate in a pure_initcall, however I see that net_ns_init() calls
> kmem_cache_create() and others, so maybe we can keep ipc_ns_init() as
> a pure_initcall?

Yeah, I don't see this as a limitation wrt link order. Among others,
filelocks also do this. Not to mention futexes with alloc_large_system_hash().
So lets just keep this as is.

Thanks,
Davidlohr