Name

ipc_init — initialise IPC subsystem

Synopsis

int __init ipc_init (  void);

Arguments

void

no arguments

Description

The various system5 IPC resources (semaphores, messages and shared memory) are initialised A callback routine is registered into the memory hotplug notifier

chain

since msgmni scales to lowmem this callback routine will be called upon successful memory add / remove to recompute msmgni.