Name

ipc_init — initialise ipc subsystem

Synopsis

int ipc_init ( void);
 

Arguments

void

no arguments

Description

The various sysv 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.