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yaml
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r: 130397
b: refs/heads/master
c: 9df04e1
h: refs/heads/master
i:
  130395: 3d56f9a
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 3095eb87bb36ae880608fe3fc46cfd59ced1f319
+refs/heads/master: 9df04e1f25effde823a600e755b51475d438f56b

trunk/fs/eventpoll.c

@@ -234,8 +234,6 @@ struct ep_pqueue {
 /*
  * Configuration options available inside /proc/sys/fs/epoll/
  */
-/* Maximum number of epoll devices, per user */
-static int max_user_instances __read_mostly;
 /* Maximum number of epoll watched descriptors, per user */
 static int max_user_watches __read_mostly;
 
@@ -260,14 +258,6 @@ static struct kmem_cache *pwq_cache __read_mostly;
 static int zero;
 
 ctl_table epoll_table[] = {
-	{
-		.procname	= "max_user_instances",
-		.data		= &max_user_instances,
-		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
-		.mode		= 0644,
-		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec_minmax,
-		.extra1		= &zero,
-	},
 	{
 		.procname	= "max_user_watches",
 		.data		= &max_user_watches,
@@ -491,7 +481,6 @@ static void ep_free(struct eventpoll *ep)
 
 	mutex_unlock(&epmutex);
 	mutex_destroy(&ep->mtx);
-	atomic_dec(&ep->user->epoll_devs);
 	free_uid(ep->user);
 	kfree(ep);
 }
@@ -581,10 +570,6 @@ static int ep_alloc(struct eventpoll **pep)
 	struct eventpoll *ep;
 
 	user = get_current_user();
-	error = -EMFILE;
-	if (unlikely(atomic_read(&user->epoll_devs) >=
-			max_user_instances))
-		goto free_uid;
 	error = -ENOMEM;
 	ep = kzalloc(sizeof(*ep), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (unlikely(!ep))
@@ -1141,7 +1126,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(epoll_create1, int, flags)
 			      flags & O_CLOEXEC);
 	if (fd < 0)
 		ep_free(ep);
-	atomic_inc(&ep->user->epoll_devs);
 
 error_return:
 	DNPRINTK(3, (KERN_INFO "[%p] eventpoll: sys_epoll_create(%d) = %d\n",
@@ -1366,8 +1350,10 @@ static int __init eventpoll_init(void)
 	struct sysinfo si;
 
 	si_meminfo(&si);
-	max_user_instances = 128;
-	max_user_watches = (((si.totalram - si.totalhigh) / 32) << PAGE_SHIFT) /
+	/*
+	 * Allows top 4% of lomem to be allocated for epoll watches (per user).
+	 */
+	max_user_watches = (((si.totalram - si.totalhigh) / 25) << PAGE_SHIFT) /
 		EP_ITEM_COST;
 
 	/* Initialize the structure used to perform safe poll wait head wake ups */

trunk/include/linux/sched.h

@@ -630,7 +630,6 @@ struct user_struct {
 	atomic_t inotify_devs;	/* How many inotify devs does this user have opened? */
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_EPOLL
-	atomic_t epoll_devs;	/* The number of epoll descriptors currently open */
 	atomic_t epoll_watches;	/* The number of file descriptors currently watched */
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE