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    tty: rework pty count limiting · e9aba515
    Konstantin Khlebnikov authored
    
    
    After adding devpts multiple-insrances sysctl kernel.pty.max limit pty count for
    each devpts instance independently, while kernel.pty.nr shows total pty count.
    
    This patch restores sysctl kernel.pty.max as global limit (4096 by default),
    adds pty reseve for main devpts (mounted without "newinstance" argument),
    and new sysctl to tune it: kernel.pty.reserve (1024 by default)
    
    Also it adds devpts mount option "max=%d" to limit pty count for each devpts
    instance independently. (by default NR_UNIX98_PTY_MAX == 2^20)
    
    Thus devpts instances in containers cannot eat up all available pty even if we didn't
    set any limits, while with "max" argument we can adjust limits more precisely.
    
    Plus, now open("/dev/ptmx") return -ENOSPC in case lack of pty indexes,
    this is more informative than -EIO.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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