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authorDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>2013-07-08 16:01:09 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-10-18 07:45:46 -0700
commit34b2092419a3f73bb69c55247fe71ca4941faad2 (patch)
tree0a1787155c5a90ce77afac69c0b6c78988119c27 /ipc/util.c
parent7276dd0042b05ae6409274664ed8747f4dcd2a30 (diff)
ipc: move rcu lock out of ipc_addid
commit dbfcd91f06f0e2d5564b2fd184e9c2a43675f9ab upstream. This patchset continues the work that began in the sysv ipc semaphore scaling series, see https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/20/546 Just like semaphores used to be, sysv shared memory and msg queues also abuse the ipc lock, unnecessarily holding it for operations such as permission and security checks. This patchset mostly deals with mqueues, and while shared mem can be done in a very similar way, I want to get these patches out in the open first. It also does some pending cleanups, mostly focused on the two level locking we have in ipc code, taking care of ipc_addid() and ipcctl_pre_down_nolock() - yes there are still functions that need to be updated as well. This patch: Make all callers explicitly take and release the RCU read lock. This addresses the two level locking seen in newary(), newseg() and newqueue(). For the last two, explicitly unlock the ipc object and the rcu lock, instead of calling the custom shm_unlock and msg_unlock functions. The next patch will deal with the open coded locking for ->perm.lock Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'ipc/util.c')
-rw-r--r--ipc/util.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/util.c b/ipc/util.c
index 809ec5ec8122..399821ac0a9a 100644
--- a/ipc/util.c
+++ b/ipc/util.c
@@ -246,9 +246,8 @@ int ipc_get_maxid(struct ipc_ids *ids)
* is returned. The 'new' entry is returned in a locked state on success.
* On failure the entry is not locked and a negative err-code is returned.
*
- * Called with ipc_ids.rw_mutex held as a writer.
+ * Called with writer ipc_ids.rw_mutex held.
*/
-
int ipc_addid(struct ipc_ids* ids, struct kern_ipc_perm* new, int size)
{
kuid_t euid;