Davidlohr Bueso a5daa172ff ipc: document general ipc locking scheme ...

commit 05603c44a7 upstream.

As suggested by Andrew, add a generic initial locking scheme used
throughout all sysv ipc mechanisms.  Documenting the ids rwsem, how rcu
can be enough to do the initial checks and when to actually acquire the
kern_ipc_perm.lock spinlock.

I found that adding it to util.c was generic enough.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.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>

2013-10-18 07:45:48 -07:00

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compat_mq.c

ipc: initialize structure memory to zero for compat functions

2010-10-27 18:03:13 -07:00

compat.c

get rid of union semop in sys_semctl(2) arguments

2013-03-05 15:14:16 -05:00

ipc_sysctl.c

ipc: add sysctl to specify desired next object id

2013-01-04 16:11:45 -08:00

ipcns_notifier.c

ipc: do not use a negative value to re-enable msgmni automatic recomputing

2008-07-25 10:53:42 -07:00

Makefile

Add generic sys_ipc wrapper

2010-03-12 15:52:32 -08:00

mq_sysctl.c

mqueue: separate mqueue default value from maximum value

2012-05-31 17:49:31 -07:00

mqueue.c

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

2013-03-28 13:43:46 -07:00

msg.c

ipc,msg: drop msg_unlock

2013-10-18 07:45:48 -07:00

msgutil.c

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2013-05-01 17:51:54 -07:00

namespace.c

ipc: rename ids->rw_mutex

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sem.c

ipc: rename ids->rw_mutex

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shm.c

ipc: rename ids->rw_mutex

2013-10-18 07:45:47 -07:00

syscall.c

get rid of union semop in sys_semctl(2) arguments

2013-03-05 15:14:16 -05:00

util.c

ipc: document general ipc locking scheme

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util.h

ipc: rename ids->rw_mutex

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