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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-10-23 16:28:39 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-10-23 16:49:34 -0400
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts: drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c include/net/dst.h Trivial merge conflicts, both were overlapping changes. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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* Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
*
* General sysv ipc locking scheme:
- * when doing ipc id lookups, take the ids->rwsem
- * rcu_read_lock()
- * obtain the ipc object (kern_ipc_perm)
- * perform security, capabilities, auditing and permission checks, etc.
- * acquire the ipc lock (kern_ipc_perm.lock) throught ipc_lock_object()
- * perform data updates (ie: SET, RMID, LOCK/UNLOCK commands)
+ * rcu_read_lock()
+ * obtain the ipc object (kern_ipc_perm) by looking up the id in an idr
+ * tree.
+ * - perform initial checks (capabilities, auditing and permission,
+ * etc).
+ * - perform read-only operations, such as STAT, INFO commands.
+ * acquire the ipc lock (kern_ipc_perm.lock) through
+ * ipc_lock_object()
+ * - perform data updates, such as SET, RMID commands and
+ * mechanism-specific operations (semop/semtimedop,
+ * msgsnd/msgrcv, shmat/shmdt).
+ * drop the ipc lock, through ipc_unlock_object().
+ * rcu_read_unlock()
+ *
+ * The ids->rwsem must be taken when:
+ * - creating, removing and iterating the existing entries in ipc
+ * identifier sets.
+ * - iterating through files under /proc/sysvipc/
+ *
+ * Note that sems have a special fast path that avoids kern_ipc_perm.lock -
+ * see sem_lock().
*/
#include <linux/mm.h>
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