This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipc: introduce ipc object locking helpers
to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ipc-introduce-ipc-object-locking-helpers.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 1ca7003ab41152d673d9e359632283d05294f3d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 16:01:10 -0700
Subject: ipc: introduce ipc object locking helpers
From: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
commit 1ca7003ab41152d673d9e359632283d05294f3d6 upstream.
Simple helpers around the (kern_ipc_perm *)->lock spinlock.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
ipc/util.h | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/ipc/util.h
+++ b/ipc/util.h
@@ -159,23 +159,33 @@ static inline int ipc_checkid(struct ker
return uid / SEQ_MULTIPLIER != ipcp->seq;
}
-static inline void ipc_lock_by_ptr(struct kern_ipc_perm *perm)
+static inline void ipc_lock_object(struct kern_ipc_perm *perm)
{
- rcu_read_lock();
spin_lock(&perm->lock);
}
-static inline void ipc_unlock(struct kern_ipc_perm *perm)
+static inline void ipc_unlock_object(struct kern_ipc_perm *perm)
{
spin_unlock(&perm->lock);
- rcu_read_unlock();
}
-static inline void ipc_lock_object(struct kern_ipc_perm *perm)
+static inline void ipc_assert_locked_object(struct kern_ipc_perm *perm)
{
+ assert_spin_locked(&perm->lock);
+}
+
+static inline void ipc_lock_by_ptr(struct kern_ipc_perm *perm)
+{
+ rcu_read_lock();
spin_lock(&perm->lock);
}
+static inline void ipc_unlock(struct kern_ipc_perm *perm)
+{
+ spin_unlock(&perm->lock);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+}
+
struct kern_ipc_perm *ipc_lock_check(struct ipc_ids *ids, int id);
struct kern_ipc_perm *ipc_obtain_object_check(struct ipc_ids *ids, int id);
int ipcget(struct ipc_namespace *ns, struct ipc_ids *ids,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.10/ipc-msg-introduce-lockless-functions-to-obtain-the-ipc-object.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-msg-shorten-critical-region-in-msgctl_down.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-remove-unused-functions.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-msg-introduce-msgctl_nolock.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-move-rcu-lock-out-of-ipc_addid.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-msg-shorten-critical-region-in-msgsnd.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-introduce-ipc-object-locking-helpers.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-msg-shorten-critical-region-in-msgrcv.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-msg-make-msgctl_nolock-lockless.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-move-locking-out-of-ipcctl_pre_down_nolock.patch
queue-3.10/ipc-close-open-coded-spin-lock-calls.patch
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