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Davidlohr Bueso
3ab08fe204 ipc: remove braces for single statements
Deal with checkpatch messages:
     WARNING: braces {} are not necessary for single statement blocks

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-27 21:02:39 -08:00
Davidlohr Bueso
8001c85810 ipc: standardize code comments
IPC commenting style is all over the place, *specially* in util.c.  This
patch orders things a bit.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-27 21:02:39 -08:00
Manfred Spraul
239521f31d ipc: whitespace cleanup
The ipc code does not adhere the typical linux coding style.
This patch fixes lots of simple whitespace errors.

- mostly autogenerated by
  scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --fix \
	--types=pointer_location,spacing,space_before_tab
- one manual fixup (keep structure members tab-aligned)
- removal of additional space_before_tab that were not found by --fix

Tested with some of my msg and sem test apps.

Andrew: Could you include it in -mm and move it towards Linus' tree?

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Suggested-by: Li Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-27 21:02:39 -08:00
Rafael Aquini
72a8ff2f92 ipc: change kern_ipc_perm.deleted type to bool
struct kern_ipc_perm.deleted is meant to be used as a boolean toggle, and
the changes introduced by this patch are just to make the case explicit.

Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.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>
2014-01-27 21:02:39 -08:00
Rafael Aquini
0f3d2b0135 ipc: introduce ipc_valid_object() helper to sort out IPC_RMID races
After the locking semantics for the SysV IPC API got improved, a couple
of IPC_RMID race windows were opened because we ended up dropping the
'kern_ipc_perm.deleted' check performed way down in ipc_lock().  The
spotted races got sorted out by re-introducing the old test within the
racy critical sections.

This patch introduces ipc_valid_object() to consolidate the way we cope
with IPC_RMID races by using the same abstraction across the API
implementation.

Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.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>
2014-01-27 21:02:39 -08:00
Petr Mladek
78f5009cc3 ipc/sem.c: avoid overflow of semop undo (semadj) value
When trying to understand semop code, I found a small mistake in the check
for semadj (undo) value overflow.  The new undo value is not stored
immediately and next potential checks are done against the old value.

The failing scenario is not much practical.  One semop call has to do more
operations on the same semaphore.  Also semval and semadj must have
different values, so there has to be some operations without SEM_UNDO
flag.  For example:

	struct sembuf depositor_op[1];
	struct sembuf collector_op[2];

	depositor_op[0].sem_num = 0;
	depositor_op[0].sem_op = 20000;
	depositor_op[0].sem_flg = 0;

	collector_op[0].sem_num = 0;
	collector_op[0].sem_op = -10000;
	collector_op[0].sem_flg = SEM_UNDO;
	collector_op[1].sem_num = 0;
	collector_op[1].sem_op = -10000;
	collector_op[1].sem_flg = SEM_UNDO;

	if (semop(semid, depositor_op, 1) == -1)
		{ perror("Failed to do 1st deposit"); return 1; }

	if (semop(semid, collector_op, 2) == -1)
		{ perror("Failed to do 1st collect"); return 1; }

	if (semop(semid, depositor_op, 1) == -1)
		{ perror("Failed to do 2nd deposit"); return 1; }

	if (semop(semid, collector_op, 2) == -1)
		{ perror("Failed to do 2nd collect"); return 1; }

	return 0;

It passes without error now but the semadj value has overflown in the 2nd
collector operation.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: restore lessened scope of local `undo']
[davidlohr@hp.com: correct header comment for perform_atomic_semop]
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Acked-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-27 21:02:39 -08:00
Manfred Spraul
6e224f9459 ipc/sem.c: synchronize semop and semctl with IPC_RMID
After acquiring the semlock spinlock, operations must test that the
array is still valid.

 - semctl() and exit_sem() would walk stale linked lists (ugly, but
   should be ok: all lists are empty)

 - semtimedop() would sleep forever - and if woken up due to a signal -
   access memory after free.

The patch also:
 - standardizes the tests for .deleted, so that all tests in one
   function leave the function with the same approach.
 - unconditionally tests for .deleted immediately after every call to
   sem_lock - even it it means that for semctl(GETALL), .deleted will be
   tested twice.

Both changes make the review simpler: After every sem_lock, there must
be a test of .deleted, followed by a goto to the cleanup code (if the
function uses "goto cleanup").

The only exception is semctl_down(): If sem_ids().rwsem is locked, then
the presence in ids->ipcs_idr is equivalent to !.deleted, thus no
additional test is required.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-10-16 21:35:52 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
0e8c665699 ipc/sem.c: update sem_otime for all operations
In commit 0a2b9d4c79 ("ipc/sem.c: move wake_up_process out of the
spinlock section"), the update of semaphore's sem_otime(last semop time)
was moved to one central position (do_smart_update).

But since do_smart_update() is only called for operations that modify
the array, this means that wait-for-zero semops do not update sem_otime
anymore.

The fix is simple:
Non-alter operations must update sem_otime.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Reported-by: Jia He <jiakernel@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Jia He <jiakernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-30 14:31:03 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
d8c633766a ipc/sem.c: synchronize the proc interface
The proc interface is not aware of sem_lock(), it instead calls
ipc_lock_object() directly.  This means that simple semop() operations
can run in parallel with the proc interface.  Right now, this is
uncritical, because the implementation doesn't do anything that requires
a proper synchronization.

But it is dangerous and therefore should be fixed.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
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>
2013-09-30 14:31:01 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
6d07b68ce1 ipc/sem.c: optimize sem_lock()
Operations that need access to the whole array must guarantee that there
are no simple operations ongoing.  Right now this is achieved by
spin_unlock_wait(sem->lock) on all semaphores.

If complex_count is nonzero, then this spin_unlock_wait() is not
necessary, because it was already performed in the past by the thread
that increased complex_count and even though sem_perm.lock was dropped
inbetween, no simple operation could have started, because simple
operations cannot start when complex_count is non-zero.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-30 14:31:01 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
5e9d527591 ipc/sem.c: fix race in sem_lock()
The exclusion of complex operations in sem_lock() is insufficient: after
acquiring the per-semaphore lock, a simple op must first check that
sem_perm.lock is not locked and only after that test check
complex_count.  The current code does it the other way around - and that
creates a race.  Details are below.

The patch is a complete rewrite of sem_lock(), based in part on the code
from Mike Galbraith.  It removes all gotos and all loops and thus the
risk of livelocks.

I have tested the patch (together with the next one) on my i3 laptop and
it didn't cause any problems.

The bug is probably also present in 3.10 and 3.11, but for these kernels
it might be simpler just to move the test of sma->complex_count after
the spin_is_locked() test.

Details of the bug:

Assume:
 - sma->complex_count = 0.
 - Thread 1: semtimedop(complex op that must sleep)
 - Thread 2: semtimedop(simple op).

Pseudo-Trace:

Thread 1: sem_lock(): acquire sem_perm.lock
Thread 1: sem_lock(): check for ongoing simple ops
			Nothing ongoing, thread 2 is still before sem_lock().
Thread 1: try_atomic_semop()
	<<< preempted.

Thread 2: sem_lock():
        static inline int sem_lock(struct sem_array *sma, struct sembuf *sops,
                                      int nsops)
        {
                int locknum;
         again:
                if (nsops == 1 && !sma->complex_count) {
                        struct sem *sem = sma->sem_base + sops->sem_num;

                        /* Lock just the semaphore we are interested in. */
                        spin_lock(&sem->lock);

                        /*
                         * If sma->complex_count was set while we were spinning,
                         * we may need to look at things we did not lock here.
                         */
                        if (unlikely(sma->complex_count)) {
                                spin_unlock(&sem->lock);
                                goto lock_array;
                        }
        <<<<<<<<<
	<<< complex_count is still 0.
	<<<
        <<< Here it is preempted
        <<<<<<<<<

Thread 1: try_atomic_semop() returns, notices that it must sleep.
Thread 1: increases sma->complex_count.
Thread 1: drops sem_perm.lock
Thread 2:
                /*
                 * Another process is holding the global lock on the
                 * sem_array; we cannot enter our critical section,
                 * but have to wait for the global lock to be released.
                 */
                if (unlikely(spin_is_locked(&sma->sem_perm.lock))) {
                        spin_unlock(&sem->lock);
                        spin_unlock_wait(&sma->sem_perm.lock);
                        goto again;
                }
	<<< sem_perm.lock already dropped, thus no "goto again;"

                locknum = sops->sem_num;

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[3.10+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-30 14:31:01 -07:00
Davidlohr Bueso
53dad6d3a8 ipc: fix race with LSMs
Currently, IPC mechanisms do security and auditing related checks under
RCU.  However, since security modules can free the security structure,
for example, through selinux_[sem,msg_queue,shm]_free_security(), we can
race if the structure is freed before other tasks are done with it,
creating a use-after-free condition.  Manfred illustrates this nicely,
for instance with shared mem and selinux:

 -> do_shmat calls rcu_read_lock()
 -> do_shmat calls shm_object_check().
     Checks that the object is still valid - but doesn't acquire any locks.
     Then it returns.
 -> do_shmat calls security_shm_shmat (e.g. selinux_shm_shmat)
 -> selinux_shm_shmat calls ipc_has_perm()
 -> ipc_has_perm accesses ipc_perms->security

shm_close()
 -> shm_close acquires rw_mutex & shm_lock
 -> shm_close calls shm_destroy
 -> shm_destroy calls security_shm_free (e.g. selinux_shm_free_security)
 -> selinux_shm_free_security calls ipc_free_security(&shp->shm_perm)
 -> ipc_free_security calls kfree(ipc_perms->security)

This patch delays the freeing of the security structures after all RCU
readers are done.  Furthermore it aligns the security life cycle with
that of the rest of IPC - freeing them based on the reference counter.
For situations where we need not free security, the current behavior is
kept.  Linus states:

 "... the old behavior was suspect for another reason too: having the
  security blob go away from under a user sounds like it could cause
  various other problems anyway, so I think the old code was at least
  _prone_ to bugs even if it didn't have catastrophic behavior."

I have tested this patch with IPC testcases from LTP on both my
quad-core laptop and on a 64 core NUMA server.  In both cases selinux is
enabled, and tests pass for both voluntary and forced preemption models.
While the mentioned races are theoretical (at least no one as reported
them), I wanted to make sure that this new logic doesn't break anything
we weren't aware of.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Acked-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-24 09:36:53 -07:00
Davidlohr Bueso
d9a605e40b ipc: rename ids->rw_mutex
Since in some situations the lock can be shared for readers, we shouldn't
be calling it a mutex, rename it to rwsem.

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>
2013-09-11 15:59:42 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
758a6ba39e ipc/sem.c: rename try_atomic_semop() to perform_atomic_semop(), docu update
Cleanup: Some minor points that I noticed while writing the previous
patches

1) The name try_atomic_semop() is misleading: The function performs the
   operation (if it is possible).

2) Some documentation updates.

No real code change, a rename and documentation changes.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-09 10:33:28 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
d12e1e50e4 ipc/sem.c: replace shared sem_otime with per-semaphore value
sem_otime contains the time of the last semaphore operation that
completed successfully.  Every operation updates this value, thus access
from multiple cpus can cause thrashing.

Therefore the patch replaces the variable with a per-semaphore variable.
The per-array sem_otime is only calculated when required.

No performance improvement on a single-socket i3 - only important for
larger systems.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-09 10:33:28 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
f269f40ad5 ipc/sem.c: always use only one queue for alter operations
There are two places that can contain alter operations:
 - the global queue: sma->pending_alter
 - the per-semaphore queues: sma->sem_base[].pending_alter.

Since one of the queues must be processed first, this causes an odd
priorization of the wakeups: complex operations have priority over
simple ops.

The patch restores the behavior of linux <=3.0.9: The longest waiting
operation has the highest priority.

This is done by using only one queue:
 - if there are complex ops, then sma->pending_alter is used.
 - otherwise, the per-semaphore queues are used.

As a side effect, do_smart_update_queue() becomes much simpler: no more
goto logic.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-09 10:33:28 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
1a82e9e1d0 ipc/sem: separate wait-for-zero and alter tasks into seperate queues
Introduce separate queues for operations that do not modify the
semaphore values.  Advantages:

 - Simpler logic in check_restart().
 - Faster update_queue(): Right now, all wait-for-zero operations are
   always tested, even if the semaphore value is not 0.
 - wait-for-zero gets again priority, as in linux <=3.0.9

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-09 10:33:28 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
f5c936c0f2 ipc/sem.c: cacheline align the semaphore structures
As now each semaphore has its own spinlock and parallel operations are
possible, give each semaphore its own cacheline.

On a i3 laptop, this gives up to 28% better performance:

  #semscale 10 | grep "interleave 2"
  - before:
  Cpus 1, interleave 2 delay 0: 36109234 in 10 secs
  Cpus 2, interleave 2 delay 0: 55276317 in 10 secs
  Cpus 3, interleave 2 delay 0: 62411025 in 10 secs
  Cpus 4, interleave 2 delay 0: 81963928 in 10 secs

  -after:
  Cpus 1, interleave 2 delay 0: 35527306 in 10 secs
  Cpus 2, interleave 2 delay 0: 70922909 in 10 secs <<< + 28%
  Cpus 3, interleave 2 delay 0: 80518538 in 10 secs
  Cpus 4, interleave 2 delay 0: 89115148 in 10 secs <<< + 8.7%

i3, with 2 cores and with hyperthreading enabled.  Interleave 2 in order
use first the full cores.  HT partially hides the delay from cacheline
trashing, thus the improvement is "only" 8.7% if 4 threads are running.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-09 10:33:28 -07:00
Davidlohr Bueso
9ad66ae65f ipc: remove unused functions
We can now drop the msg_lock and msg_lock_check functions along with a
bogus comment introduced previously in semctl_down.

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>
2013-07-09 10:33:27 -07:00
Davidlohr Bueso
7b4cc5d841 ipc: move locking out of ipcctl_pre_down_nolock
This function currently acquires both the rw_mutex and the rcu lock on
successful lookups, leaving the callers to explicitly unlock them,
creating another two level locking situation.

Make the callers (including those that still use ipcctl_pre_down())
explicitly lock and unlock the rwsem and rcu 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>
2013-07-09 10:33:27 -07:00
Davidlohr Bueso
cf9d5d78d0 ipc: close open coded spin lock calls
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>
2013-07-09 10:33:27 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
ab465df9dd ipc/sem.c: Fix missing wakeups in do_smart_update_queue()
do_smart_update_queue() is called when an operation (semop,
semctl(SETVAL), semctl(SETALL), ...) modified the array.  It must check
which of the sleeping tasks can proceed.

do_smart_update_queue() missed a few wakeups:
 - if a sleeping complex op was completed, then all per-semaphore queues
   must be scanned - not only those that were modified by *sops
 - if a sleeping simple op proceeded, then the global queue must be
   scanned again

And:
 - the test for "|sops == NULL) before scanning the global queue is not
   required: If the global queue is empty, then it doesn't need to be
   scanned - regardless of the reason for calling do_smart_update_queue()

The patch is not optimized, i.e.  even completing a wait-for-zero
operation causes a rescan.  This is done to keep the patch as simple as
possible.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-26 15:14:51 -07:00
Rik van Riel
de2657f94a ipc,sem: fix semctl(..., GETNCNT)
The semctl GETNCNT returns the number of semops waiting for the
specified semaphore to become nonzero.  After commit 9f1bc2c902
("ipc,sem: have only one list in struct sem_queue"), the semops waiting
on just one semaphore are waiting on that semaphore's list.

In order to return the correct count, we have to walk that list too, in
addition to the sem_array's list for complex operations.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-09 14:17:47 -07:00
Rik van Riel
ebc2e5e6a4 ipc,sem: fix semctl(..., GETZCNT)
The semctl GETZCNT returns the number of semops waiting for the
specified semaphore to become zero.  After commit 9f1bc2c902
("ipc,sem: have only one list in struct sem_queue"), the semops waiting
on just one semaphore are waiting on that semaphore's list.

In order to return the correct count, we have to walk that list too, in
addition to the sem_array's list for complex operations.

This bug broke dbench; it works again with this patch applied.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Tested-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-09 14:17:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
941b0304a7 ipc: simplify rcu_read_lock() in semctl_nolock()
This trivially combines two rcu_read_lock() calls in both sides of a
if-statement into one single one in front of the if-statement.

Split out as an independent cleanup from the previous commit.

Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-04 17:24:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c728b9c87b ipc: simplify semtimedop/semctl_main() common error path handling
With various straight RCU lock/unlock movements, one common exit path
pattern had become

	rcu_read_unlock();
	goto out_wakeup;

and in fact there were no cases where we wanted to exit to out_wakeup
_without_ releasing the RCU read lock.

So replace that pattern with "goto out_rcu_wakeup", and remove the old
out_wakeup.

Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-04 17:21:58 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
321310ced2 ipc: move sem_obtain_lock() rcu locking into the only caller
sem_obtain_lock() was another of those functions that returned with the
RCU lock held for reading in the success case.  Move the RCU locking to
the caller (semtimedop()), making it more obvious.  We already did RCU
locking elsewhere in that function.

Side note: why does semtimedop() re-do the semphore lookup after the
sleep, rather than just getting a reference to the semaphore it already
looked up originally?

Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-04 17:20:14 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
fbfd1d2862 ipc: fix double sem unlock in semctl error path
Fix another ipc locking buglet introduced by the scalability patches:
when semctl_down() was changed to delay the semaphore locking, one error
path for security_sem_semctl() went through the semaphore unlock logic
even though the semaphore had never been locked.

Introduced by commit 16df3674ef ("ipc,sem: do not hold ipc lock more
than necessary")

Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-04 17:19:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4091fd942e ipc: move the rcu_read_lock() from sem_lock_and_putref() into callers
This is another ipc semaphore locking cleanup, trying to make the
locking more straightforward.  We move the rcu read locking into the
callers of sem_lock_and_putref(), which in general means that we now
mostly do the rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock() in the same
function.

Mostly.  We still have the ipc_addid/newary/freeary mess, and things
like ipcctl_pre_down_nolock().

Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-04 17:19:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
73b29505c3 ipc: sem_putref() does not need the semaphore lock any more
ipc_rcu_putref() uses atomics for the refcount, and the games to lock
and unlock the semaphore just to try to keep the reference counting
working are no longer useful.

Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-04 11:24:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6d49dab8ae ipc: move rcu_read_unlock() out of sem_unlock() and into callers
The IPC locking is a mess, and sem_unlock() unlocks not only the
semaphore spinlock, it also drops the rcu read lock.  Unlike sem_lock(),
which just gets the spin-lock, and expects the caller to get the rcu
read lock.

This all makes things very hard to follow, and it's very confusing when
you take the rcu read lock in one function, and then release it in
another.  And it has caused actual bugs: the sem_obtain_lock() function
ended up dropping the RCU read lock twice in one error path, because it
first did the sem_unlock(), and then did a rcu_read_unlock() to match
the rcu_read_lock() it had done.

This is just a totally mindless "remove rcu_read_unlock() from
sem_unlock() and add it immediately after each caller" (except for the
aforementioned bug where we did too many rcu_read_unlock(), and in
find_alloc_undo() where we just got the rcu_read_lock() to correct for
the fact that sem_unlock would immediately drop it again).

We can (and should) clean things up further, but this fixes the bug with
the minimal amount of subtlety.

Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-04 11:24:00 -07:00
Al Viro
ce857229e0 ipc: fix GETALL/IPC_RM race for sysv semaphores
We can step on WARN_ON_ONCE() in sem_getref() if a semaphore is removed
just as we are about to call sem_getref() from semctl_main(); results
are not pretty.

We should fail with -EIDRM, same as if IPC_RM happened while we'd been
doing allocation there.  This also expands sem_getref() at its only
callsite (and fixed there), while sem_getref_and_unlock() is simply
killed off - it has no callers at all.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-02 19:51:31 -07:00
Rik van Riel
6062a8dc05 ipc,sem: fine grained locking for semtimedop
Introduce finer grained locking for semtimedop, to handle the common case
of a program wanting to manipulate one semaphore from an array with
multiple semaphores.

If the call is a semop manipulating just one semaphore in an array with
multiple semaphores, only take the lock for that semaphore itself.

If the call needs to manipulate multiple semaphores, or another caller is
in a transaction that manipulates multiple semaphores, the sem_array lock
is taken, as well as all the locks for the individual semaphores.

On a 24 CPU system, performance numbers with the semop-multi
test with N threads and N semaphores, look like this:

	vanilla		Davidlohr's	Davidlohr's +	Davidlohr's +
threads			patches		rwlock patches	v3 patches
10	610652		726325		1783589		2142206
20	341570		365699		1520453		1977878
30	288102		307037		1498167		2037995
40	290714		305955		1612665		2256484
50	288620		312890		1733453		2650292
60	289987		306043		1649360		2388008
70	291298		306347		1723167		2717486
80	290948		305662		1729545		2763582
90	290996		306680		1736021		2757524
100	292243		306700		1773700		3059159

[davidlohr.bueso@hp.com: do not call sem_lock when bogus sma]
[davidlohr.bueso@hp.com: make refcounter atomic]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Tested-by: Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-01 08:12:58 -07:00
Rik van Riel
9f1bc2c902 ipc,sem: have only one list in struct sem_queue
Having only one list in struct sem_queue, and only queueing simple
semaphore operations on the list for the semaphore involved, allows us to
introduce finer grained locking for semtimedop.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Cc: Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-01 08:12:58 -07:00
Rik van Riel
c460b662d5 ipc,sem: open code and rename sem_lock
Rename sem_lock() to sem_obtain_lock(), so we can introduce a sem_lock()
later that only locks the sem_array and does nothing else.

Open code the locking from ipc_lock() in sem_obtain_lock() so we can
introduce finer grained locking for the sem_array in the next patch.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: propagate the ipc_obtain_object() errno out of sem_obtain_lock()]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Cc: Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-01 08:12:58 -07:00
Davidlohr Bueso
16df3674ef ipc,sem: do not hold ipc lock more than necessary
Instead of holding the ipc lock for permissions and security checks, among
others, only acquire it when necessary.

Some numbers....

1) With Rik's semop-multi.c microbenchmark we can see the following
   results:

Baseline (3.9-rc1):
cpus 4, threads: 256, semaphores: 128, test duration: 30 secs
total operations: 151452270, ops/sec 5048409

+  59.40%            a.out  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] _raw_spin_lock
+   6.14%            a.out  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sys_semtimedop
+   3.84%            a.out  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] avc_has_perm_flags
+   3.64%            a.out  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __audit_syscall_exit
+   2.06%            a.out  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] copy_user_enhanced_fast_string
+   1.86%            a.out  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] ipc_lock

With this patchset:
cpus 4, threads: 256, semaphores: 128, test duration: 30 secs
total operations: 273156400, ops/sec 9105213

+  18.54%            a.out  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] _raw_spin_lock
+  11.72%            a.out  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sys_semtimedop
+   7.70%            a.out  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] ipc_has_perm.isra.21
+   6.58%            a.out  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] avc_has_perm_flags
+   6.54%            a.out  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __audit_syscall_exit
+   4.71%            a.out  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] ipc_obtain_object_check

2) While on an Oracle swingbench DSS (data mining) workload the
   improvements are not as exciting as with Rik's benchmark, we can see
   some positive numbers.  For an 8 socket machine the following are the
   percentages of %sys time incurred in the ipc lock:

Baseline (3.9-rc1):
100 swingbench users: 8,74%
400 swingbench users: 21,86%
800 swingbench users: 84,35%

With this patchset:
100 swingbench users: 8,11%
400 swingbench users: 19,93%
800 swingbench users: 77,69%

[riel@redhat.com: fix two locking bugs]
[sasha.levin@oracle.com: prevent releasing RCU read lock twice in semctl_main]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Acked-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-01 08:12:58 -07:00
Al Viro
e1fd1f490f get rid of union semop in sys_semctl(2) arguments
just have the bugger take unsigned long and deal with SETVAL
case (when we use an int member in the union) explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-03-05 15:14:16 -05:00
Al Viro
22d1a35da0 make HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS unconditional
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-03-03 22:58:30 -05:00
Eric W. Biederman
1efdb69b0b userns: Convert ipc to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
- Store the ipc owner and creator with a kuid
- Store the ipc group and the crators group with a kgid.
- Add error handling to ipc_update_perms, allowing it to
  fail if the uids and gids can not be converted to kuids
  or kgids.
- Modify the proc files to display the ipc creator and
  owner in the user namespace of the opener of the proc file.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-09-06 22:17:20 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
e57940d719 ipc/sem.c: remove private structures from public header file
include/linux/sem.h contains several structures that are only used within
ipc/sem.c.

The patch moves them into ipc/sem.c - there is no need to expose the
structures to the whole kernel.

No functional changes, only whitespace cleanups and 80-char per line
fixes.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02 16:07:01 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
0b0577f608 ipc/sem.c: handle spurious wakeups
semtimedop() does not handle spurious wakeups, it returns -EINTR to user
space.  Most other schedule() users would just loop and not return to user
space.  The patch adds such a loop to semtimedop()

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02 16:07:01 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
3c24783bb2 ipc/sem.c: fix return code race with semop vs. semop +semctl(IPC_RMID)
sys_semtimedop() may return -EIDRM although the semaphore operation
completed successfully:

thread 1:	thread 2:
		semtimedop(), sleeps
semop():
* acquires sem_lock()
		semtimedop() woken up due to timeout
		sem_lock() loops
* notices that thread 2 could be completed.
* performs the operations that thread 2 is sleeping on.
* marks the semaphore operation as IN_WAKEUP
* drops sem_lock(), does wakeup, sets return code to 0
		* thread delayed due to interrupt, whatever
* returns to user space
		* thread still delayed
semctl(IPC_RMID)
* acquires sem_lock()
* ipc_rmid(), ipcp->deleted=1
* drops sem_lock()
		* thread finally continues - but seem_lock()
		  now fails due to ipcp->deleted == 1
		* returns -EIDRM instead of 0

The fix is trivial: Always use the return code in queue.status.

In real world, the race probably doesn't matter:
If the semaphore array is destroyed, the app is probably not interested
if the last operation succeeded or was already cancelled.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02 16:07:01 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
d694ad62bf ipc/sem.c: fix race with concurrent semtimedop() timeouts and IPC_RMID
If a semaphore array is removed and in parallel a sleeping task is woken
up (signal or timeout, does not matter), then the woken up task does not
wait until wake_up_sem_queue_do() is completed.  This will cause crashes,
because wake_up_sem_queue_do() will read from a stale pointer.

The fix is simple: Regardless of anything, always call get_queue_result().
This function waits until wake_up_sem_queue_do() has finished it's task.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27142

Reported-by: Yuriy Yevtukhov <yuriy@ucoz.com>
Reported-by: Harald Laabs <kernel@dasr.de>
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.35+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25 20:57:07 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
693a8b6eec ipc,rcu: Convert call_rcu(free_un) to kfree_rcu()
The rcu callback free_un() just calls a kfree(),
so we use kfree_rcu() instead of the call_rcu(free_un).

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-07-20 14:10:16 -07:00
Lucas De Marchi
25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Serge E. Hallyn
b0e77598f8 userns: user namespaces: convert several capable() calls
CAP_IPC_OWNER and CAP_IPC_LOCK can be checked against current_user_ns(),
because the resource comes from current's own ipc namespace.

setuid/setgid are to uids in own namespace, so again checks can be against
current_user_ns().

Changelog:
	Jan 11: Use task_ns_capable() in place of sched_capable().
	Jan 11: Use nsown_capable() as suggested by Bastian Blank.
	Jan 11: Clarify (hopefully) some logic in futex and sched.c
	Feb 15: use ns_capable for ipc, not nsown_capable
	Feb 23: let copy_ipcs handle setting ipc_ns->user_ns
	Feb 23: pass ns down rather than taking it from current

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-23 19:47:08 -07:00
Dan Rosenberg
982f7c2b2e sys_semctl: fix kernel stack leakage
The semctl syscall has several code paths that lead to the leakage of
uninitialized kernel stack memory (namely the IPC_INFO, SEM_INFO,
IPC_STAT, and SEM_STAT commands) during the use of the older, obsolete
version of the semid_ds struct.

The copy_semid_to_user() function declares a semid_ds struct on the stack
and copies it back to the user without initializing or zeroing the
"sem_base", "sem_pending", "sem_pending_last", and "undo" pointers,
allowing the leakage of 16 bytes of kernel stack memory.

The code is still reachable on 32-bit systems - when calling semctl()
newer glibc's automatically OR the IPC command with the IPC_64 flag, but
invoking the syscall directly allows users to use the older versions of
the struct.

Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.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>
2010-10-01 10:50:58 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
c61284e991 ipc/sem.c: bugfix for semop() not reporting successful operation
The last change to improve the scalability moved the actual wake-up out of
the section that is protected by spin_lock(sma->sem_perm.lock).

This means that IN_WAKEUP can be in queue.status even when the spinlock is
acquired by the current task.  Thus the same loop that is performed when
queue.status is read without the spinlock acquired must be performed when
the spinlock is acquired.

Thanks to kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com for noticing lack of the memory
barrier.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16255

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clean up kerneldoc, checkpatch warning and whitespace]
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Reported-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-07-20 16:25:40 -07:00
Julia Lawall
4de85cd6d6 ipc/sem.c: use ERR_CAST
Use ERR_CAST(x) rather than ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(x)).  The former makes more
clear what is the purpose of the operation, which otherwise looks like a
no-op.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
type T;
T x;
identifier f;
@@

T f (...) { <+...
- ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(x))
+ x
 ...+> }

@@
expression x;
@@

- ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(x))
+ ERR_CAST(x)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:49 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
c5cf6359ad ipc/sem.c: update description of the implementation
ipc/sem.c begins with a 15 year old description about bugs in the initial
implementation in Linux-1.0.  The patch replaces that with a top level
description of the current code.

A TODO could be derived from this text:

The opengroup man page for semop() does not mandate FIFO.  Thus there is
no need for a semaphore array list of pending operations.

If

- this list is removed
- the per-semaphore array spinlock is removed (possible if there is no
  list to protect)
- sem_otime is moved into the semaphores and calculated on demand during
  semctl()

then the array would be read-mostly - which would significantly improve
scaling for applications that use semaphore arrays with lots of entries.

The price would be expensive semctl() calls:

	for(i=0;i<sma->sem_nsems;i++) spin_lock(sma->sem_lock);
	<do stuff>
	for(i=0;i<sma->sem_nsems;i++) spin_unlock(sma->sem_lock);

I'm not sure if the complexity is worth the effort, thus here is the
documentation of the current behavior first.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:49 -07:00