kernel/linux.git/ipc/shm.c, branch linux-2.6.28.y

shm: fix shmctl(SHM_INFO) lockup with !CONFIG_SHMEM

2009-02-12T17:50:23+00:00

commit a68e61e8ff2d46327a37b69056998b47745db6fa upstream. shm_get_stat() assumes that the inode is a "struct shmem_inode_info", which is incorrect for !CONFIG_SHMEM (see fs/ramfs/inode.c: ramfs_get_inode() vs. mm/shmem.c: shmem_get_inode()). This bad assumption can cause shmctl(SHM_INFO) to lockup when shm_get_stat() tries to spin_lock(&info->lock). Users of !CONFIG_SHMEM may encounter this lockup simply by invoking the 'ipcs' command. Reported by Jiri Olsa back in February 2008: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/29/74 Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby Cc: Jiri Kosina Reported-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

System call wrappers part 25

2009-01-18T18:44:00+00:00

commit d5460c9974a321a194aded4a8c4daaac68ea8171 upstream. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] introduce fmode_t, do annotations

2008-10-21T11:47:06+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

SHM_LOCKED pages are unevictable

2008-10-20T15:50:26+00:00

Shmem segments locked into memory via shmctl(SHM_LOCKED) should not be kept on the normal LRU, since scanning them is a waste of time and might throw off kswapd's balancing algorithms. Place them on the unevictable LRU list instead. Use the AS_UNEVICTABLE flag to mark address_space of SHM_LOCKed shared memory regions as unevictable. Then these pages will be culled off the normal LRU lists during vmscan. Add new wrapper function to clear the mapping's unevictable state when/if shared memory segment is munlocked. Add 'scan_mapping_unevictable_page()' to mm/vmscan.c to scan all pages in the shmem segment's mapping [struct address_space] for evictability now that they're no longer locked. If so, move them to the appropriate zone lru list. Changes depend on [CONFIG_]UNEVICTABLE_LRU. [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: revert shm change] Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Kosaki Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc: get rid of ipc_lock_down()

2008-07-25T17:53:42+00:00

Remove the ipc_lock_down() routines: they used to call idr_find() locklessly (given that the ipc ids lock was already held), so they are not needed anymore. Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Manfred Spraul Cc: Jim Houston Cc: Pierre Peiffer Acked-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

hugetlb: modular state for hugetlb page size

2008-07-24T17:47:17+00:00

The goal of this patchset is to support multiple hugetlb page sizes. This is achieved by introducing a new struct hstate structure, which encapsulates the important hugetlb state and constants (eg. huge page size, number of huge pages currently allocated, etc). The hstate structure is then passed around the code which requires these fields, they will do the right thing regardless of the exact hstate they are operating on. This patch adds the hstate structure, with a single global instance of it (default_hstate), and does the basic work of converting hugetlb to use the hstate. Future patches will add more hstate structures to allow for different hugetlbfs mounts to have different page sizes. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Acked-by: Adam Litke Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

/proc/sysvipc/shm: fix 32-bit truncation of segment sizes

2008-06-13T01:05:41+00:00

sysvipc_shm_proc_show() picks between format strings (based on the expected maximum length of a SHM segment) in a way that prevents gcc from performing format checks on the seq_printf() parameters. This hid two format errors - shp->shm_segsz and shp->shm_nattach are both unsigned long, but were being printed as unsigned int and signed int respectively. This leads to 32-bit truncation of SHM segment sizes reported in /proc/sysvipc/shm. (And for nattach, but that's less of a problem for most users). This patch makes the format string directly visible to gcc's format specifier checker, and fixes the two broken format specifiers. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage Cc: Nadia Derbey Cc: Manfred Spraul Cc: Pierre Peiffer Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

shm: Remove silly double assignment

2008-06-10T14:58:00+00:00

Found a silly double assignment of err is do_shmat. Silly, but good to clean up the useless code. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

IPC: consolidate all xxxctl_down() functions

2008-04-29T15:06:14+00:00

semctl_down(), msgctl_down() and shmctl_down() are used to handle the same set of commands for each kind of IPC. They all start to do the same job (they retrieve the ipc and do some permission checks) before handling the commands on their own. This patch proposes to consolidate this by moving these same pieces of code into one common function called ipcctl_pre_down(). It simplifies a little these xxxctl_down() functions and increases a little the maintainability. Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Cc: Nadia Derbey Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

IPC: introduce ipc_update_perm()

2008-04-29T15:06:13+00:00

The IPC_SET command performs the same permission setting for all IPCs. This patch introduces a common ipc_update_perm() function to update these permissions and makes use of it for all IPCs. Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Cc: Nadia Derbey Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds