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    ipc: move rcu lock out of ipc_addid · dbfcd91f
    Davidlohr Bueso authored
    This patchset continues the work that began in the sysv ipc semaphore
    scaling series, see
    
      https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/20/546
    
    
    
    Just like semaphores used to be, sysv shared memory and msg queues also
    abuse the ipc lock, unnecessarily holding it for operations such as
    permission and security checks.
    
    This patchset mostly deals with mqueues, and while shared mem can be
    done in a very similar way, I want to get these patches out in the open
    first.  It also does some pending cleanups, mostly focused on the two
    level locking we have in ipc code, taking care of ipc_addid() and
    ipcctl_pre_down_nolock() - yes there are still functions that need to be
    updated as well.
    
    This patch:
    
    Make all callers explicitly take and release the RCU read lock.
    
    This addresses the two level locking seen in newary(), newseg() and
    newqueue().  For the last two, explicitly unlock the ipc object and the
    rcu lock, instead of calling the custom shm_unlock and msg_unlock
    functions.  The next patch will deal with the open coded locking for
    ->perm.lock
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
    Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
    Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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