alistair23-linux/ipc
Eric W. Biederman 728dba3a39 namespaces: Use task_lock and not rcu to protect nsproxy
The synchronous syncrhonize_rcu in switch_task_namespaces makes setns
a sufficiently expensive system call that people have complained.

Upon inspect nsproxy no longer needs rcu protection for remote reads.
remote reads are rare.  So optimize for same process reads and write
by switching using rask_lock instead.

This yields a simpler to understand lock, and a faster setns system call.

In particular this fixes a performance regression observed
by Rafael David Tinoco <rafael.tinoco@canonical.com>.

This is effectively a revert of Pavel Emelyanov's commit
cf7b708c8d Make access to task's nsproxy lighter
from 2007.  The race this originialy fixed no longer exists as
do_notify_parent uses task_active_pid_ns(parent) instead of
parent->nsproxy.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2014-07-29 18:08:50 -07:00
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compat.c ipc, kernel: use Linux headers 2014-06-06 16:08:14 -07:00
compat_mq.c ipc, kernel: use Linux headers 2014-06-06 16:08:14 -07:00
ipc_sysctl.c ipc: convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table 2014-06-06 16:08:16 -07:00
ipcns_notifier.c
Makefile
mq_sysctl.c ipc: convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table 2014-06-06 16:08:16 -07:00
mqueue.c ipc: use device_initcall 2014-04-07 16:36:11 -07:00
msg.c ipc,msg: document volatile r_msg 2014-06-06 16:08:15 -07:00
msgutil.c ipc, msg: fix message length check for negative values 2013-11-13 12:09:36 +09:00
namespace.c namespaces: Use task_lock and not rcu to protect nsproxy 2014-07-29 18:08:50 -07:00
sem.c ipc/sem.c: add a printk_once for semctl(GETNCNT/GETZCNT) 2014-06-06 16:08:15 -07:00
shm.c ipc/shm.c: check for integer overflow during shmget. 2014-06-06 16:08:14 -07:00
syscall.c get rid of union semop in sys_semctl(2) arguments 2013-03-05 15:14:16 -05:00
util.c ipc, kernel: clear whitespace 2014-06-06 16:08:14 -07:00
util.h ipc, kernel: clear whitespace 2014-06-06 16:08:14 -07:00