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Eric W. Biederman 98f929b1bd ipc/shm: Fix shmctl(..., IPC_STAT, ...) between pid namespaces.
Today shm_cpid and shm_lpid are remembered in the pid namespace of the
creator and the processes that last touched a sysvipc shared memory
segment.   If you have processes in multiple pid namespaces that
is just wrong, and I don't know how this has been over-looked for
so long.

As only creation and shared memory attach and shared memory detach
update the pids I do not expect there to be a repeat of the issues
when struct pid was attached to each af_unix skb, which in some
notable cases cut the performance in half.  The problem was threads of
the same process updating same struct pid from different cpus causing
the cache line to be highly contended and bounce between cpus.

As creation, attach, and detach are expected to be rare operations for
sysvipc shared memory segments I do not expect that kind of cache line
ping pong to cause probems.  In addition because the pid is at a fixed
location in the structure instead of being dynamic on a skb, the
reference count of the pid does not need to be updated on each
operation if the pid is the same.  This ability to simply skip the pid
reference count changes if the pid is unchanging further reduces the
likelihood of the a cache line holding a pid reference count
ping-ponging between cpus.

Fixes: b488893a39 ("pid namespaces: changes to show virtual ids to user")
Reviewed-by: Nagarathnam Muthusamy <nagarathnam.muthusamy@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-03-27 15:53:09 -05:00
arch Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-02-18 12:56:41 -08:00
block blk: optimization for classic polling 2018-02-13 09:12:04 -07:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-02-12 08:57:21 -08:00
Documentation ACPI updates for v4.16-rc2 2018-02-15 14:50:32 -08:00
drivers Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-02-18 12:22:04 -08:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs for-4.16-rc1-tag 2018-02-16 09:26:18 -08:00
include ipc: Move IPCMNI from include/ipc.h into ipc/util.h 2018-03-24 11:25:36 -05:00
init membarrier: Provide core serializing command, *_SYNC_CORE 2018-02-05 21:35:03 +01:00
ipc ipc/shm: Fix shmctl(..., IPC_STAT, ...) between pid namespaces. 2018-03-27 15:53:09 -05:00
kernel pidns: simpler allocation of pid_* caches 2018-03-21 09:40:17 -05:00
lib dma-direct: comment the dma_direct_free calling convention 2018-02-12 15:59:07 +00:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
mm mm: hide a #warning for COMPILE_TEST 2018-02-16 09:41:36 -08:00
net virtio: bugfixes 2018-02-15 14:29:27 -08:00
samples sample/bpf: fix erspan metadata 2018-02-06 11:32:49 -05:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v4.16 (2nd) 2018-02-09 19:32:41 -08:00
security msg/security: Pass kern_ipc_perm not msg_queue into the msg_queue security hooks 2018-03-22 21:22:26 -05:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: PCI quirk for Fujitsu U7x7 2018-02-14 12:02:26 +01:00
tools perf/core improvements and fixes: 2018-02-16 09:10:09 +01:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore scripts/package: snap-pkg target 2017-12-13 00:00:18 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: update Mark Yao's email address 2018-01-04 16:45:09 -08:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-02-14 17:02:15 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.16-rc2 2018-02-18 17:29:42 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.