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* [RFC PATCH 0/4] IPC/sem - allow saving/restoring a process semundo_list
@ 2008-06-20 11:48 Nadia.Derbey-6ktuUTfB/bM
  2008-06-20 11:48 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] IPC/sem: use RCU to free the sem_undo_list Nadia.Derbey-6ktuUTfB/bM
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From: Nadia.Derbey-6ktuUTfB/bM @ 2008-06-20 11:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi,

A couple of months ago, Pierre Peiffer has submitted a patch series to enable
checkpointing / restarting ipcs.
4 of these patches were related to semaphores:

https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2008-January/thread.html#9756
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2008-January/thread.html#9757
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2008-January/thread.html#9758
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2008-January/thread.html#9759

They introduced a new procfs file: /proc/<pid>/semundo to read and write the
semaphores undo values for a given process.

These patches are widely used in the -lxc development tree cryo code is based
upon.
(more information about lxc can be found at http://lxc.sourceforge.net/ and
the development tree can be found there too - under the patches link).

Manfred Spraul, on his side, has rewritten an important part of the
semaphores code. See:

1. http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/24/92
2. http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/24/93
3. http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/24/90
4. http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/24/91

Mainly patches 1 and 4 made Pierre's patches unappliable.
 . patch 1 changed the semundo_list proc_list field into a linked list.
 . patch 2
    . reversed the locking order of the sem_undo_list lock and the semaphore
      lock.
    . converted the sem_undo structure to use rcu.

Since 2.6.26-rc5-mm3 is now the new target for the -lxc development tree, I've
ported them and taking this opportunity to resubmit them to the containers
list.

I have in mind a simpler solution, which I think I'll propose next week:
instead of writing into the /proc/<pid>/semundo of a third party process,
only allow the write operation to be done for <current>.

Kathy, can you please pull in these patches?


Regards,
Nadia


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