From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@bull.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24-rc3-mm1] IPC: consolidate sem_exit_ns(), msg_exit_ns and shm_exit_ns()
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:44:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071126224438.df547263.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071123175250.0f584913.pierre.peiffer@bull.net>
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:52:50 +0100 Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@bull.net> wrote:
> sem_exit_ns(), msg_exit_ns() and shm_exit_ns() are all called when an ipc_namespace is
> released to free all ipcs of each type.
> But in fact, they do the same thing: they loop around all ipcs to free them
> individually by calling a specific routine.
>
> This patch proposes to consolidate this by introducing a common function, free_ipcs(),
> that do the job. The specific routine to call on each individual ipcs is passed as
> parameter. For this, these ipc-specific 'free' routines are reworked to take a
> generic 'struct ipc_perm' as parameter.
This conflicts in more-than-trivial ways with Pavel's
move-the-ipc-namespace-under-ipc_ns-option.patch, which was in
2.6.24-rc3-mm1.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-27 6:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-23 16:52 [PATCH 2.6.24-rc3-mm1] IPC: consolidate sem_exit_ns(), msg_exit_ns and shm_exit_ns() Pierre Peiffer
2007-11-27 6:44 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-11-27 6:46 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-27 8:19 ` Pierre Peiffer
2007-11-27 8:29 ` Andrew Morton
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