ipc: document general ipc locking scheme

As suggested by Andrew, add a generic initial locking scheme used
throughout all sysv ipc mechanisms.  Documenting the ids rwsem, how rcu
can be enough to do the initial checks and when to actually acquire the
kern_ipc_perm.lock spinlock.

I found that adding it to util.c was generic enough.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/ipc/util.c b/ipc/util.c
index 9a1d779a20e2d98439e0c9954c3d4494849bba18..1ddadcf9a2abdc6c3928d9fed415b81cab104baf 100644 (file)
--- a/ipc/util.c
+++ b/ipc/util.c
@@ -15,6 +15,14 @@
  * Jun 2006 - namespaces ssupport
  *            OpenVZ, SWsoft Inc.
  *            Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
+ *
+ * General sysv ipc locking scheme:
+ *  when doing ipc id lookups, take the ids->rwsem
+ *      rcu_read_lock()
+ *          obtain the ipc object (kern_ipc_perm)
+ *          perform security, capabilities, auditing and permission checks, etc.
+ *          acquire the ipc lock (kern_ipc_perm.lock) throught ipc_lock_object()
+ *             perform data updates (ie: SET, RMID, LOCK/UNLOCK commands)
  */
 
 #include <linux/mm.h>