Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.
Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.
This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.
How this work was done:
Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,
Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.
The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.
The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).
All documentation files were explicitly excluded.
The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.
- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.
For non */uapi/* files that summary was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139
and resulted in the first patch in this series.
If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930
and resulted in the second patch in this series.
- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1
and that resulted in the third patch in this series.
- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).
- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.
- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).
- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.
In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.
Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.
In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.
Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct
This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.
These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull ipc compat cleanup and 64-bit time_t from Al Viro:
"IPC copyin/copyout sanitizing, including 64bit time_t work from Deepa
Dinamani"
* 'work.ipc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
utimes: Make utimes y2038 safe
ipc: shm: Make shmid_kernel timestamps y2038 safe
ipc: sem: Make sem_array timestamps y2038 safe
ipc: msg: Make msg_queue timestamps y2038 safe
ipc: mqueue: Replace timespec with timespec64
ipc: Make sys_semtimedop() y2038 safe
get rid of SYSVIPC_COMPAT on ia64
semtimedop(): move compat to native
shmat(2): move compat to native
msgrcv(2), msgsnd(2): move compat to native
ipc(2): move compat to native
ipc: make use of compat ipc_perm helpers
semctl(): move compat to native
semctl(): separate all layout-dependent copyin/copyout
msgctl(): move compat to native
msgctl(): split the actual work from copyin/copyout
ipc: move compat shmctl to native
shmctl: split the work from copyin/copyout
ipc_findkey() used to scan all objects to look for the wanted key. This
is slow when using a high number of keys. This change adds an rhashtable
of kern_ipc_perm objects in ipc_ids, so that one lookup cease to be O(n).
This change gives a 865% improvement of benchmark reaim.jobs_per_min on a
56 threads Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2695 v3 @ 2.30GHz with 256G memory [1]
Other (more micro) benchmark results, by the author: On an i5 laptop, the
following loop executed right after a reboot took, without and with this
change:
for (int i = 0, k=0x424242; i < KEYS; ++i)
semget(k++, 1, IPC_CREAT | 0600);
total total max single max single
KEYS without with call without call with
1 3.5 4.9 µs 3.5 4.9
10 7.6 8.6 µs 3.7 4.7
32 16.2 15.9 µs 4.3 5.3
100 72.9 41.8 µs 3.7 4.7
1000 5,630.0 502.0 µs * *
10000 1,340,000.0 7,240.0 µs * *
31900 17,600,000.0 22,200.0 µs * *
*: unreliable measure: high variance
The duration for a lookup-only usage was obtained by the same loop once
the keys are present:
total total max single max single
KEYS without with call without call with
1 2.1 2.5 µs 2.1 2.5
10 4.5 4.8 µs 2.2 2.3
32 13.0 10.8 µs 2.3 2.8
100 82.9 25.1 µs * 2.3
1000 5,780.0 217.0 µs * *
10000 1,470,000.0 2,520.0 µs * *
31900 17,400,000.0 7,810.0 µs * *
Finally, executing each semget() in a new process gave, when still
summing only the durations of these syscalls:
creation:
total total
KEYS without with
1 3.7 5.0 µs
10 32.9 36.7 µs
32 125.0 109.0 µs
100 523.0 353.0 µs
1000 20,300.0 3,280.0 µs
10000 2,470,000.0 46,700.0 µs
31900 27,800,000.0 219,000.0 µs
lookup-only:
total total
KEYS without with
1 2.5 2.7 µs
10 25.4 24.4 µs
32 106.0 72.6 µs
100 591.0 352.0 µs
1000 22,400.0 2,250.0 µs
10000 2,510,000.0 25,700.0 µs
31900 28,200,000.0 115,000.0 µs
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170814060507.GE23258@yexl-desktop
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170815194954.ck32ta2z35yuzpwp@debix
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Knispel <guillaume.knispel@supersonicimagine.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Pardo <marc.pardo@supersonicimagine.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Guillaume Knispel <guillaume.knispel@supersonicimagine.com>
Cc: Marc Pardo <marc.pardo@supersonicimagine.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
refcount_t type and corresponding API should be used instead of atomic_t
when the variable is used as a reference counter. This allows to avoid
accidental refcounter overflows that might lead to use-after-free
situations.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1499417992-3238-3-git-send-email-elena.reshetova@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: <arozansk@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
time_t is not y2038 safe. Replace all uses of
time_t by y2038 safe time64_t.
Similarly, replace the calls to get_seconds() with
y2038 safe ktime_get_real_seconds().
Note that this preserves fast access on 64 bit systems,
but 32 bit systems need sequence counters.
The syscall interface themselves are not changed as part of
the patch. They will be part of a different series.
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
struct timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit machines.
Replace timespec with y2038 safe struct timespec64.
Note that the patch only changes the internals without
modifying the syscall interface. This will be part
of a separate series.
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
There is no agreed-upon definition of spin_unlock_wait()'s semantics,
and it appears that all callers could do just as well with a lock/unlock
pair. This commit therefore replaces the spin_unlock_wait() call in
exit_sem() with spin_lock() followed immediately by spin_unlock().
This should be safe from a performance perspective because exit_sem()
is rarely invoked in production.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
When building with the randstruct gcc plugin, the layout of the IPC
structs will be randomized, which requires any sub-structure accesses to
use container_of(). The proc display handlers were missing the needed
container_of()s since the iterator is passing in the top-level struct
kern_ipc_perm.
This would lead to crashes when running the "lsipc" program after the
system had IPC registered (e.g. after starting up Gnome):
general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
...
RIP: 0010:shm_add_rss_swap.isra.1+0x13/0xa0
...
Call Trace:
sysvipc_shm_proc_show+0x5e/0x150
sysvipc_proc_show+0x1a/0x30
seq_read+0x2e9/0x3f0
...
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170730205950.GA55841@beast
Fixes: 3859a271a0 ("randstruct: Mark various structs for randomization")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Acked-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Only after ipc_addid() has succeeded will refcounting be used, so move
initialization into ipc_addid() and remove from open-coded *_alloc()
routines.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170525185107.12869-17-manfred@colorfullife.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Loosely based on a patch from Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>:
- id and retval can be merged
- if ipc_addid() fails, then use call_rcu() directly.
The difference is that call_rcu is used for failed ipc_addid() calls, to
continue to guaranteed an rcu delay for security_sem_free().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170525185107.12869-14-manfred@colorfullife.com
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Instead of using ipc_rcu_alloc() which only performs the refcount bump,
open code it to perform better sem-specific checks. This also allows
for sem_array structure layout to be randomized in the future.
[manfred@colorfullife.com: Rediff, because the memset was temporarily inside ipc_rcu_alloc()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170525185107.12869-10-manfred@colorfullife.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Avoid using ipc_rcu_free, since it just re-finds the original structure
pointer. For the pre-list-init failure path, there is no RCU needed,
since it was just allocated. It can be directly freed.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170525185107.12869-6-manfred@colorfullife.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The only users of ipc_alloc() were ipc_rcu_alloc() and the on-heap
sem_io fall-back memory. Better to just open-code these to make things
easier to read.
[manfred@colorfullife.com: Rediff due to inclusion of memset() into ipc_rcu_alloc()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170525185107.12869-5-manfred@colorfullife.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ipc has two management structures that exist for every id:
- struct kern_ipc_perm, it contains e.g. the permissions.
- struct ipc_rcu, it contains the rcu head for rcu handling and the
refcount.
The patch merges both structures.
As a bonus, we may save one cacheline, because both structures are
cacheline aligned. In addition, it reduces the number of casts, instead
most codepaths can use container_of.
To simplify code, the ipc_rcu_alloc initializes the allocation to 0.
[manfred@colorfullife.com: really include the memset() into ipc_alloc_rcu()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/564f8612-0601-b267-514f-a9f650ec9b32@colorfullife.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170525185107.12869-3-manfred@colorfullife.com
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
sma->sem_base is initialized with
sma->sem_base = (struct sem *) &sma[1];
The current code has four problems:
- There is an unnecessary pointer dereference - sem_base is not needed.
- Alignment for struct sem only works by chance.
- The current code causes false positive for static code analysis.
- This is a cast between different non-void types, which the future
randstruct GCC plugin warns on.
And, as bonus, the code size gets smaller:
Before:
0 .text 00003770
After:
0 .text 0000374e
[manfred@colorfullife.com: s/[0]/[]/, per hch]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170525185107.12869-2-manfred@colorfullife.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170515171912.6298-2-manfred@colorfullife.com
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: <1vier1@web.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We are going to split <linux/sched/wake_q.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.
Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/wake_q.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
sysv sem has two lock modes: One with per-semaphore locks, one lock mode
with a single global lock for the whole array. When switching from the
per-semaphore locks to the global lock, all per-semaphore locks must be
scanned for ongoing operations.
The patch adds a hysteresis for switching from the global lock to the
per semaphore locks. This reduces how often the per-semaphore locks
must be scanned.
Compared to the initial patch, this is a simplified solution: Setting
USE_GLOBAL_LOCK_HYSTERESIS to 1 restores the current behavior.
In theory, a workload with exactly 10 simple sops and then one complex
op now scales a bit worse, but this is pure theory: If there is
concurrency, the it won't be exactly 10:1:10:1:10:1:... If there is no
concurrency, then there is no need for scalability.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476851896-3590-3-git-send-email-manfred@colorfullife.com
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <1vier1@web.de>
Cc: kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>
Cc: <felixh@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
a) The ACQUIRE in spin_lock() applies to the read, not to the store, at
least for powerpc. This forces to add a smp_mb() into the fast path.
b) The memory barrier provided by spin_unlock_wait() is right now arch
dependent.
Therefore: Use spin_lock()/spin_unlock() instead of spin_unlock_wait().
Advantage: faster single op semop calls(), observed +8.9% on x86. (the
other solution would be arch dependencies in ipc/sem).
Disadvantage: slower complex op semop calls, if (and only if) there are
no sleeping operations.
The next patch adds hysteresis, this further reduces the probability
that the slow path is used.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476851896-3590-2-git-send-email-manfred@colorfullife.com
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <1vier1@web.de>
Cc: kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>
Cc: <felixh@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Based on the syzcaller test case from dvyukov:
08d0a261fe/gistfile1.txt
The slow (i.e.: failure to acquire) syscall exit from semtimedop()
incorrectly assumed that the the same lock is acquired as it was at the
initial syscall entry.
This is wrong:
- thread A: single semop semop(), sleeps
- thread B: multi semop semop(), sleeps
- thread A: woken up by signal/timeout
With this sequence, the initial sem_lock() call locks the per-semaphore
spinlock, and it is unlocked with sem_unlock(). The call at the syscall
return locks the global spinlock. Because locknum is not updated, the
following sem_unlock() call unlocks the per-semaphore spinlock, which is
actually not locked.
The fix is trivial: Use the return value from sem_lock.
Fixes: 370b262c89 ("ipc/sem: avoid idr tree lookup for interrupted semop")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482215645-22328-1-git-send-email-manfred@colorfullife.com
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reported-by: Johanna Abrahamsson <johanna@mjao.org>
Tested-by: Johanna Abrahamsson <johanna@mjao.org>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We can avoid the idr tree lookup (albeit possibly avoiding
idr_find_fast()) when being awoken in EINTR, as the semid will not
change in this context while blocked. Use the sma pointer directly and
take the sem_lock, then re-check for RMID races. We continue to
re-check the queue.status with the lock held such that we can detect
situations where we where are dealing with a spurious wakeup but another
task that holds the sem_lock updated the queue.status while we were
spinning for it. Once we take the lock it obviously won't change again.
Being the only caller, get rid of sem_obtain_lock() altogether.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478708774-28826-3-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Instead of using the reverse goto, we can simplify the flow and make it
more language natural by just doing do-while instead. One would hope
this is the standard way (or obviously just with a while bucle) that we
do wait/wakeup handling in the kernel. The exact same logic is kept,
just more indented.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478708774-28826-2-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
... saves some LoC and looks cleaner than re-implementing the calls.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474225896-10066-6-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Acked-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The compiler already does this, but make it explicit. This helper is
really small and also used in update_queue's main loop, which is O(N^2)
scanning. Inline and avoid the function overhead.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474225896-10066-5-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is the main workhorse that deals with semop user calls such that
the waitforzero or semval update operations, on the set, can complete on
not as the sma currently stands. Currently, the set is iterated twice
(setting semval, then backwards for the sempid value). Slowpaths, and
particularly SEM_UNDO calls, must undo any altered sem when it is
detected that the caller must block or has errored-out.
With larger sets, there can occur situations where this involves a lot
of cycles and can obviously be a suboptimal use of cached resources in
shared memory. Ie, discarding CPU caches that are also calling semop
and have the sembuf cached (and can complete), while the current lock
holder doing the semop will block, error, or does a waitforzero
operation.
This patch proposes still iterating the set twice, but the first scan is
read-only, and we perform the actual updates afterward, once we know
that the call will succeed. In order to not suffer from the overhead of
dealing with sops that act on the same sem_num, such (rare) cases use
perform_atomic_semop_slow(), which is exactly what we have now.
Duplicates are detected before grabbing sem_lock, and uses simple a
32/64-bit hash array variable to based on the sem_num we are working on.
In addition add some comments to when we expect to the caller to block.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[colin.king@canonical.com: ensure we left shift a ULL rather than a 32 bit integer]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161028181129.7311-1-colin.king@canonical.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160921194603.GB21438@linux-80c1.suse
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Our sysv sems have been using the notion of lockless wakeups for a
while, ever since commit 0a2b9d4c79 ("ipc/sem.c: move wake_up_process
out of the spinlock section"), in order to reduce the sem_lock hold
times. This in-house pending queue can be replaced by wake_q (just like
all the rest of ipc now), in that it provides the following advantages:
o Simplifies and gets rid of unnecessary code.
o We get rid of the IN_WAKEUP complexities. Given that wake_q_add()
grabs reference to the task, if awoken due to an unrelated event,
between the wake_q_add() and wake_up_q() window, we cannot race with
sys_exit and the imminent call to wake_up_process().
o By not spinning IN_WAKEUP, we no longer need to disable preemption.
In consequence, the wakeup paths (after schedule(), that is) must
acknowledge an external signal/event, as well spurious wakeup occurring
during the pending wakeup window. Obviously no changes in semantics
that could be visible to the user. The fastpath is _only_ for when we
know for sure that we were awoken due to a the waker's successful semop
call (queue.status is not -EINTR).
On a 48-core Haswell, running the ipcscale 'waitforzero' test, the
following is seen with increasing thread counts:
v4.8-rc5 v4.8-rc5
semopv2
Hmean sembench-sem-2 574733.00 ( 0.00%) 578322.00 ( 0.62%)
Hmean sembench-sem-8 811708.00 ( 0.00%) 824689.00 ( 1.59%)
Hmean sembench-sem-12 842448.00 ( 0.00%) 845409.00 ( 0.35%)
Hmean sembench-sem-21 933003.00 ( 0.00%) 977748.00 ( 4.80%)
Hmean sembench-sem-48 935910.00 ( 0.00%) 1004759.00 ( 7.36%)
Hmean sembench-sem-79 937186.00 ( 0.00%) 983976.00 ( 4.99%)
Hmean sembench-sem-234 974256.00 ( 0.00%) 1060294.00 ( 8.83%)
Hmean sembench-sem-265 975468.00 ( 0.00%) 1016243.00 ( 4.18%)
Hmean sembench-sem-296 991280.00 ( 0.00%) 1042659.00 ( 5.18%)
Hmean sembench-sem-327 975415.00 ( 0.00%) 1029977.00 ( 5.59%)
Hmean sembench-sem-358 1014286.00 ( 0.00%) 1049624.00 ( 3.48%)
Hmean sembench-sem-389 972939.00 ( 0.00%) 1043127.00 ( 7.21%)
Hmean sembench-sem-420 981909.00 ( 0.00%) 1056747.00 ( 7.62%)
Hmean sembench-sem-451 990139.00 ( 0.00%) 1051609.00 ( 6.21%)
Hmean sembench-sem-482 965735.00 ( 0.00%) 1040313.00 ( 7.72%)
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: merge fix for WAKE_Q to DEFINE_WAKE_Q rename]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161122210410.5eca9fc2@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474225896-10066-3-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Acked-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
counterpart. At least whenever possible, as there is no harm in calling
it bogusly as we do now in a few places. Immediate error semop(2) paths
that are far from ever having the task block can be simplified and avoid
a few unnecessary loads on their way out of the call as it is not deeply
nested.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474225896-10066-2-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernel a softlockup was observed while the for loop in
exit_sem. Apparently it's possible for the loop to take quite a long time
and it doesn't have a scheduling point in it. Since the codes is
executing under an rcu read section this may also cause rcu stalls, which
in turn block synchronize_rcu operations, which more or less de-stabilises
the whole system.
Fix this by introducing a cond_resched() at the beginning of the loop.
So this patch fixes the following:
NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#10 stuck for 23s! [httpd:18119]
CPU: 10 PID: 18119 Comm: httpd Tainted: G O 4.4.20-clouder2 #6
Hardware name: Supermicro X10DRi/X10DRi, BIOS 1.1 04/14/2015
task: ffff88348d695280 ti: ffff881c95550000 task.ti: ffff881c95550000
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81614bc7>] [<ffffffff81614bc7>] _raw_spin_lock+0x17/0x30
RSP: 0018:ffff881c95553e40 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff883161b1eea8 RCX: 000000000000000d
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 000000000000000e RDI: ffff883161b1eea4
RBP: ffff881c95553ea0 R08: ffff881c95553e68 R09: ffff883fef376f88
R10: ffff881fffb58c20 R11: ffffea0072556600 R12: ffff883161b1eea0
R13: ffff88348d695280 R14: ffff883dec427000 R15: ffff8831621672a0
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff881fffb40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f3b3723e020 CR3: 0000000001c0a000 CR4: 00000000001406e0
Call Trace:
? exit_sem+0x7c/0x280
do_exit+0x338/0xb40
do_group_exit+0x43/0xd0
SyS_exit_group+0x14/0x20
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x16/0x6e
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1475154992-6363-1-git-send-email-kernel@kyup.com
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
Cc: Herton R. Krzesinski <herton@redhat.com>
Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 6d07b68ce1 ("ipc/sem.c: optimize sem_lock()") introduced a
race:
sem_lock has a fast path that allows parallel simple operations.
There are two reasons why a simple operation cannot run in parallel:
- a non-simple operations is ongoing (sma->sem_perm.lock held)
- a complex operation is sleeping (sma->complex_count != 0)
As both facts are stored independently, a thread can bypass the current
checks by sleeping in the right positions. See below for more details
(or kernel bugzilla 105651).
The patch fixes that by creating one variable (complex_mode)
that tracks both reasons why parallel operations are not possible.
The patch also updates stale documentation regarding the locking.
With regards to stable kernels:
The patch is required for all kernels that include the
commit 6d07b68ce1 ("ipc/sem.c: optimize sem_lock()") (3.10?)
The alternative is to revert the patch that introduced the race.
The patch is safe for backporting, i.e. it makes no assumptions
about memory barriers in spin_unlock_wait().
Background:
Here is the race of the current implementation:
Thread A: (simple op)
- does the first "sma->complex_count == 0" test
Thread B: (complex op)
- does sem_lock(): This includes an array scan. But the scan can't
find Thread A, because Thread A does not own sem->lock yet.
- the thread does the operation, increases complex_count,
drops sem_lock, sleeps
Thread A:
- spin_lock(&sem->lock), spin_is_locked(sma->sem_perm.lock)
- sleeps before the complex_count test
Thread C: (complex op)
- does sem_lock (no array scan, complex_count==1)
- wakes up Thread B.
- decrements complex_count
Thread A:
- does the complex_count test
Bug:
Now both thread A and thread C operate on the same array, without
any synchronization.
Fixes: 6d07b68ce1 ("ipc/sem.c: optimize sem_lock()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469123695-5661-1-git-send-email-manfred@colorfullife.com
Reported-by: <felixh@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <1vier1@web.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.10+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With the modified semantics of spin_unlock_wait() a number of
explicit barriers can be removed. Also update the comment for the
do_exit() usecase, as that was somewhat stale/obscure.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Introduce smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep(), this construct is not
uncommon, but the lack of this barrier is.
Use it to better express smp_rmb() uses in WRITE_ONCE(), the IPC
semaphore code and the qspinlock code.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
As indicated by bug#112271, Linux sets the sempid value upon semctl, and
not only for semop calls. However, within semctl we only do this for
SETVAL, leaving SETALL without updating the field, and therefore rather
inconsistent behavior when compared to other Unices.
There is really no documentation regarding this and therefore users
should not make assumptions. With this patch, along with updating
semctl.2 manpages, this scenario should become less ambiguous As such,
set sempid on SETALL cmd.
Also update some in-code documentation, specifying where the sempid is
set.
Passes ltp and custom testcase where a child (fork) does SETALL to the
set.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Reported-by: Philip Semanchuk <linux_kernel.20.ick@spamgourmet.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Herton R. Krzesinski <herton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are many locations that do
if (memory_was_allocated_by_vmalloc)
vfree(ptr);
else
kfree(ptr);
but kvfree() can handle both kmalloc()ed memory and vmalloc()ed memory
using is_vmalloc_addr(). Unless callers have special reasons, we can
replace this branch with kvfree(). Please check and reply if you found
problems.
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com>
Cc: Boris Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
sem_lock() did not properly pair memory barriers:
!spin_is_locked() and spin_unlock_wait() are both only control barriers.
The code needs an acquire barrier, otherwise the cpu might perform read
operations before the lock test.
As no primitive exists inside <include/spinlock.h> and since it seems
noone wants another primitive, the code creates a local primitive within
ipc/sem.c.
With regards to -stable:
The change of sem_wait_array() is a bugfix, the change to sem_lock() is a
nop (just a preprocessor redefinition to improve the readability). The
bugfix is necessary for all kernels that use sem_wait_array() (i.e.:
starting from 3.10).
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.10+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
After we acquire the sma->sem_perm lock in exit_sem(), we are protected
against a racing IPC_RMID operation. Also at that point, we are the last
user of sem_undo_list. Therefore it isn't required that we acquire or use
ulp->lock.
Signed-off-by: Herton R. Krzesinski <herton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
CC: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Cc: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
... to ipc_obtain_object_idr, which is more meaningful and makes the code
slightly easier to follow.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The seq_printf return value, because it's frequently misused,
will eventually be converted to void.
See: commit 1f33c41c03 ("seq_file: Rename seq_overflow() to
seq_has_overflowed() and make public")
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Call __set_current_state() instead of assigning the new state directly.
These interfaces also aid CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP environments, keeping
track of who changed the state.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When I fixed bugs in the sem_lock() logic, I was more conservative than
necessary. Therefore it is safe to replace the smp_mb() with smp_rmb().
And: With smp_rmb(), semop() syscalls are up to 10% faster.
The race we must protect against is:
sem->lock is free
sma->complex_count = 0
sma->sem_perm.lock held by thread B
thread A:
A: spin_lock(&sem->lock)
B: sma->complex_count++; (now 1)
B: spin_unlock(&sma->sem_perm.lock);
A: spin_is_locked(&sma->sem_perm.lock);
A: XXXXX memory barrier
A: if (sma->complex_count == 0)
Thread A must read the increased complex_count value, i.e. the read must
not be reordered with the read of sem_perm.lock done by spin_is_locked().
Since it's about ordering of reads, smp_rmb() is sufficient.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: update sem_lock() comment, from Davidlohr]
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ipc_addid() makes a new ipc identifier visible to everyone. New objects
start as locked, so that the caller can complete the initialization
after the call. Within struct sem_array, at least sma->sem_base and
sma->sem_nsems are accessed without any locks, therefore this approach
doesn't work.
Thus: Move the ipc_addid() to the end of the initialization.
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Reported-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The actual Linux implementation for semctl(GETNCNT) and semctl(GETZCNT)
always (since 0.99.10) reported a thread as sleeping on all semaphores
that are listed in the semop() call.
The documented behavior (both in the Linux man page and in the Single
Unix Specification) is that a task should be reported on exactly one
semaphore: The semaphore that caused the thread to got to sleep.
This patch adds a pr_info_once() that is triggered if a thread hits the
relevant case.
The code triggers slightly too often, otherwise it would be necessary to
replicate the old code. As there are no known users of GETNCNT or
GETZCNT, this is done to prevent unnecessary bloat.
The task that triggered is reported with name (tsk->comm) and pid.
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
SUSv4 clearly defines how semncnt and semzcnt must be calculated: A task
waits on exactly one semaphore: The semaphore from the first operation
in the sop array that cannot proceed.
The Linux implementation never followed the standard, it tried to count
all semaphores that might be the reason why a task sleeps.
This patch fixes that.
Note:
a) The implementation assumes that GETNCNT and GETZCNT are rare operations,
therefore the code counts them only on demand.
(If they wouldn't be rare, then the non-compliance would have
been found earlier)
b) compared to the initial version of the patch, the BUG_ONs were removed
and it was clarified that the new behavior conforms to SUS.
Back-compatibility concerns:
Manfred:
: - there is no application in Fedora that uses GETNCNT or GETZCNT.
:
: - application that use only single-sop semop() are also safe, the
: difference only affects complex apps.
:
: - portable application are also safe, the new behavior is standard
: compliant.
:
: But that's it. The old behavior existed in Linux from 0.99.something
: until now.
Michael:
: * These operations seem to be very little used. Grepping the public
: source that is contained Fedora 20 source DVD, there appear to be no
: uses. Of course, this says nothing about uses in private /
: non-mainstream FOSS code, but it seems likely that the same pattern
: is followed there.
:
: * The existing behavior is hard enough to understand that I suspect
: that no one understood it well enough to rely on it anyway
: (especially as that behavior contradicted both man page and POSIX).
:
: So, there's a chance of breakage, but I estimate that it's minute.
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
