[Devel] Re: [PATCH 2.6.24-rc3-mm1] IPC: consolidate sem_exit_ns(), msg_exit_ns and shm_exit_ns()

Andrew Morton akpm at linux-foundation.org
Mon Nov 26 22:44:38 PST 2007


On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:52:50 +0100 Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer at 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.

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