ipc: merge ipc_rcu and kern_ipc_perm
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>
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- include/linux/ipc.h 3 additions, 0 deletionsinclude/linux/ipc.h
- ipc/msg.c 11 additions, 8 deletionsipc/msg.c
- ipc/sem.c 17 additions, 17 deletionsipc/sem.c
- ipc/shm.c 11 additions, 7 deletionsipc/shm.c
- ipc/util.c 17 additions, 18 deletionsipc/util.c
- ipc/util.h 7 additions, 11 deletionsipc/util.h
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