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ipc: message queue copy feature introduced
authorStanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 01:15:18 +0000 (12:15 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:14:53 +0000 (14:14 +1100)
commitda6dc53bcf9c3d592518cd5c5439981a356eef4b
tree1c50da2d0c70e519b8550e36408a7b642e6713df
parentef083bad29e26846fd04f2d58355df88d22c3021
ipc: message queue copy feature introduced

This patch is required for checkpoint/restore in userspace.

c/r requires some way to get all pending IPC messages without deleting
them from the queue (checkpoint can fail and in this case tasks will be
resumed, so queue have to be valid).

To achive this, new operation flag MSG_COPY for sys_msgrcv() system call
was introduced.  If this flag was specified, then mtype is interpreted as
number of the message to copy.

If MSG_COPY is set, then kernel will allocate dummy message with passed
size, and then use new copy_msg() helper function to copy desired message
(instead of unlinking it from the queue).

Notes:

1) Return -ENOSYS if MSG_COPY is specified, but
   CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE is not set.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/uapi/linux/msg.h
ipc/msg.c
ipc/msgutil.c
ipc/util.h