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ipc: introduce message queue copy feature
authorStanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Sat, 3 Nov 2012 00:43:05 +0000 (11:43 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 7 Nov 2012 04:15:34 +0000 (15:15 +1100)
commit9aae2bc5088ff111c65048fe9262059ee403ca08
tree86c0f6a5fe22022c09979a4b736e7ac097dd52ba
parentc0ce17538b02487b36afd09998627e29c1468245
ipc: introduce message queue copy feature

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