ipc/util.c, ipc_rcu_alloc: cacheline align allocation
authorManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Mon, 8 Jul 2013 23:01:20 +0000 (16:01 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:45:46 +0000 (07:45 -0700)
commit 196aa0132fc7261f34b10ae1bfb44abc1bc69b3c upstream.

Enforce that ipc_rcu_alloc returns a cacheline aligned pointer on SMP.

Rationale:

The SysV sem code tries to move the main spinlock into a seperate
cacheline (____cacheline_aligned_in_smp).  This works only if
ipc_rcu_alloc returns cacheline aligned pointers.  vmalloc and kmalloc
return cacheline algined pointers, the implementation of ipc_rcu_alloc
breaks that.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
ipc/util.c

index a0c139f..4704223 100644 (file)
@@ -468,9 +468,7 @@ void ipc_free(void* ptr, int size)
 struct ipc_rcu {
        struct rcu_head rcu;
        atomic_t refcount;
-       /* "void *" makes sure alignment of following data is sane. */
-       void *data[0];
-};
+} ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
 
 /**
  *     ipc_rcu_alloc   -       allocate ipc and rcu space 
@@ -488,12 +486,14 @@ void *ipc_rcu_alloc(int size)
        if (unlikely(!out))
                return NULL;
        atomic_set(&out->refcount, 1);
-       return out->data;
+       return out + 1;
 }
 
 int ipc_rcu_getref(void *ptr)
 {
-       return atomic_inc_not_zero(&container_of(ptr, struct ipc_rcu, data)->refcount);
+       struct ipc_rcu *p = ((struct ipc_rcu *)ptr) - 1;
+
+       return atomic_inc_not_zero(&p->refcount);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ static void ipc_schedule_free(struct rcu_head *head)
 
 void ipc_rcu_putref(void *ptr)
 {
-       struct ipc_rcu *p = container_of(ptr, struct ipc_rcu, data);
+       struct ipc_rcu *p = ((struct ipc_rcu *)ptr) - 1;
 
        if (!atomic_dec_and_test(&p->refcount))
                return;