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| author | Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> | 2010-05-22 00:36:56 -0600 |
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| committer | Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> | 2010-05-22 00:36:56 -0600 |
| commit | cf9b59e9d3e008591d1f54830f570982bb307a0d (patch) | |
| tree | 113478ce8fd8c832ba726ffdf59b82cb46356476 /Documentation/credentials.txt | |
| parent | 44504b2bebf8b5823c59484e73096a7d6574471d (diff) | |
| parent | f4b87dee923342505e1ddba8d34ce9de33e75050 (diff) | |
Merge remote branch 'origin' into secretlab/next-devicetree
Merging in current state of Linus' tree to deal with merge conflicts and
build failures in vio.c after merge.
Conflicts:
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-cpm.c
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c
drivers/net/gianfar.c
Also fixed up one line in arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c to use the
correct node pointer.
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/credentials.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/credentials.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/credentials.txt b/Documentation/credentials.txt index df03169782ea..a2db35287003 100644 --- a/Documentation/credentials.txt +++ b/Documentation/credentials.txt @@ -408,9 +408,6 @@ This should be used inside the RCU read lock, as in the following example: ... } -A function need not get RCU read lock to use __task_cred() if it is holding a -spinlock at the time as this implicitly holds the RCU read lock. - Should it be necessary to hold another task's credentials for a long period of time, and possibly to sleep whilst doing so, then the caller should get a reference on them using: @@ -426,17 +423,16 @@ credentials, hiding the RCU magic from the caller: uid_t task_uid(task) Task's real UID uid_t task_euid(task) Task's effective UID -If the caller is holding a spinlock or the RCU read lock at the time anyway, -then: +If the caller is holding the RCU read lock at the time anyway, then: __task_cred(task)->uid __task_cred(task)->euid should be used instead. Similarly, if multiple aspects of a task's credentials -need to be accessed, RCU read lock or a spinlock should be used, __task_cred() -called, the result stored in a temporary pointer and then the credential -aspects called from that before dropping the lock. This prevents the -potentially expensive RCU magic from being invoked multiple times. +need to be accessed, RCU read lock should be used, __task_cred() called, the +result stored in a temporary pointer and then the credential aspects called +from that before dropping the lock. This prevents the potentially expensive +RCU magic from being invoked multiple times. Should some other single aspect of another task's credentials need to be accessed, then this can be used: |