From 4a674f34ba04a002244edaf891b5da7fc1473ae8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stanislav Kinsbursky Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 15:34:55 -0800 Subject: 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 Cc: Serge Hallyn Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Al Viro Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Michael Kerrisk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/uapi/linux/msg.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/msg.h') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/msg.h b/include/uapi/linux/msg.h index 78dbd2f996a..22d95c6854e 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/msg.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/msg.h @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ /* msgrcv options */ #define MSG_NOERROR 010000 /* no error if message is too big */ #define MSG_EXCEPT 020000 /* recv any msg except of specified type.*/ +#define MSG_COPY 040000 /* copy (not remove) all queue messages */ /* Obsolete, used only for backwards compatibility and libc5 compiles */ struct msqid_ds { -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2