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authorManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>2017-07-12 14:34:44 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-07-12 16:26:01 -0700
commit2cd648c110b5570c3280bd645797658cabbe5f5c (patch)
tree6e2cec72bf778d0fb2145b12b72871968dcb93d8 /include/uapi
parentdba4cdd39e698d8dcdad0656825423052ac90ccd (diff)
include/linux/sem.h: correctly document sem_ctime
sem_ctime is initialized to the semget() time and then updated at every semctl() that changes the array. Thus it does not represent the time of the last change. Especially, semop() calls are only stored in sem_otime, not in sem_ctime. This is already described in ipc/sem.c, I just overlooked that there is a comment in include/linux/sem.h and man semctl(2) as well. So: Correct wrong comments. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170515171912.6298-4-manfred@colorfullife.com Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: <1vier1@web.de> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/sem.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/sem.h b/include/uapi/linux/sem.h
index dd73b908b2f3..67eb90361692 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/sem.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/sem.h
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
struct semid_ds {
struct ipc_perm sem_perm; /* permissions .. see ipc.h */
__kernel_time_t sem_otime; /* last semop time */
- __kernel_time_t sem_ctime; /* last change time */
+ __kernel_time_t sem_ctime; /* create/last semctl() time */
struct sem *sem_base; /* ptr to first semaphore in array */
struct sem_queue *sem_pending; /* pending operations to be processed */
struct sem_queue **sem_pending_last; /* last pending operation */