The Linux Manuals (man pages) document is an important part of Linux documents. Linux Manuals are organized as several sections. Each section has a group of commands for a specific area in Linux usage, administration or development.
ipc_init – initialise ipc subsystem Synopsis int ipc_init(void); Arguments void no arguments Description The various sysv ipc resources (semaphores, messages and shared memory) are initialised. A callback routine is registered into the memory hotplug notifier chain: since msgmni scales to lowmem this callback routine will be called upon successful memory add / remove to recompute…
ipc_get_maxid – get the last assigned id Synopsis int ipc_get_maxid(struct ipc_ids *ids); Arguments ids ipc identifier set Description Called with ipc_ids.rwsem held. Copyright
ipc_free – free ipc space Synopsis void ipc_free(void *ptr); Arguments ptr pointer returned by ipc_alloc Description Free a block created with ipc_alloc. Copyright
ipc_findkey – find a key in an ipc identifier set Synopsis struct kern_ipc_perm *ipc_findkey(struct ipc_ids *ids, key_t key); Arguments ids ipc identifier set key key to find Description Returns the locked pointer to the ipc structure if found or NULL otherwise. If key is found ipc points to the owning ipc structure Called with ipc_ids.rwsem…
ipc_check_perms – check security and permissions for an ipc object Synopsis int ipc_check_perms(struct ipc_namespace *ns, struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcp, const struct ipc_ops *ops, struct ipc_params *params); Arguments ns ipc namespace ipcp ipc permission set ops the actual security routine to call params its parameters Description This routine is called by sys_msgget, sys_semget and sys_shmget when the…
ipc_alloc – allocate ipc space Synopsis void *ipc_alloc(int size); Arguments size size desired Description Allocate memory from the appropriate pools and return a pointer to it. NULL is returned if the allocation fails Copyright
ipc_addid – add an ipc identifier Synopsis int ipc_addid(struct ipc_ids *ids, struct kern_ipc_perm *new, int size); Arguments ids ipc identifier set new new ipc permission set size limit for the number of used ids Description Add an entry ‘new’ to the ipc ids idr. The permissions object is initialised and the first free entry is…
ipc64_perm_to_ipc_perm – convert new ipc permissions to old Synopsis void ipc64_perm_to_ipc_perm(struct ipc64_perm *in, struct ipc_perm *out); Arguments in new style ipc permissions out old style ipc permissions Description Turn the new style permissions object in into a compatibility object and store it into the out pointer. Copyright
ioremap_nocache – map bus memory into CPU space Synopsis void __iomem *ioremap_nocache(resource_size_t offset, unsigned long size); Arguments offset bus address of the memory size size of the resource to map Description ioremap performs a platform specific sequence of operations to make bus memory CPU accessible via the readb/readw/readl/writeb/ writew/writel functions and the other mmio helpers….
invalidate_mapping_pages – Invalidate all the unlocked pages of one inode Synopsis unsigned long invalidate_mapping_pages(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end); Arguments mapping the address_space which holds the pages to invalidate start the offset ‘from’ which to invalidate end the offset ‘to’ which to invalidate (inclusive) Description This function only removes the unlocked pages, if you…
invalidate_inode_pages2_range – remove range of pages from an address_space Synopsis int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end); Arguments mapping the address_space start the page offset ‘from’ which to invalidate end the page offset ‘to’ which to invalidate (inclusive) Description Any pages which are found to be mapped into pagetables are unmapped prior to invalidation….
invalidate_inode_pages2 – remove all pages from an address_space Synopsis int invalidate_inode_pages2(struct address_space *mapping); Arguments mapping the address_space Description Any pages which are found to be mapped into pagetables are unmapped prior to invalidation. Returns -EBUSY if any pages could not be invalidated. Copyright
insert_resource_expand_to_fit – Insert a resource into the resource tree Synopsis void insert_resource_expand_to_fit(struct resource *root, struct resource *new); Arguments root root resource descriptor new new resource to insert Description Insert a resource into the resource tree, possibly expanding it in order to make it encompass any conflicting resources. Copyright
insert_resource_conflict – Inserts resource in the resource tree Synopsis struct resource *insert_resource_conflict(struct resource *parent, struct resource *new); Arguments parent parent of the new resource new new resource to insert Description Returns 0 on success, conflict resource if the resource can’t be inserted. This function is equivalent to request_resource_conflict when no conflict happens. If a conflict…
insert_resource – Inserts a resource in the resource tree Synopsis int insert_resource(struct resource *parent, struct resource *new); Arguments parent parent of the new resource new new resource to insert Description Returns 0 on success, -EBUSY if the resource can’t be inserted. This function is intended for producers of resources, such as FW modules and bus…
inode_sb_list_add – add inode to the superblock list of inodes Synopsis void inode_sb_list_add(struct inode *inode); Arguments inode inode to add Copyright
inode_permission – Check for access rights to a given inode Synopsis int inode_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask); Arguments inode Inode to check permission on mask Right to check for (MAY_READ, MAY_WRITE, MAY_EXEC) Description Check for read/write/execute permissions on an inode. We use fs[ug]id for this, letting us set arbitrary permissions for filesystem access without changing…
inode_owner_or_capable – check current task permissions to inode Synopsis bool inode_owner_or_capable(const struct inode * inode); Arguments inode inode being checked Description Return true if current either has CAP_FOWNER in a namespace with the inode owner uid mapped, or owns the file. Copyright
inode_init_owner – Init uid,gid,mode for new inode according to posix standards Synopsis void inode_init_owner(struct inode *inode, const struct inode *dir, umode_t mode); Arguments inode New inode dir Directory inode mode mode of the new inode Copyright
inode_init_always – perform inode structure intialisation Synopsis int inode_init_always(struct super_block *sb, struct inode *inode); Arguments sb superblock inode belongs to inode inode to initialise Description These are initializations that need to be done on every inode allocation as the fields are not initialised by slab allocation. Copyright