10 Mar, 2011
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Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
07 Jan, 2011
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RCU free the struct inode. This will allow:
- Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for
permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must.
- sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want
to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in
the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking.
- Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code
- Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the
page lock to follow page->mapping.The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple
creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to
reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts
kicking over, this increases to about 20%.In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated
during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is
not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller.The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking,
so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in
real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I
doubt it will be a problem.Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
29 Oct, 2010
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... and switch of the obvious get_sb_bdev() users to ->mount()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
22 Oct, 2010
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All uses of the BKL in qnx4 were the result of a pushdown into
code that doesn't really need it. As Christoph points out, this
is a read-only file system, which eliminates most of the races in
readdir/lookup.Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Acked-by: Anders Larsen
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
05 Oct, 2010
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This patch is a preparation necessary to remove the BKL from do_new_mount().
It explicitly adds calls to lock_kernel()/unlock_kernel() around
get_sb/fill_super operations for filesystems that still uses the BKL.I've read through all the code formerly covered by the BKL inside
do_kern_mount() and have satisfied myself that it doesn't need the BKL
any more.do_kern_mount() is already called without the BKL when mounting the rootfs
and in nfsctl. do_kern_mount() calls vfs_kern_mount(), which is called
from various places without BKL: simple_pin_fs(), nfs_do_clone_mount()
through nfs_follow_mountpoint(), afs_mntpt_do_automount() through
afs_mntpt_follow_link(). Both later functions are actually the filesystems
follow_link inode operation. vfs_kern_mount() is calling the specified
get_sb function and lets the filesystem do its job by calling the given
fill_super function.Therefore I think it is safe to push down the BKL from the VFS to the
low-level filesystems get_sb/fill_super operation.[arnd: do not add the BKL to those file systems that already
don't use it elsewhere]Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
10 Aug, 2010
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Move the call to vmtruncate to get rid of accessive blocks to the callers
in preparation of the new truncate sequence and rename the non-truncating
version to cont_write_begin.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
28 May, 2010
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We don't name our generic fsync implementations very well currently.
The no-op implementation for in-memory filesystems currently is called
simple_sync_file which doesn't make too much sense to start with,
the the generic one for simple filesystems is called simple_fsync
which can lead to some confusion.This patch renames the generic file fsync method to generic_file_fsync
to match the other generic_file_* routines it is supposed to be used
with, and the no-op implementation to noop_fsync to make it obvious
what to expect. In addition add some documentation for both methods.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
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Do not use the fallback default_llseek() if the readdir operation of the
filesystem still uses the big kernel lock.Since llseek() modifies
file->f_pos of the directory directly it may need locking to not confuse
readdir which usually uses file->f_pos directly as wellSince the special characteristics of the BKL (unlocked on schedule) are
not necessary in this case, the inode mutex can be used for locking as
provided by generic_file_llseek(). This is only possible since all
filesystems, except reiserfs, either use a directory as a flat file or
with disk address offsets. Reiserfs on the other hand uses a 32bit hash
off the filename as the offset so generic_file_llseek() can get used as
well since the hash is always smaller than sb->s_maxbytes (= (512 << 32) -
blocksize).Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck
Acked-by: Jan Kara
Acked-by: Anders Larsen
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
04 Feb, 2010
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As an identical match is wanted in this case, strcmp can be used instead.
The semantic match that lead to detecting this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)//
@@
expression foo;
constant char *abc;
@@*strncmp(foo, abc, sizeof(abc))
//Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall
Signed-off-by: Anders Larsen
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
16 Dec, 2009
2 commits
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Use hweight8 instead of counting for each bit
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
Acked-by: Anders Larsen
Cc: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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commit 945ffe54bbd56ceed62de3b908800fd7c6ffb284 ("qnx4: remove write support") removed the (defunct)
write support but missed a chunk of related, dead code.Signed-off-by: Anders Larsen
Cc: Jiri Kosina
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Nov, 2009
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fixed printk calls to consistently specify a KERN_xxx level.
Signed-off-by: Anders Larsen
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
23 Sep, 2009
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qnx4 wrte support has never been fully implement, is broken since the dawn
of time and hasn't been actively developed since before git history
started.Instead of letting it further bitrot and complicate API transition (like
the new truncate code) remove it.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Anders Larsen
Cc: Nick Piggin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Jun, 2009
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fs-internal parts of qnx4_fs.h taken to fs/qnx4/qnx4.h, includes adjusted,
qnx4_fs.h doesn't need unifdef anymore.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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* have directory operations use mark_buffer_dirty_inode(),
so that sync_mapping_buffers() would get those.
* make qnx4_write_inode() honour its last argument.
* get rid of insane copies of very ancient "walk the indirect blocks"
in qnx4/fsync - they never matched the actual fs layout and, fortunately,
never'd been called. Again, all this junk is not needed; ->fsync()
should just do sync_mapping_buffers + sync_inode (and if we implement
block allocation for qnx4, we'll need to use mark_buffer_dirty_inode()
for extent blocks)Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
03 Apr, 2009
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Make qnx4 file system return f_fsid info for statfs(2).
Signed-off-by: Coly Li
Acked-by: Anders Larsen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
22 Jan, 2009
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
27 Jul, 2008
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Kmem cache passed to constructor is only needed for constructors that are
themselves multiplexeres. Nobody uses this "feature", nor does anybody uses
passed kmem cache in non-trivial way, so pass only pointer to object.Non-trivial places are:
arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.cThis is flag day, yes.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Jon Tollefson
Cc: Nick Piggin
Cc: Matt Mackall
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/slab.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ubifs]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Feb, 2008
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Stop the QNX4 filesystem from using iget() and read_inode(). Replace
qnx4_read_inode() with qnx4_iget(), and call that instead of iget().
qnx4_iget() then uses iget_locked() directly and returns a proper error code
instead of an inode in the event of an error.qnx4_fill_super() returns any error incurred when getting the root inode
instead of EINVAL.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Cc: Anders Larsen
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Oct, 2007
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Slab constructors currently have a flags parameter that is never used. And
the order of the arguments is opposite to other slab functions. The object
pointer is placed before the kmem_cache pointer.Convert
ctor(void *object, struct kmem_cache *s, unsigned long flags)
to
ctor(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)
throughout the kernel
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coupla fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
Acked-by: Anders Larsen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 Jul, 2007
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Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f222d44bb7e2f0a559f2906191a0862d7 change. They've been
BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
either.This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
or the documentation references).Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt
10 Jul, 2007
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They can use generic_file_splice_read() instead. Since sys_sendfile() now
prefers that, there should be no change in behaviour.Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
