27 May, 2011
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This third patch of eight in this cleancache series provides
the core code for cleancache that interfaces between the hooks in
VFS and individual filesystems and a cleancache backend. It also
includes build and config patches.Two new files are added: mm/cleancache.c and include/linux/cleancache.h.
Note that CONFIG_CLEANCACHE can default to on; in systems that do
not provide a cleancache backend, all hooks devolve to a simple
check of a global enable flag, so performance impact should
be negligible but can be reduced to zero impact if config'ed off.
However for this first commit, it defaults to off.Details and a FAQ can be found in Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt
Credits: Cleancache_ops design derived from Jeremy Fitzhardinge
design for tmem[v8: dan.magenheimer@oracle.com: fix exportfs call affecting btrfs]
[v8: akpm@linux-foundation.org: use static inline function, not macro]
[v7: dan.magenheimer@oracle.com: cleanup sysfs and remove cleancache prefix]
[v6: JBeulich@novell.com: robustly handle buggy fs encode_fh actor definition]
[v5: jeremy@goop.org: clean up global usage and static var names]
[v5: jeremy@goop.org: simplify init hook and any future fs init changes]
[v5: hch@infradead.org: cleaner non-global interface for ops registration]
[v4: adilger@sun.com: interface must support exportfs FS's]
[v4: hch@infradead.org: interface must support 64-bit FS on 32-bit kernel]
[v3: akpm@linux-foundation.org: use one ops struct to avoid pointer hops]
[v3: akpm@linux-foundation.org: document and ensure PageLocked reqts are met]
[v3: ngupta@vflare.org: fix success/fail codes, change funcs to void]
[v2: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk: use sane types]
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Acked-by: Al Viro
Acked-by: Andrew Morton
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta
Acked-by: Minchan Kim
Acked-by: Andreas Dilger
Acked-by: Jan Beulich
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Nick Piggin
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Rik Van Riel
Cc: Chris Mason
Cc: Ted Ts'o
Cc: Mark Fasheh
Cc: Joel Becker
