08 May, 2007
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I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL. It is only supported by
SLAB.I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed
to verify that the state is the constructor state again? The callback is
performed before each freeing of an object.I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually
before the free. That also places the check near the code object
manipulation of the object.Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was
compiled with SLAB debugging on. If there would be code in a constructor
handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on
SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code. But there is no such code
in the kernel. I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real
use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the
same effect (i.e. add debug code before kfree).There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be
clear in fs inode caches. Remove the pointless checks (they would even be
pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors.This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support. Remove the check for
unimplemented flags from SLUB.Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
15 Feb, 2007
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With this change the sysctl inodes can be cached and nothing needs to be done
when removing a sysctl table.For a cost of 2K code we will save about 4K of static tables (when we remove
de from ctl_table) and 70K in proc_dir_entries that we will not allocate, or
about half that on a 32bit arch.The speed feels about the same, even though we can now cache the sysctl
dentries :(We get the core advantage that we don't need to have a 1 to 1 mapping between
ctl table entries and proc files. Making it possible to have /proc/sys vary
depending on the namespace you are in. The currently merged namespaces don't
have an issue here but the network namespace under /proc/sys/net needs to have
different directories depending on which network adapters are visible. By
simply being a cache different directories being visible depending on who you
are is trivial to implement.[akpm@osdl.org: fix uninitialised var]
[akpm@osdl.org: fix ARM build]
[bunk@stusta.de: make things static]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Cc: Russell King
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Feb, 2007
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This patch is inspired by Arjan's "Patch series to mark struct
file_operations and struct inode_operations const".Compile tested with gcc & sparse.
Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Dec, 2006
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Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.
The patch was generated using the following script:
#!/bin/sh
#
# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
#set -e
for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
quilt add $file
sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
mv /tmp/$$ $file
quilt refresh
doneThe script was run like this
sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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SLAB_KERNEL is an alias of GFP_KERNEL.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
16 Jul, 2006
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Not that we really need this any more, but at the same time there's no
reason not to do this.Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Jun, 2006
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Incrementally update my proc-dont-lock-task_structs-indefinitely patches so
that they work with struct pid instead of struct task_ref.Mostly this is a straight 1-1 substitution.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Every inode in /proc holds a reference to a struct task_struct. If a
directory or file is opened and remains open after the the task exits this
pinning continues. With 8K stacks on a 32bit machine the amount pinned per
file descriptor is about 10K.Normally I would figure a reasonable per user process limit is about 100
processes. With 80 processes, with a 1000 file descriptors each I can trigger
the 00M killer on a 32bit kernel, because I have pinned about 800MB of useless
data.This patch replaces the struct task_struct pointer with a pointer to a struct
task_ref which has a struct task_struct pointer. The so the pinning of dead
tasks does not happen.The code now has to contend with the fact that the task may now exit at any
time. Which is a little but not muh more complicated.With this change it takes about 1000 processes each opening up 1000 file
descriptors before I can trigger the OOM killer. Much better.[mlp@google.com: task_mmu small fixes]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Cc: Trond Myklebust
Cc: Paul Jackson
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Albert Cahalan
Signed-off-by: Prasanna Meda
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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The sole renaming use of proc_inode.type is to discover the file descriptor
number, so just store the file descriptor number and don't wory about
processing this field. This removes any /proc limits on the maximum number of
file descriptors, and clears the path to make the hard coded /proc inode
numbers go away.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
24 Mar, 2006
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Rewrap the overly long source code lines resulting from the previous
patch's addition of the slab cache flag SLAB_MEM_SPREAD. This patch
contains only formatting changes, and no function change.Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Mark file system inode and similar slab caches subject to SLAB_MEM_SPREAD
memory spreading.If a slab cache is marked SLAB_MEM_SPREAD, then anytime that a task that's
in a cpuset with the 'memory_spread_slab' option enabled goes to allocate
from such a slab cache, the allocations are spread evenly over all the
memory nodes (task->mems_allowed) allowed to that task, instead of favoring
allocation on the node local to the current cpu.The following inode and similar caches are marked SLAB_MEM_SPREAD:
file cache
==== =====
fs/adfs/super.c adfs_inode_cache
fs/affs/super.c affs_inode_cache
fs/befs/linuxvfs.c befs_inode_cache
fs/bfs/inode.c bfs_inode_cache
fs/block_dev.c bdev_cache
fs/cifs/cifsfs.c cifs_inode_cache
fs/coda/inode.c coda_inode_cache
fs/dquot.c dquot
fs/efs/super.c efs_inode_cache
fs/ext2/super.c ext2_inode_cache
fs/ext2/xattr.c (fs/mbcache.c) ext2_xattr
fs/ext3/super.c ext3_inode_cache
fs/ext3/xattr.c (fs/mbcache.c) ext3_xattr
fs/fat/cache.c fat_cache
fs/fat/inode.c fat_inode_cache
fs/freevxfs/vxfs_super.c vxfs_inode
fs/hpfs/super.c hpfs_inode_cache
fs/isofs/inode.c isofs_inode_cache
fs/jffs/inode-v23.c jffs_fm
fs/jffs2/super.c jffs2_i
fs/jfs/super.c jfs_ip
fs/minix/inode.c minix_inode_cache
fs/ncpfs/inode.c ncp_inode_cache
fs/nfs/direct.c nfs_direct_cache
fs/nfs/inode.c nfs_inode_cache
fs/ntfs/super.c ntfs_big_inode_cache_name
fs/ntfs/super.c ntfs_inode_cache
fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmfs.c dlmfs_inode_cache
fs/ocfs2/super.c ocfs2_inode_cache
fs/proc/inode.c proc_inode_cache
fs/qnx4/inode.c qnx4_inode_cache
fs/reiserfs/super.c reiser_inode_cache
fs/romfs/inode.c romfs_inode_cache
fs/smbfs/inode.c smb_inode_cache
fs/sysv/inode.c sysv_inode_cache
fs/udf/super.c udf_inode_cache
fs/ufs/super.c ufs_inode_cache
net/socket.c sock_inode_cache
net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c rpc_inode_cacheThe choice of which slab caches to so mark was quite simple. I marked
those already marked SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT, except for fs/xfs, dentry_cache,
inode_cache, and buffer_head, which were marked in a previous patch. Even
though SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT is for a different purpose, it marks the same
potentially large file system i/o related slab caches as we need for memory
spreading.Given that the rule now becomes "wherever you would have used a
SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT slab cache flag before (usually the inode cache), use
the SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag too", this should be easy enough to maintain.
Future file system writers will just copy one of the existing file system
slab cache setups and tend to get it right without thinking.Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
19 Feb, 2006
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1) it should use nr_processes(), not nr_threads; otherwise we are getting
very confused find(1) and friends, among other things.
2) better do that at stat() time than at every damn lookup in procfs root.Patch had been sitting in FC4 kernels for many months now...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
09 Jan, 2006
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Function prototypes belong into header files.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
31 Oct, 2005
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This patch fixes incorrect error path in proc_get_inode(), when module
can't be get due to being unloaded. When try_module_get() fails, this
function puts de(!) and still returns inode with non-getted de.There are still unresolved known bugs in proc yet to be fixed:
- proc_dir_entry tree is managed without any serialization
- create_proc_entry() doesn't setup de->owner anyhow,
so setting it later manually is inatomic.
- looks like almost all modules do not care whether
it's de->owner is set...Signed-Off-By: Denis Lunev
Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
10 Sep, 2005
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Update the file systems in fs/ implementing a delete_inode() callback to
call truncate_inode_pages(). One implementation note: In developing this
patch I put the calls to truncate_inode_pages() at the very top of those
filesystems delete_inode() callbacks in order to retain the previous
behavior. I'm guessing that some of those could probably be optimized.Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Apr, 2005
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Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.Let it rip!
