22 May, 2007

1 commit

  • First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline
    function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock()
    mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why.

    This patch
    a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h
    b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c
    c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation
    d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly.
    e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were
    getting them indirectly

    Net result is:
    a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if
    they don't need sched.h
    b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files:
    on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files,
    after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%).

    Cross-compile tested on

    all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs,
    alpha alpha-up
    arm
    i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig
    ia64 ia64-up
    m68k
    mips
    parisc parisc-up
    powerpc powerpc-up
    s390 s390-up
    sparc sparc-up
    sparc64 sparc64-up
    um-x86_64
    x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig

    as well as my two usual configs.

    Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Alexey Dobriyan
     

21 Feb, 2007

1 commit

  • affs wants to truncate the inode when the last user goes away, currently it
    does that through a potentially racy i_count check in ->put_inode. But we
    already have a method that's called just after the we dropped the last
    reference, ->drop_inode. This patch implements affs_drop_inode to take
    advantage of this.

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Cc: Roman Zippel
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Christoph Hellwig
     

13 Feb, 2007

1 commit

  • Many struct inode_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const
    moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
    dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
    these shared resources.

    Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Arjan van de Ven
     

10 Jan, 2006

1 commit


10 Sep, 2005

1 commit

  • 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

    Mark Fasheh
     

17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • 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!

    Linus Torvalds