20 Jul, 2007

19 commits


16 Jul, 2007

1 commit


10 Jul, 2007

1 commit


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
     

17 May, 2007

1 commit

  • SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR is always specified. No point in checking it.

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
    Cc: David Howells
    Cc: Jens Axboe
    Cc: Steven French
    Cc: Michael Halcrow
    Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi
    Cc: Miklos Szeredi
    Cc: Steven Whitehouse
    Cc: Roman Zippel
    Cc: David Woodhouse
    Cc: Dave Kleikamp
    Cc: Trond Myklebust
    Cc: "J. Bruce Fields"
    Cc: Anton Altaparmakov
    Cc: Mark Fasheh
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig
    Cc: Jan Kara
    Cc: David Chinner
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Christoph Lameter
     

08 May, 2007

1 commit

  • 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

    Christoph Lameter
     

15 Feb, 2007

2 commits

  • The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
    sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name. Which is
    pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented.

    I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of
    register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register
    duplicate sysctl entries.

    So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in
    the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future
    enhancments harder.

    Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
    Acked-by: Ralf Baechle
    Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: Russell King
    Cc: David Howells
    Cc: "Luck, Tony"
    Cc: Ralf Baechle
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: Andi Kleen
    Cc: Jens Axboe
    Cc: Corey Minyard
    Cc: Neil Brown
    Cc: "John W. Linville"
    Cc: James Bottomley
    Cc: Jan Kara
    Cc: Trond Myklebust
    Cc: Mark Fasheh
    Cc: David Chinner
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Cc: Patrick McHardy
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Eric W. Biederman
     
  • Will converting the coda sysctl initializers I discovered that it is yet
    another user of sysctl that was stomping CTL_KERN. So off with it's
    sys_sysctl support since it wasn't done in a supportable way.

    Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
    Cc: Jan Harkes
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Eric W. Biederman
     

13 Feb, 2007

2 commits

  • 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

    Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
     
  • 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
     

12 Feb, 2007

1 commit


09 Dec, 2006

1 commit


08 Dec, 2006

2 commits

  • 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
    done

    The script was run like this

    sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Christoph Lameter
     
  • SLAB_KERNEL is an alias of GFP_KERNEL.

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Christoph Lameter
     

01 Oct, 2006

2 commits

  • This is mostly included for parity with dec_nlink(), where we will have some
    more hooks. This one should stay pretty darn straightforward for now.

    Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
    Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Cc: Al Viro
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Dave Hansen
     
  • When a filesystem decrements i_nlink to zero, it means that a write must be
    performed in order to drop the inode from the filesystem.

    We're shortly going to have keep filesystems from being remounted r/o between
    the time that this i_nlink decrement and that write occurs.

    So, add a little helper function to do the decrements. We'll tie into it in a
    bit to note when i_nlink hits zero.

    Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
    Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Cc: Al Viro
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Dave Hansen
     

27 Sep, 2006

3 commits

  • This eliminates the i_blksize field from struct inode. Filesystems that want
    to provide a per-inode st_blksize can do so by providing their own getattr
    routine instead of using the generic_fillattr() function.

    Note that some filesystems were providing pretty much random (and incorrect)
    values for i_blksize.

    [bunk@stusta.de: cleanup]
    [akpm@osdl.org: generic_fillattr() fix]
    Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"
    Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Theodore Ts'o
     
  • * Rougly half of callers already do it by not checking return value
    * Code in drivers/acpi/osl.c does the following to be sure:

    (void)kmem_cache_destroy(cache);

    * Those who check it printk something, however, slab_error already printed
    the name of failed cache.
    * XFS BUGs on failed kmem_cache_destroy which is not the decision
    low-level filesystem driver should make. Converted to ignore.

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

    Alexey Dobriyan
     
  • * Removing useless casts
    * Removing useless wrapper
    * Conversion from kmalloc+memset to kzalloc

    Signed-off-by: Panagiotis Issaris
    Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Panagiotis Issaris
     

01 Aug, 2006

1 commit


01 Jul, 2006

1 commit


30 Jun, 2006

1 commit

  • * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6: (22 commits)
    [PATCH] devfs: Remove it from the feature_removal.txt file
    [PATCH] devfs: Last little devfs cleanups throughout the kernel tree.
    [PATCH] devfs: Rename TTY_DRIVER_NO_DEVFS to TTY_DRIVER_DYNAMIC_DEV
    [PATCH] devfs: Remove the tty_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
    [PATCH] devfs: Remove the line_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
    [PATCH] devfs: Remove the videodevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
    [PATCH] devfs: Remove the gendisk devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
    [PATCH] devfs: Remove the miscdevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
    [PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the tree
    [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_remove() function from the kernel tree
    [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_cdev() function from the kernel tree
    [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_bdev() function from the kernel tree
    [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_symlink() function from the kernel tree
    [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_dir() function from the kernel tree
    [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_*_tape() functions from the kernel tree
    [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the sound subsystem
    [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the ide subsystem.
    [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the serial subsystem
    [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the init code
    [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the partition code
    ...

    Linus Torvalds