11 Jan, 2012
1 commit
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MTD pull for 3.3
* tag 'for-linus-3.3' of git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (113 commits)
mtd: Fix dependency for MTD_DOC200x
mtd: do not use mtd->block_markbad directly
logfs: do not use 'mtd->block_isbad' directly
mtd: introduce mtd_can_have_bb helper
mtd: do not use mtd->suspend and mtd->resume directly
mtd: do not use mtd->lock, unlock and is_locked directly
mtd: do not use mtd->sync directly
mtd: harmonize mtd_writev usage
mtd: do not use mtd->lock_user_prot_reg directly
mtd: mtd->write_user_prot_reg directly
mtd: do not use mtd->read_*_prot_reg directly
mtd: do not use mtd->get_*_prot_info directly
mtd: do not use mtd->read_oob directly
mtd: mtdoops: do not use mtd->panic_write directly
romfs: do not use mtd->get_unmapped_area directly
mtd: do not use mtd->get_unmapped_area directly
mtd: do use mtd->point directly
mtd: introduce mtd_has_oob helper
mtd: mtdcore: export symbols cleanup
mtd: clean-up the default_mtd_writev function
...Fix up trivial edit/remove conflict in drivers/staging/spectra/lld_mtd.c
10 Jan, 2012
2 commits
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Remove direct usage of mtd->get_unmapped_area. Instead, just call
'mtd_get_unmapped_area()' which will return -EOPNOTSUPP if the function
is not implemented, and then test for this code.We also translate -EOPNOTSUPP to -ENOSYS because this return code is
probably part of the kernel ABI which we do not want to break.Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse -
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse
04 Jan, 2012
1 commit
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Seeing that just about every destructor got that INIT_LIST_HEAD() copied into
it, there is no point whatsoever keeping this INIT_LIST_HEAD in inode_init_once();
the cost of taking it into inode_init_always() will be negligible for pipes
and sockets and negative for everything else. Not to mention the removal of
boilerplate code from ->destroy_inode() instances...Signed-off-by: Al Viro
02 Nov, 2011
1 commit
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Replace remaining direct i_nlink updates with a new set_nlink()
updater function.Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi
Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
28 Jun, 2011
1 commit
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romfs_get_unmapped_area() checks argument `len' without considering
PAGE_ALIGN which will cause do_mmap_pgoff() return -EINVAL error after
commit f67d9b1576c ("nommu: add page_align to mmap").Fix the check by changing it in same way ramfs_nommu_get_unmapped_area()
was changed in ramfs/file-nommu.c.Signed-off-by: Bob Liu
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Paul Mundt
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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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
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
15 Oct, 2010
1 commit
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All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make
nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a
.llseek pointer.The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek
and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that
the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains
the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek.New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek
and call nonseekable_open at open time. Existing drivers can be converted
to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code
relies on calling seek on the device file.The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains
comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was
chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will
be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not
seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle.Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get
the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window.Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic
patch that does all this.===== begin semantic patch =====
// This adds an llseek= method to all file operations,
// as a preparation for making no_llseek the default.
//
// The rules are
// - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open
// - use seq_lseek for sequential files
// - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos
// - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos,
// but we still want to allow users to call lseek
//
@ open1 exists @
identifier nested_open;
@@
nested_open(...)
{}
@ open exists@
identifier open_f;
identifier i, f;
identifier open1.nested_open;
@@
int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
{}
@ read disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{}
@ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}@ write @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{}
@ write_no_fpos @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}@ fops0 @
identifier fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
};@ has_llseek depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier llseek_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.llseek = llseek_f,
...
};@ has_read depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.read = read_f,
...
};@ has_write depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.write = write_f,
...
};@ has_open depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.open = open_f,
...
};// use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open
////////////////////////////////////////////
@ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek && has_open @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .open = nso, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */
};@ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open.open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .open = open_f, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */
};// use seq_lseek for sequential files
/////////////////////////////////////
@ seq depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier sr ~= "seq_read";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = sr, ...
+.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */
};// use default_llseek if there is a readdir
///////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops1 depends on !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier readdir_e;
@@
// any other fop is used that changes pos
struct file_operations fops = {
... .readdir = readdir_e, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */
};// use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops2 depends on !fops1 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read.read_f;
@@
// read fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */
};@ fops3 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+ .llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */
};// Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////@ fops4 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !fops3 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.write = write_f,
.read = read_f,
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */
};@ depends on has_write && !has_read && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */
};@ depends on has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */
};@ depends on !has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */
};
===== End semantic patch =====Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Julia Lawall
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
27 Jan, 2010
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
12 Oct, 2009
1 commit
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An interestingly corrupted romfs file system exposed a problem with the
romfs_dev_strnlen function: it's passing the wrong value to its helpers.
Rather than limit the string to the length passed in by the callers, it
uses the size of the device as the limit.Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
24 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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romfs_iget returns an ERR_PTR value in an error case instead of NULL.
A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)//
@match exists@
expression x, E;
statement S1, S2;
@@x = romfs_iget(...)
... when != x = E
(
* if (x == NULL || ...) S1 else S2
|
* if (x == NULL && ...) S1 else S2
)
//Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
22 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 May, 2009
1 commit
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romfs_dev_read() may return -EIO, but ret is unsigned, so the errorpath
isn't taken.Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
25 Apr, 2009
2 commits
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RomFS should advance the destination buffer pointer when reading data from a
blockdev source (the data may be split over multiple blocks, each requiring its
own sb_read() call). Without this, all the data is copied to the beginning of
the output buffer.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Tested-by: Michal Simek
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
romfs_lookup() should be using a routine akin to strcmp() on the backing store,
rather than one akin to strncmp(). If it uses the latter, it's liable to match
/bin/shutdown when looking up /bin/sh.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Tested-by: Michal Simek
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Apr, 2009
1 commit
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Make romfs return f_fsid info for statfs(2).
Signed-off-by: Coly Li
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
24 Mar, 2009
2 commits
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Fix the configuration of the RomFS to make sure that at least one
backing store method is always selected. This is done by rendering it
down to a choice item that selects between Block, MTD and both.This also works correctly in the case that CONFIG_MTD=m: MTD cannot be
selected as a backing store unless CONFIG_ROMFS_FS is also 'm'.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse -
Change RomFS so that it can use MTD devices directly - without the intercession
of the block layer - as well as using block devices.This permits RomFS:
(1) to use the MTD direct mapping facility available under NOMMU conditions if
the underlying device is directly accessible by the CPU (including XIP);(2) and thus to be used when the block layer is disabled.
RomFS can be configured with support just for MTD devices, just for Block
devices or for both. If RomFS is configured for both, then it will treat
mtdblock device files as MTD backing stores, not block layer backing stores.I tested this using a CONFIG_MMU=n CONFIG_BLOCK=n kernel running on my FRV
board with a RomFS image installed on the mtdram test device. I see my test
program being run XIP:# cat /proc/maps
...
c0c000b0-c0c01f8c r-xs 00000000 1f:00 144 /mnt/doshm
...GDB on the kernel can be used to show that these addresses are within the
set-aside RAM space.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Tested-by: Bernd Schmidt
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse
22 Jan, 2009
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
09 Jan, 2009
1 commit
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romfs_strnlen() returns int
unsigned X >= 0 is always true[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: roel kluin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
06 Jan, 2009
1 commit
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... and don't bother in callers. Don't bother with zeroing i_blocks,
while we are at it - it's already been zeroed.i_mode is not worth the effort; it has no common default value.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
31 Jul, 2008
1 commit
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We zero-fill them like we are supposed to, and that's all fine. It's
only an error if the 'romfs_copyfrom()' routine isn't able to fill the
data that is supposed to be there.Most of the patch is really just re-organizing the code a bit, and using
separate variables for the error value and for how much of the page we
actually filled from the filesystem.Reported-and-tested-by: Chris Fester
Cc: Alexander Viro
Cc: Matt Waddel
Cc: Greg Ungerer
Signed-of-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Jul, 2008
1 commit
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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
20 Mar, 2008
1 commit
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Fix up an error in iget removal in which romfs_lookup() making a successful
call to romfs_iget() continues through the negative/error handling (previously
the successful case jumped around the negative/error handling case):(1) inode is initialised to NULL at the top of the function, eliminating the
need for specific negative-inode handling. This means the positive
success handling now flows straight through.(2) Rename the labels to be clearer about what they mean.
Also make romfs_lookup()'s result variable of type long so as to avoid
32-bit/64-bit conversions with PTR_ERR() and friends.Based upon a report and patch from Adam Richter.
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: "Adam J. Richter"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Feb, 2008
1 commit
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Stop the ROMFS filesystem from using iget() and read_inode(). Replace
romfs_read_inode() with romfs_iget(), and call that instead of iget().
romfs_iget() then uses iget_locked() directly and returns a proper error code
instead of an inode in the event of an error.romfs_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
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Oct, 2007
2 commits
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- There are no lists in fs/romfs/inode.c, so using list_entry
is a bit confusing. Replace it with container_of.- It is unnecessary to cast the return value of
kmem_cache_alloc, since it returns a void* pointer.Signed-off-by: WANG Cong
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
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
20 Jul, 2007
1 commit
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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
17 May, 2007
1 commit
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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
08 May, 2007
1 commit
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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
13 Feb, 2007
2 commits
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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 -
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
09 Dec, 2006
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Dec, 2006
2 commits
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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
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
SLAB_KERNEL is an alias of GFP_KERNEL.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Sep, 2006
1 commit
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* 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
29 Jun, 2006
1 commit
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Same as with already do with the file operations: keep them in .rodata and
prevents people from doing runtime patching.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Steven French
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
23 Jun, 2006
2 commits
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Give the statfs superblock operation a dentry pointer rather than a superblock
pointer.This complements the get_sb() patch. That reduced the significance of
sb->s_root, allowing NFS to place a fake root there. However, NFS does
require a dentry to use as a target for the statfs operation. This permits
the root in the vfsmount to be used instead.linux/mount.h has been added where necessary to make allyesconfig build
successfully.Interest has also been expressed for use with the FUSE and XFS filesystems.
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Al Viro
Cc: Nathan Scott
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that
permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint.The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry
pointers. For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt()
which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the
superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour).The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the
superblock pointer.This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount
points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing. In
such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root
and mnt_sb would be set directly.The patch also makes the following changes:
(*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount
pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change
very little.(*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should
normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will
always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb().(*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the
dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon().This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that
aren't actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The
currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root,
and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in
dentries being left unculled.However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be
implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is
simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for '/' may well be
inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries
with child trees.[*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree.
(*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of
changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation.[akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff]
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Al Viro
Cc: Nathan Scott
Cc: Roland Dreier
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds