05 Apr, 2016

1 commit

  • PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time
    ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page
    cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.

    This promise never materialized. And unlikely will.

    We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to
    PAGE_SIZE. And it's constant source of confusion on whether
    PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case,
    especially on the border between fs and mm.

    Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much
    breakage to be doable.

    Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special. They are
    not.

    The changes are pretty straight-forward:

    - << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> ;

    - >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> ;

    - PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -> PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN};

    - page_cache_get() -> get_page();

    - page_cache_release() -> put_page();

    This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using
    script below. For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files.
    I've called spatch for them manually.

    The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to
    PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later.

    There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach. I'll
    fix them manually in a separate patch. Comments and documentation also
    will be addressed with the separate patch.

    virtual patch

    @@
    expression E;
    @@
    - E << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
    + E

    @@
    expression E;
    @@
    - E >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
    + E

    @@
    @@
    - PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
    + PAGE_SHIFT

    @@
    @@
    - PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
    + PAGE_SIZE

    @@
    @@
    - PAGE_CACHE_MASK
    + PAGE_MASK

    @@
    expression E;
    @@
    - PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E)
    + PAGE_ALIGN(E)

    @@
    expression E;
    @@
    - page_cache_get(E)
    + get_page(E)

    @@
    expression E;
    @@
    - page_cache_release(E)
    + put_page(E)

    Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
    Acked-by: Michal Hocko
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Kirill A. Shutemov
     

20 Nov, 2013

2 commits

  • Further generalise the decompressors by adding a page handler
    abstraction. This adds helpers to allow the decompressors
    to access and process the output buffers in an implementation
    independant manner.

    This allows different types of output buffer to be passed
    to the decompressors, with the implementation specific
    aspects handled at decompression time, but without the
    knowledge being held in the decompressor wrapper code.

    This will allow the decompressors to handle Squashfs
    cache buffers, and page cache pages.

    This patch adds the abstraction and an implementation for
    the caches.

    Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher
    Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim

    Phillip Lougher
     
  • The decompressor interface and code was written from
    the point of view of single-threaded operation. In doing
    so it mixed a lot of single-threaded implementation specific
    aspects into the decompressor code and elsewhere which makes it
    difficult to seamlessly support multiple different decompressor
    implementations.

    This patch does the following:

    1. It removes compressor_options parsing from the decompressor
    init() function. This allows the decompressor init() function
    to be dynamically called to instantiate multiple decompressors,
    without the compressor options needing to be read and parsed each
    time.

    2. It moves threading and all sleeping operations out of the
    decompressors. In doing so, it makes the decompressors
    non-blocking wrappers which only deal with interfacing with
    the decompressor implementation.

    3. It splits decompressor.[ch] into decompressor generic functions
    in decompressor.[ch], and moves the single threaded
    decompressor implementation into decompressor_single.c.

    The result of this patch is Squashfs should now be able to
    support multiple decompressors by adding new decompressor_xxx.c
    files with specialised implementations of the functions in
    decompressor_single.c

    Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher
    Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim

    Phillip Lougher
     

01 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • Extend decompressor framework to handle compression options stored in
    the filesystem. These options can be used by the relevant decompressor
    at initialisation time to over-ride defaults.

    The presence of compression options in the filesystem is indicated by
    the COMP_OPT filesystem flag. If present the data is read from the
    filesystem and passed to the decompressor init function. The decompressor
    init function signature has been extended to take this data.

    Also update the init function signature in the glib, lzo and xz
    decompressor wrappers.

    Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher

    Phillip Lougher
     

14 Jan, 2011

1 commit


05 Aug, 2010

2 commits