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Borislav Petkov
ed48554fad ide-atapi: combine drive-specific assignments
There should be no functionality change resulting from this patch.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-01-02 16:12:52 +01:00
Borislav Petkov
991cb26a6a ide-atapi: add a dev_is_idecd-inline
There should be no functionality change resulting from this patch.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-01-02 16:12:52 +01:00
FUJITA Tomonori
93c164af19 remove ide-scsi
As planed, this removes ide-scsi.

The 2.6 kernel supports direct writing to ide CD drives, which
eliminates the need for ide-scsi. ide-scsi has been unmaintained and
marked as deprecated.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-01-02 16:12:51 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
07bd3f4731 ide-floppy: allocate only toplevel packet commands
This makes the top-level function just allocate a single pc entry, and then
pass it down as a pointer to all the helper functions that also need one
of those "struct ide_atapi_pc" things. As far as I can tell, the use of
these things never overlaps each other, BUT I DID NOT CHECK VERY CLOSELY!

So I'm not guaranteeing this is correct, and I don't have the hardware. It
would be good for somebody who knows the code more, and has the hardware,
could please test this?

With this, ide-floppy still has fairly big stack usage, but instead of

	idefloppy_ioctl [vmlinux]:              1208
	ide_floppy_get_capacity [vmlinux]:      872
	idefloppy_release [vmlinux]:            408
	idefloppy_open [vmlinux]:               408

where those two first ones are at the very top of the list of stack users
for me, it's now

	ide_floppy_get_capacity [vmlinux]:           404
	ide_floppy_ioctl [vmlinux]:                  364

ie they are still high, but they are no longer at the top.

Borislav: Since ide_floppy_get_capacity is passed as a function pointer to other
parts of the kernel (e.g., block layer) we need that ide_atapi_pc to be created
on stack. Also, redid stack users numbers above. The two functions missing from
Linus' original 'make stackusage' output are due to ide being
rewritten/reorganized atm.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-01-02 16:12:51 +01:00
Borislav Petkov
bf64741fe8 ide: make IDE_AFLAG_.. numbering continuous again
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-01-02 16:12:50 +01:00
Borislav Petkov
0f38aaa498 ide-cd: move debug defines into header
While at it:
- disable compiling-in debug support by default

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
[bart: fixup patch description]
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-01-02 16:12:50 +01:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
201bffa464 ide: use per-device request queue locks (v2)
* Move hack for flush requests from choose_drive() to do_ide_request().

* Add ide_plug_device() helper and convert core IDE code from using
  per-hwgroup lock as a request lock to use the ->queue_lock instead.

* Remove no longer needed:
  - choose_drive() function
  - WAKEUP() macro
  - 'sleeping' flag from ide_hwif_t
  - 'service_{start,time}' fields from ide_drive_t

This patch results in much simpler and more maintainable code
(besides being a scalability improvement).

v2:
* Fixes/improvements based on review from Elias:
  - take as many requests off the queue as possible
  - remove now redundant BUG_ON()

Cc: Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-01-02 16:12:50 +01:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
631de3708d ide: add ide_[un]lock_hwgroup() helpers
Add ide_[un]lock_hwgroup() inline helpers for obtaining exclusive
access to the given hwgroup and update the core code accordingly.

[ This change besides making code saner results in more efficient
  use of ide_{get,release}_lock(). ]

Cc: Michael Schmitz <schmitz@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-01-02 16:12:50 +01:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
b2cfb05a70 ide: remove "paranoia" checks for hwgroup->busy
Remove "paranoia" checks for hwgroup->busy from ide_timer_expiry()
and ide_intr().  This is a preparation for future changes.

Cc: Michael Schmitz <schmitz@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-01-02 16:12:49 +01:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2fb211502e ide: remove IDE PM hack from do_ide_request()
We now tell block layer that there is still work to do using
blk_plug_device() so hack for IDE Power Management can be removed
(it was buggy for hwgroups having more than 4 devices anyway).

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-01-02 16:12:49 +01:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
295f00042a ide: don't execute the next queued command from the hard-IRQ context (v2)
* Tell the block layer that we are not done handling requests by using
  blk_plug_device() in ide_do_request() (request handling function)
  and ide_timer_expiry() (timeout handler) if the queue is not empty.

* Remove optimization which directly calls ide_do_request() for the next
  queued command from the ide_intr() (IRQ handler) and ide_timer_expiry().

* Remove no longer needed IRQ masking from ide_do_request() - in case of
  IDE ports needing serialization disable_irq_nosync()/enable_irq() was
  used for the (possibly shared) IRQ of the other IDE port.

* Put the misplaced comment in the right place in ide_do_request().

* Drop no longer needed 'int masked_irq' argument from ide_do_request().

* Merge ide_do_request() into do_ide_request().

* Remove no longer needed IDE_NO_IRQ define.

While at it:

* Don't use HWGROUP() macro in do_ide_request().

* Use __func__ in ide_intr().

This patch reduces IRQ hadling latency for IDE and improves the system-wide
handling of shared IRQs (which should result in more timeout resistant and
stable IDE systems).  It also makes it possible to do some further changes
later (i.e. replace some busy-waiting delays with sleeping equivalents).

v2:
Changes per review from Elias Oltmanns:
- fix wrong goto statement in 'if (startstop == ide_stopped)' block
- use spin_unlock_irq()
- don't use obsolete HWIF() macro

Cc: Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-01-02 16:12:48 +01:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
ebdab07dad ide: move sysfs support to ide-sysfs.c
While at it:
- media_string() -> ide_media_string()

There should be no functional changes caused by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-01-02 16:12:48 +01:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
24630dc68a ide: factor out device type classifying from do_identify()
Factor out device type classifying from do_identify()
to ide_classify_ata_dev() and ide_classify_atapi_dev().

There should be no functional changes caused by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-01-02 16:12:47 +01:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
96d4094123 ide: small ide_register_port() cleanup
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-01-02 16:12:47 +01:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
b1d249e845 ide: remove chipset type fixup from ide_host_register()
* Set chipset type explicitly in tx4938ide and tx4939ide host drivers
  (all other host drivers were updated already).

* Remove no longer used chipset type fixup from ide_host_register().

Acked-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-01-02 16:12:47 +01:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
3ee86dcdd2 tx493x: fix indentation
Trivial CodingStyle fixup for tx4938ide and tx4939ide drivers.

Acked-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Sergei Shtyltov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-01-02 16:12:46 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
b58602a4ba Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (34 commits)
  nfsd race fixes: jfs
  nfsd race fixes: reiserfs
  nfsd race fixes: ext4
  nfsd race fixes: ext3
  nfsd race fixes: ext2
  nfsd/create race fixes, infrastructure
  filesystem notification: create fs/notify to contain all fs notification
  fs/block_dev.c: __read_mostly improvement and sb_is_blkdev_sb utilization
  kill ->dir_notify()
  filp_cachep can be static in fs/file_table.c
  fix f_count description in Documentation/filesystems/files.txt
  make INIT_FS use the __RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED initialization
  take init_fs to saner place
  kill vfs_permission
  pass a struct path * to may_open
  kill walk_init_root
  remove incorrect comment in inode_permission
  expand some comments (d_path / seq_path)
  correct wrong function name of d_put in kernel document and source comment
  fix switch_names() breakage in short-to-short case
  ...
2008-12-31 15:57:56 -08:00
Dave Kleikamp
1f3403fa64 nfsd race fixes: jfs
jfs version of Al Viro's nfsd race patches

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:44 -05:00
Al Viro
c1eaa26b67 nfsd race fixes: reiserfs
... and the same for reiserfs.  The difference here is that we need
insert_inode_locked4() to match iget5_locked().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:44 -05:00
Al Viro
6b38e842bb nfsd race fixes: ext4
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:44 -05:00
Al Viro
c38012daa7 nfsd race fixes: ext3
ext3 analog of the previous patch

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:44 -05:00
Al Viro
41080b5a24 nfsd race fixes: ext2
* make ext2_new_inode() put the inode into icache in locked state
* do not unlock until the inode is fully set up; otherwise nfsd
might pick it in half-baked state.
* make sure that ext2_new_inode() does *not* lead to two inodes with the
same inumber hashed at the same time; otherwise a bogus fhandle coming
from nfsd might race with inode creation:

nfsd: iget_locked() creates inode
nfsd: try to read from disk, block on that.
ext2_new_inode(): allocate inode with that inumber
ext2_new_inode(): insert it into icache, set it up and dirty
ext2_write_inode(): get the relevant part of inode table in cache,
set the entry for our inode (and start writing to disk)
nfsd: get CPU again, look into inode table, see nice and sane on-disk
inode, set the in-core inode from it

oops - we have two in-core inodes with the same inumber live in icache,
both used for IO.  Welcome to fs corruption...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:43 -05:00
Al Viro
261bca86ed nfsd/create race fixes, infrastructure
new helpers - insert_inode_locked() and insert_inode_locked4().
Hash new inode, making sure that there's no such inode in icache
already.  If there is and it does not end up unhashed (as would
happen if we have nfsd trying to resolve a bogus fhandle), fail.
Otherwise insert our inode into hash and succeed.

In either case have i_state set to new+locked; cleanup ends up
being simpler with such calling conventions.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:43 -05:00
Eric Paris
272eb01485 filesystem notification: create fs/notify to contain all fs notification
Creating a generic filesystem notification interface, fsnotify, which will be
used by inotify, dnotify, and eventually fanotify is really starting to
clutter the fs directory.  This patch simply moves inotify and dnotify into
fs/notify/inotify and fs/notify/dnotify respectively to make both current fs/
and future notification tidier.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:43 -05:00
Denis ChengRq
c2acf7b908 fs/block_dev.c: __read_mostly improvement and sb_is_blkdev_sb utilization
- iget5_locked in bdget really needs blockdev_superblock, instead of
  bd_mnt, so bd_mnt could be just a local variable;

- blockdev_superblock really needs __read_mostly, while local var bd_mnt
  not;

- make use of sb_is_blkdev_sb in bd_forget, instead of direct reference
  to blockdev_superblock.

Signed-off-by: Denis ChengRq <crquan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:43 -05:00
Al Viro
6badd79bd0 kill ->dir_notify()
Remove the hopelessly misguided ->dir_notify().  The only instance (cifs)
has been broken by design from the very beginning; the objects it creates
are never destroyed, keep references to struct file they can outlive, nothing
that could possibly evict them exists on close(2) path *and* no locking
whatsoever is done to prevent races with close(), should the previous, er,
deficiencies someday be dealt with.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:43 -05:00
Eric Dumazet
b6b3fdead2 filp_cachep can be static in fs/file_table.c
Instead of creating the "filp" kmem_cache in vfs_caches_init(),
we can do it a litle be later in files_init(), so that filp_cachep
is static to fs/file_table.c

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:42 -05:00
Eric Dumazet
fd659fd627 fix f_count description in Documentation/filesystems/files.txt
Documentation/filesystems/files.txt was not updated when
f_count became an atomic_long_t.
atomic_long_inc_not_zero() is now used instead of atomic_inc_not_zero()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:42 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
1239f26c05 make INIT_FS use the __RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED initialization
[AV: rediffed on top of unification of init_fs]
Initialization of init_fs still uses the deprecated RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED macro.
This patch updates it to use the __RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED(lock) macro.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:42 -05:00
Al Viro
18d8fda7c3 take init_fs to saner place
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:42 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
cb23beb551 kill vfs_permission
With all the nameidata removal there's no point anymore for this helper.
Of the three callers left two will go away with the next lookup series
anyway.

Also add proper kerneldoc to inode_permission as this is the main
permission check routine now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:41 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
3fb64190aa pass a struct path * to may_open
No need for the nameidata in may_open - a struct path is enough.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:41 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
b4091d5f6f kill walk_init_root
walk_init_root is a tiny helper that is marked __always_inline, has just
one caller and an unused argument.  Just merge it into the caller.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:41 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
66f221875d remove incorrect comment in inode_permission
We now pass on all MAY_ flags to the filesystems permission routines,
so remove the comment stating the contrary.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:41 -05:00
Arjan van de Ven
52afeefb9d expand some comments (d_path / seq_path)
Explain that you really need to use the return value of d_path rather than
the buffer you passed into it.

Also fix the comment for seq_path(), the function arguments changed
recently but the comment hadn't been updated in sync.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:41 -05:00
Zhaolei
be42c4c433 correct wrong function name of d_put in kernel document and source comment
no function named d_put(), it should be dput().

Impact: fix document and comment, no functionality changed

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fuijtsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:40 -05:00
Al Viro
dc711ca35f fix switch_names() breakage in short-to-short case
We want ->name.len to match the resulting name on *both*
source and target

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:40 -05:00
Duane Griffin
7df5fa06de befs: ensure fast symlinks are NUL-terminated
Ensure fast symlink targets are NUL-terminated, even if corrupted
on-disk.

Cc: Sergey S. Kostyliov <rathamahata@php4.ru>
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:40 -05:00
Duane Griffin
a63d0ff31a freevxfs: ensure fast symlinks are NUL-terminated
Ensure fast symlink targets are NUL-terminated, even if corrupted
on-disk.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:40 -05:00
Duane Griffin
21acaf8e8d sysv: ensure fast symlinks are NUL-terminated
Ensure fast symlink targets are NUL-terminated, even if corrupted
on-disk.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:39 -05:00
Duane Griffin
e83c1397ca ext4: ensure fast symlinks are NUL-terminated
Ensure fast symlink targets are NUL-terminated, even if corrupted
on-disk.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: adilger@sun.com
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:39 -05:00
Duane Griffin
b5ed3112b5 ext3: ensure fast symlinks are NUL-terminated
Ensure fast symlink targets are NUL-terminated, even if corrupted
on-disk.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:39 -05:00
Duane Griffin
8d6d0c4da2 ext2: ensure fast symlinks are NUL-terminated
Ensure fast symlink targets are NUL-terminated, even if corrupted
on-disk.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:39 -05:00
Duane Griffin
ebd09abbd9 vfs: ensure page symlinks are NUL-terminated
On-disk data corruption could cause a page link to have its i_size set
to PAGE_SIZE (or a multiple thereof) and its contents all non-NUL.
NUL-terminate the link name to ensure this doesn't cause further
problems for the kernel.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:39 -05:00
Duane Griffin
035146851c vfs: introduce helper function to safely NUL-terminate symlinks
A number of filesystems were potentially triggering kernel bugs due to
corrupted symlink names on disk. This function helps safely terminate
the names.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:38 -05:00
Duane Griffin
a17d5232de eCryptfs: check readlink result was not an error before using it
The result from readlink is being used to index into the link name
buffer without checking whether it is a valid length. If readlink
returns an error this will fault or cause memory corruption.

Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
Cc: ecryptfs-devel@lists.launchpad.net
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Acked-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:38 -05:00
Julia Lawall
5cc4a0341a fs/namespace.c: drop code after return
The extra semicolon serves no purpose.

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Reviewed-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:38 -05:00
Jan Engelhardt
dded4f4d50 include: linux/fs.h: put declarations in __KERNEL__
include/linux/fs.h contains externs for a bunch of variables.  That obviously
belongs under ifdef __KERNEL__.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:38 -05:00
Nick Piggin
c2452f3278 shrink struct dentry
struct dentry is one of the most critical structures in the kernel. So it's
sad to see it going neglected.

With CONFIG_PROFILING turned on (which is probably the common case at least
for distros and kernel developers), sizeof(struct dcache) == 208 here
(64-bit). This gives 19 objects per slab.

I packed d_mounted into a hole, and took another 4 bytes off the inline
name length to take the padding out from the end of the structure. This
shinks it to 200 bytes. I could have gone the other way and increased the
length to 40, but I'm aiming for a magic number, read on...

I then got rid of the d_cookie pointer. This shrinks it to 192 bytes. Rant:
why was this ever a good idea? The cookie system should increase its hash
size or use a tree or something if lookups are a problem. Also the "fast
dcookie lookups" in oprofile should be moved into the dcookie code -- how
can oprofile possibly care about the dcookie_mutex? It gets dropped after
get_dcookie() returns so it can't be providing any sort of protection.

At 192 bytes, 21 objects fit into a 4K page, saving about 3MB on my system
with ~140 000 entries allocated. 192 is also a multiple of 64, so we get
nice cacheline alignment on 64 and 32 byte line systems -- any given dentry
will now require 3 cachelines to touch all fields wheras previously it
would require 4.

I know the inline name size was chosen quite carefully, however with the
reduction in cacheline footprint, it should actually be just about as fast
to do a name lookup for a 36 character name as it was before the patch (and
faster for other sizes). The memory footprint savings for names which are
<= 32 or > 36 bytes long should more than make up for the memory cost for
33-36 byte names.

Performance is a feature...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:38 -05:00
Richard Kennedy
e2b689d82c fs: reorder struct inotify_device on 64bits to remove padding
Reorder struct inotify_device to remove 8 bytes of padding on 64bit
builds, reducing size to 128 bytes . Therefore allocating from a smaller
slab & using one fewer cachelines.

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>

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Hi,
patch against 2.6.28-rc7.
built & tested on AMDX2 desktop.

I've not been able to send this to the listed inotify maintainers, I
just get mail failures. So I guessed filesystem was the best home for
it, hope that's ok.

regards
Richard
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31 18:07:37 -05:00