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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/efs/super.c, branch v3.2.55</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>fs: icache RCU free inodes</title>
<updated>2011-01-07T06:50:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@kernel.dk</email>
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<published>2011-01-07T06:49:49+00:00</published>
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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-&gt;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 &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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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-&gt;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 &lt;npiggin@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>new helper: mount_bdev()</title>
<updated>2010-10-29T08:16:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-24T20:46:55+00:00</published>
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... and switch of the obvious get_sb_bdev() users to -&gt;mount()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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... and switch of the obvious get_sb_bdev() users to -&gt;mount()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/efs: return f_fsid for statfs(2)</title>
<updated>2009-04-03T02:05:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Coly Li</name>
<email>coly.li@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-02T23:59:34+00:00</published>
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Make efs return f_fsid info for statfs(2), and do a little variable
renaming in efs_statfs().

Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;coly.li@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Make efs return f_fsid info for statfs(2), and do a little variable
renaming in efs_statfs().

Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;coly.li@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>EFS: Don't set f_fsid in statfs().</title>
<updated>2008-09-02T22:15:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Woodhouse</name>
<email>David.Woodhouse@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-09-02T22:15:22+00:00</published>
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We don't have any suitable value to put in f_fsid. Using EFS_MAGIC
really isn't a good idea, because all EFS file systems will have the
same f_fsid then.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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We don't have any suitable value to put in f_fsid. Using EFS_MAGIC
really isn't a good idea, because all EFS file systems will have the
same f_fsid then.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>SL*B: drop kmem cache argument from constructor</title>
<updated>2008-07-26T19:00:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-26T02:45:34+00:00</published>
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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.c

This is flag day, yes.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jon Tollefson &lt;kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au&gt;
Cc: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
[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 &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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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.c

This is flag day, yes.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jon Tollefson &lt;kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au&gt;
Cc: Matt Mackall &lt;mpm@selenic.com&gt;
[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 &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>efs: move headers out of include/linux/</title>
<updated>2008-02-24T01:12:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-23T23:23:51+00:00</published>
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Merge include/linux/efs_fs{_i,_dir}.h into fs/efs/efs.h.  efs_vh.h remains
there because this is the IRIX volume header and shouldn't really be
handled by efs but by the partitioning code.  efs_sb.h remains there for
now because it's exported to userspace.  Of course this wrong and aboot
should have a copy of it's own, but I'll leave that to a separate patch to
avoid any contention.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Merge include/linux/efs_fs{_i,_dir}.h into fs/efs/efs.h.  efs_vh.h remains
there because this is the IRIX volume header and shouldn't really be
handled by efs but by the partitioning code.  efs_sb.h remains there for
now because it's exported to userspace.  Of course this wrong and aboot
should have a copy of it's own, but I'll leave that to a separate patch to
avoid any contention.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>iget: stop EFS from using iget() and read_inode()</title>
<updated>2008-02-07T16:42:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-07T08:15:34+00:00</published>
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Stop the EFS filesystem from using iget() and read_inode().  Replace
efs_read_inode() with efs_iget(), and call that instead of iget().  efs_iget()
then uses iget_locked() directly and returns a proper error code instead of an
inode in the event of an error.

efs_fill_super() returns any error incurred when getting the root inode
instead of EACCES.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Stop the EFS filesystem from using iget() and read_inode().  Replace
efs_read_inode() with efs_iget(), and call that instead of iget().  efs_iget()
then uses iget_locked() directly and returns a proper error code instead of an
inode in the event of an error.

efs_fill_super() returns any error incurred when getting the root inode
instead of EACCES.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>exportfs: make struct export_operations const</title>
<updated>2007-10-22T15:13:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-21T23:42:17+00:00</published>
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Now that nfsd has stopped writing to the find_exported_dentry member we an
mark the export_operations const

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Kleikamp &lt;shaggy@austin.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov &lt;aia21@cantab.net&gt;
Cc: David Chinner &lt;dgc@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Timothy Shimmin &lt;tes@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi &lt;hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;mason@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Mahoney &lt;jeffm@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" &lt;vs@namesys.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Fasheh &lt;mark.fasheh@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Now that nfsd has stopped writing to the find_exported_dentry member we an
mark the export_operations const

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Kleikamp &lt;shaggy@austin.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov &lt;aia21@cantab.net&gt;
Cc: David Chinner &lt;dgc@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: Timothy Shimmin &lt;tes@sgi.com&gt;
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi &lt;hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Mason &lt;mason@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Mahoney &lt;jeffm@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" &lt;vs@namesys.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Fasheh &lt;mark.fasheh@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>efs: new export ops</title>
<updated>2007-10-22T15:13:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-21T23:42:09+00:00</published>
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Trivial switch over to the new generic helpers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Trivial switch over to the new generic helpers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Slab API: remove useless ctor parameter and reorder parameters</title>
<updated>2007-10-17T15:42:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Lameter</name>
<email>clameter@sgi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-17T06:25:51+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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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 &lt;clameter@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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