linux-toradex.git/fs/mbcache.c, branch v2.6.38.5

ext2: Resolve 'dereferencing pointer to incomplete type' when enabling EXT2_XATTR_DEBUG

2011-01-10T18:04:08+00:00

When I enable EXT2_XATTR_DEBUG in fs/ext2/xattr.c I get a build error stating
the following:

  CC      fs/ext2/xattr.o
fs/ext2/xattr.c: In function 'ext2_xattr_cache_insert':
fs/ext2/xattr.c:841: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
fs/ext2/xattr.c:846: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
make[2]: *** [fs/ext2/xattr.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [fs/ext2] Error 2
make: *** [fs] Error 2

These lines reference ext2_xattr_cache->c_entry_count which is defined
in struct mb_cache. struct mb_cache is currently only defined in fs/mbcache.c.
Moving struct mb_cache definition to include/linux/mbcache.h to resolve the
issue.

Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

mbcache: Limit the maximum number of cache entries

2010-08-18T10:24:41+00:00

Limit the maximum number of mb_cache entries depending on the number of
hash buckets: if the only limit to the number of cache entries is the
available memory the hash chains can grow very long, taking a long time
to search.

At least partially solves https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22771.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

mbcache: fix shrinker function return value

2010-08-09T20:48:47+00:00

The shrinker function is supposed to return the number of cache
entries after shrinking, not before shrinking.  Fix that.

Based on a patch from Wang Sheng-Hui .

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

mbcache: Remove unused features

2010-08-09T20:48:45+00:00

The mbcache code was written to support a variable number of indexes,
but all the existing users use exactly one index.  Simplify to code to
support only that case.

There are also no users of the cache entry free operation, and none of
the users keep extra data in cache entries.  Remove those features as
well.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

mm: add context argument to shrinker callback

2010-07-19T04:56:17+00:00

The current shrinker implementation requires the registered callback
to have global state to work from. This makes it difficult to shrink
caches that are not global (e.g. per-filesystem caches). Pass the shrinker
structure to the callback so that users can embed the shrinker structure
in the context the shrinker needs to operate on and get back to it in the
callback via container_of().

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig

vfs: fix possible deadlock in ext2, ext3, ext4 when using xattrs

2008-04-16T02:35:41+00:00

mb_cache_entry_alloc() was allocating cache entries with GFP_KERNEL.  But
filesystems are calling this function while holding xattr_sem so possible
recursion into the fs violates locking ordering of xattr_sem and transaction
start / i_mutex for ext2-4.  Change mb_cache_entry_alloc() so that filesystems
can specify desired gfp mask and use GFP_NOFS from all of them.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Reported-by: Dave Jones 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs: Fix to correct the mbcache entries counter

2007-10-25T22:18:29+00:00

This patch fixes the c_entry_count counter of the mbcache. Currently
it increments the counter first & allocate the cache entry later. In
case of failure to allocate the entry due to insufficient memory this
counter is still left incremented. This patch fixes this anomaly.

Signed-off-by: Ram Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().

2007-07-20T01:11:58+00:00

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

mm: clean up and kernelify shrinker registration

2007-07-17T17:23:00+00:00

I can never remember what the function to register to receive VM pressure
is called.  I have to trace down from __alloc_pages() to find it.

It's called "set_shrinker()", and it needs Your Help.

1) Don't hide struct shrinker.  It contains no magic.
2) Don't allocate "struct shrinker".  It's not helpful.
3) Call them "register_shrinker" and "unregister_shrinker".
4) Call the function "shrink" not "shrinker".
5) Reduce the 17 lines of waffly comments to 13, but document it properly.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell 
Cc: David Chinner 
Cc: Trond Myklebust 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t

2006-12-07T16:39:25+00:00

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