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<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;
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<entry>
<title>minix: remove !NO_TRUNCATE code</title>
<updated>2008-07-25T17:53:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Bunk</name>
<email>bunk@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-25T08:46:14+00:00</published>
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This patch removes the !NO_TRUNCATE code that anyway required a manual
editing of the code for being used.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.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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This patch removes the !NO_TRUNCATE code that anyway required a manual
editing of the code for being used.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.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>
<title>iget: stop the MINIX filesystem from using iget() and read_inode()</title>
<updated>2008-02-07T16:42:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-07T08:15:44+00:00</published>
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Stop the MINIX filesystem from using iget() and read_inode().  Replace
minix_read_inode() with minix_iget(), and call that instead of iget().
minix_iget() then uses iget_locked() directly and returns a proper error code
instead of an inode in the event of an error.

minix_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 &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 MINIX filesystem from using iget() and read_inode().  Replace
minix_read_inode() with minix_iget(), and call that instead of iget().
minix_iget() then uses iget_locked() directly and returns a proper error code
instead of an inode in the event of an error.

minix_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 &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>limit minixfs printks on corrupted dir i_size</title>
<updated>2007-10-17T15:42:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Sandeen</name>
<email>sandeen@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-17T06:27:15+00:00</published>
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This attempts to address CVE-2006-6058
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6058

first reported at http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-17-11-2006.html

Essentially a corrupted minix dir inode reporting a very large
i_size will loop for a very long time in minix_readdir, minix_find_entry,
etc, because on EIO they just move on to try the next page.  This is
under the BKL, printk-storming as well.  This can lock up the machine
for a very long time.  Simply ratelimiting the printks gets things back
under control.  Make the message a bit more informative while we're here.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Bodo Eggert &lt;7eggert@gmx.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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This attempts to address CVE-2006-6058
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6058

first reported at http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-17-11-2006.html

Essentially a corrupted minix dir inode reporting a very large
i_size will loop for a very long time in minix_readdir, minix_find_entry,
etc, because on EIO they just move on to try the next page.  This is
under the BKL, printk-storming as well.  This can lock up the machine
for a very long time.  Simply ratelimiting the printks gets things back
under control.  Make the message a bit more informative while we're here.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Bodo Eggert &lt;7eggert@gmx.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>fs: mark nibblemap const</title>
<updated>2007-10-17T15:42:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Philippe De Muyter</name>
<email>phdm@macqel.be</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-17T06:26:15+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter &lt;phdm@macqel.be&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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Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter &lt;phdm@macqel.be&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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>minixfs: convert to new aops</title>
<updated>2007-10-16T16:42:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Piggin</name>
<email>npiggin@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-16T08:25:21+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andries Brouwer &lt;Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl&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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Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andries Brouwer &lt;Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl&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>mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().</title>
<updated>2007-07-20T01:11:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Mundt</name>
<email>lethal@linux-sh.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-20T01:11:58+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
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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 &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile()</title>
<updated>2007-07-10T06:04:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>jens.axboe@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-06-01T09:49:19+00:00</published>
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They can use generic_file_splice_read() instead. Since sys_sendfile() now
prefers that, there should be no change in behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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They can use generic_file_splice_read() instead. Since sys_sendfile() now
prefers that, there should be no change in behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Detach sched.h from mm.h</title>
<updated>2007-05-21T16:18:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-20T21:22:52+00:00</published>
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First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline
function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock()
mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why.

This patch
a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h
b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c
c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation
d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly.
e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were
   getting them indirectly

Net result is:
a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if
   they don't need sched.h
b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files:
   on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files,
   after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%).

Cross-compile tested on

	all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs,
	alpha alpha-up
	arm
	i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig
	ia64 ia64-up
	m68k
	mips
	parisc parisc-up
	powerpc powerpc-up
	s390 s390-up
	sparc sparc-up
	sparc64 sparc64-up
	um-x86_64
	x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig

as well as my two usual configs.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline
function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock()
mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why.

This patch
a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h
b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c
c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation
d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly.
e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were
   getting them indirectly

Net result is:
a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if
   they don't need sched.h
b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files:
   on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files,
   after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%).

Cross-compile tested on

	all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs,
	alpha alpha-up
	arm
	i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig
	ia64 ia64-up
	m68k
	mips
	parisc parisc-up
	powerpc powerpc-up
	s390 s390-up
	sparc sparc-up
	sparc64 sparc64-up
	um-x86_64
	x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig

as well as my two usual configs.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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