linux.git/fs/romfs/inode.c, branch master

NOMMU: Make it possible for RomFS to use MTD devices directly

2009-03-24T09:01:32+00:00

Change RomFS so that it can use MTD devices directly - without the intercession
of the block layer - as well as using block devices.

This permits RomFS:

 (1) to use the MTD direct mapping facility available under NOMMU conditions if
     the underlying device is directly accessible by the CPU (including XIP);

 (2) and thus to be used when the block layer is disabled.

RomFS can be configured with support just for MTD devices, just for Block
devices or for both.  If RomFS is configured for both, then it will treat
mtdblock device files as MTD backing stores, not block layer backing stores.

I tested this using a CONFIG_MMU=n CONFIG_BLOCK=n kernel running on my FRV
board with a RomFS image installed on the mtdram test device.  I see my test
program being run XIP:

	# cat /proc/maps
	...
	c0c000b0-c0c01f8c r-xs 00000000 1f:00 144        /mnt/doshm
	...

GDB on the kernel can be used to show that these addresses are within the
set-aside RAM space.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Tested-by: Bernd Schmidt 
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

romfs: romfs_iget() - unsigned ino >= 0 is always true

2009-01-08T16:31:14+00:00

romfs_strnlen() returns int
unsigned X >= 0 is always true

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: roel kluin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

zero i_uid/i_gid on inode allocation

2009-01-05T16:54:28+00:00

... and don't bother in callers.  Don't bother with zeroing i_blocks,
while we are at it - it's already been zeroed.

i_mode is not worth the effort; it has no common default value.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

romfs_readpage: don't report errors for pages beyond i_size

2008-07-30T21:30:34+00:00

We zero-fill them like we are supposed to, and that's all fine.  It's
only an error if the 'romfs_copyfrom()' routine isn't able to fill the
data that is supposed to be there.

Most of the patch is really just re-organizing the code a bit, and using
separate variables for the error value and for how much of the page we
actually filled from the filesystem.

Reported-and-tested-by: Chris Fester 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Matt Waddel 
Cc: Greg Ungerer 
Signed-of-by: Linus Torvalds

SL*B: drop kmem cache argument from constructor

2008-07-26T19:00:07+00:00

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 
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg 
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Jon Tollefson 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Matt Mackall 
[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 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ROMFS: Fix up an error in iget removal

2008-03-20T01:53:36+00:00

Fix up an error in iget removal in which romfs_lookup() making a successful
call to romfs_iget() continues through the negative/error handling (previously
the successful case jumped around the negative/error handling case):

 (1) inode is initialised to NULL at the top of the function, eliminating the
     need for specific negative-inode handling.  This means the positive
     success handling now flows straight through.

 (2) Rename the labels to be clearer about what they mean.

Also make romfs_lookup()'s result variable of type long so as to avoid
32-bit/64-bit conversions with PTR_ERR() and friends.

Based upon a report and patch from Adam Richter.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: "Adam J. Richter" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

iget: stop ROMFS from using iget() and read_inode()

2008-02-07T16:42:28+00:00

Stop the ROMFS filesystem from using iget() and read_inode().  Replace
romfs_read_inode() with romfs_iget(), and call that instead of iget().
romfs_iget() then uses iget_locked() directly and returns a proper error code
instead of an inode in the event of an error.

romfs_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 
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs/romfs/inode.c: trivial improvements

2007-10-17T15:42:47+00:00

- There are no lists in fs/romfs/inode.c, so using list_entry
  is a bit confusing.  Replace it with container_of.

- It is unnecessary to cast the return value of
  kmem_cache_alloc, since it returns a void* pointer.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Slab API: remove useless ctor parameter and reorder parameters

2007-10-17T15:42:45+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
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