linux.git/fs/romfs, branch v2.6.25

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

Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR

2007-05-17T12:23:04+00:00

SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR is always specified. No point in checking it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Steven French 
Cc: Michael Halcrow 
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Cc: Miklos Szeredi 
Cc: Steven Whitehouse 
Cc: Roman Zippel 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Dave Kleikamp 
Cc: Trond Myklebust 
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" 
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: David Chinner 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag

2007-05-07T19:12:57+00:00

I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL.  It is only supported by
SLAB.

I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed
to verify that the state is the constructor state again?  The callback is
performed before each freeing of an object.

I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually
before the free.  That also places the check near the code object
manipulation of the object.

Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was
compiled with SLAB debugging on.  If there would be code in a constructor
handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on
SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code.  But there is no such code
in the kernel.  I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real
use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the
same effect (i.e.  add debug code before kfree).

There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be
clear in fs inode caches.  Remove the pointless checks (they would even be
pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors.

This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support.  Remove the check for
unimplemented flags from SLUB.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Mark struct super_operations const

2007-02-12T17:48:47+00:00

This patch is inspired by Arjan's "Patch series to mark struct
file_operations and struct inode_operations const".

Compile tested with gcc & sparse.

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 3

2007-02-12T17:48:46+00:00

Many struct inode_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] struct path: convert romfs

2006-12-08T16:28:49+00:00

Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds