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Trond Myklebust
e57aed77ad SUNRPC: One more clean up for rpc_create_client_dir()
In order to allow rpc_pipefs to create directories with different types of
subtrees, it is useful to allow the caller to customise the subtree filling
process.
In order to do so, we separate out the parts which are specific to making
an RPC client directory, and put them in a separate helper, then we convert
the process of filling the directory contents into a callback.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-08-09 15:14:26 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
23ac658170 SUNRPC: clean up rpc_setup_pipedir()
There is still a little wart or two there: Since we've already got a
vfsmount, we might as well pass that in to rpc_create_client_dir.
Another point is that if we open code __rpc_lookup_path() here, then we can
avoid looking up the entire parent directory path over and over again: it
doesn't change.

Also get rid of rpc_clnt->cl_pathname, since it has no users...

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-08-09 15:14:25 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
7d59d1e865 SUNRPC: Clean up rpc_create_client_dir()
Factor out the code that does lookups from the code that actually creates
the directory.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-08-09 15:14:23 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
458adb8ba9 SUNRPC: Rename rpc_mkdir to rpc_create_client_dir()
This reflects the fact that rpc_mkdir() as it stands today, can only create
a RPC client type directory.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-08-09 15:14:22 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
bb1567491e SUNRPC: rpc_pipefs cleanup
Move the files[] array closer to rpc_fill_super()

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-08-09 15:14:21 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
ac6fecee31 SUNRPC: Clean up rpc_populate/depopulate
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-08-09 15:14:20 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
cfeaa4a3ca SUNRPC: Clean up rpc_lookup_create
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-08-09 15:14:20 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
810d90bc2a SUNRPC: Clean up rpc_unlink()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-08-09 15:14:18 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
7589806e96 SUNRPC: Clean up file creation code in rpc_pipefs
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-08-09 15:14:17 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
b5bb61da2e SUNRPC: Clean up rpc_pipefs lookup code...
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-08-09 15:14:17 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
7364af6a2d SUNRPC: Allow rpc_pipefs_ops to have null values for upcall and downcall
Also ensure that we use the umode_t type when appropriate...

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-08-09 15:14:16 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
b693ba4a33 SUNRPC: Constify rpc_pipe_ops...
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-08-09 15:14:15 -04:00
Al Viro
3ba13d179e constify dentry_operations: rest
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-03-27 14:44:03 -04:00
Al Viro
56ff5efad9 zero i_uid/i_gid on inode allocation
... 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 <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-01-05 11:54:28 -05:00
Olga Kornievskaia
61054b14d5 nfsd: support callbacks with gss flavors
This patch adds server-side support for callbacks other than AUTH_SYS.

Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 16:19:00 -05:00
\"J. Bruce Fields\
e712804ae4 rpc: call release_pipe only on last close
I can't see any reason we need to call this until either the kernel or
the last gssd closes the pipe.

Also, this allows to guarantee that open_pipe and release_pipe are
called strictly in pairs; open_pipe on gssd's first open, release_pipe
on gssd's last close (or on the close of the kernel side of the pipe, if
that comes first).

That will make it very easy for the gss code to keep track of which
pipes gssd is using.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 16:09:47 -05:00
\"J. Bruce Fields\
c381060869 rpc: add an rpc_pipe_open method
We want to transition to a new gssd upcall which is text-based and more
easily extensible.

To simplify upgrades, as well as testing and debugging, it will help if
we can upgrade gssd (to a version which understands the new upcall)
without having to choose at boot (or module-load) time whether we want
the new or the old upcall.

We will do this by providing two different pipes: one named, as
currently, after the mechanism (normally "krb5"), and supporting the
old upcall.  One named "gssd" and supporting the new upcall version.

We allow gssd to indicate which version it supports by its choice of
which pipe to open.

As we have no interest in supporting *simultaneous* use of both
versions, we'll forbid opening both pipes at the same time.

So, add a new pipe_open callback to the rpc_pipefs api, which the gss
code can use to track which pipes have been open, and to refuse opens of
incompatible pipes.

We only need this to be called on the first open of a given pipe.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 16:08:32 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
468039ee46 SUNRPC: Convert the xdr helpers and rpc_pipefs to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
We've never considered the sunrpc code as part of any ABI to be used by
out-of-tree modules.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-12-23 15:21:31 -05:00
Alexey Dobriyan
51cc50685a SL*B: drop kmem cache argument from constructor
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 <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
[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 <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:07 -07:00
Harvey Harrison
0dc47877a3 net: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-05 20:47:47 -08:00
Jan Blunck
1d957f9bf8 Introduce path_put()
* Add path_put() functions for releasing a reference to the dentry and
  vfsmount of a struct path in the right order

* Switch from path_release(nd) to path_put(&nd->path)

* Rename dput_path() to path_put_conditional()

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-14 21:13:33 -08:00
Jan Blunck
4ac9137858 Embed a struct path into struct nameidata instead of nd->{dentry,mnt}
This is the central patch of a cleanup series. In most cases there is no good
reason why someone would want to use a dentry for itself. This series reflects
that fact and embeds a struct path into nameidata.

Together with the other patches of this series
- it enforced the correct order of getting/releasing the reference count on
  <dentry,vfsmount> pairs
- it prepares the VFS for stacking support since it is essential to have a
  struct path in every place where the stack can be traversed
- it reduces the overall code size:

without patch series:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
5321639  858418  715768 6895825  6938d1 vmlinux

with patch series:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
5320026  858418  715768 6894212  693284 vmlinux

This patch:

Switch from nd->{dentry,mnt} to nd->path.{dentry,mnt} everywhere.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix smack]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-14 21:13:33 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
65b6e42cdc docbook: sunrpc filenames and notation fixes
Use updated file list for docbook files and
fix kernel-doc warnings in sunrpc:
Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c:689): No description found for parameter 'rpc_client'
Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c:765): No description found for parameter 'flags'
Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//net/sunrpc/clnt.c:584): No description found for parameter 'tk_ops'
Warning(linux-2.6.24-git12//net/sunrpc/clnt.c:618): No description found for parameter 'bufsize'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-13 16:21:19 -08:00
Chuck Lever
9b45b74ce2 SUNRPC: Remove an unneeded implicit type cast when calling rpc_depopulate()
The two arguments of rpc_depopulate() that pass in inode numbers should use
the same type as inode->i_ino: unsigned long.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:43 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
a6eaf8bdf9 SUNRPC: Move exported declarations to the function declarations
Do this for all RPC client related functions and XDR functions.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:28 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
93a44a75b9 sunrpc: document the rpc_pipefs kernel api
Add kerneldoc comments for the rpc_pipefs.c functions that are exported.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:27 -05:00
J. Bruce Fields
eda4f9b799 sunrpc: rpc_pipe_poll may miss available data in some cases
Pipe messages start out life on a queue on the inode, but when first
read they're moved to the filp's private pointer.  So it's possible for
a poll here to return null even though there's a partially read message
available.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-11-17 13:08:47 -05:00
Christoph Lameter
4ba9b9d0ba Slab API: remove useless ctor parameter and reorder parameters
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 <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:45 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
bf19aacecb nfs: add server port to rpc_pipe info file
On the client, when an alternate server port is specified on the mount
commandline, we need to make sure gssd knows about it.

Also, on the server side, when we're sending krb5 callbacks to the
client, we'll use the same mechanism to let gssd know about the callback
port.

Thanks to Olga Kornievskaia for testing and for an earlier
implementation.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:20:25 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
50e437d522 SUNRPC: Convert rpc_pipefs to use the generic filesystem notification hooks
This will allow rpc.gssd to use inotify instead of dnotify in order to
locate new rpc upcall pipes.

This also requires the exporting of __audit_inode_child(), which is used by
fsnotify_create() and fsnotify_mkdir(). Ccing David Woodhouse.

Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:15:26 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
4011cd9788 SUNRPC: Replace flush_workqueue() with cancel_work_sync() and friends
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-08-07 16:13:01 -04:00
Paul Mundt
20c2df83d2 mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().
Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f22 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 <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
4ac4efc1f5 sunrpc: use vfs_path_lookup
use vfs_path_lookup instead of open-coding the necessary functionality.

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:45 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
03a1256f06 SUNRPC: Add a field to track the number of kernel users of an rpc_pipe
This allows us to correctly deduce when we need to remove the pipe.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:33 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
62e1761cef SUNRPC: Clean up rpc_pipefs.
Add a dentry_ops with a d_delete() method in order to ensure that dentries
are removed as soon as the last reference is gone.

Clean up rpc_depopulate() so that it only removes files that were created
via rpc_populate().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:33 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
34f3089608 SUNRPC: Enable non-exclusive create in rpc_mkpipe()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:32 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
6e84c7b66a SUNRPC: Add a downcall queue to struct rpc_inode
Currently, the downcall queue is tied to the struct gss_auth, which means
that different RPCSEC_GSS pseudoflavours must use different upcall pipes.
Add a list to struct rpc_inode that can be used instead.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:32 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
34f52e3591 SUNRPC: Convert rpc_clnt->cl_users to a kref
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:28 -04:00
Christoph Lameter
a35afb830f Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR
SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR is always specified. No point in checking it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-17 05:23:04 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
5bd5f5812b sunrpc: fix error path in module_init
register_rpc_pipefs() needs to clean up rpc_inode_cache
by kmem_cache_destroy() on register_filesystem() failure.

init_sunrpc() needs to unregister rpc_pipe_fs by unregister_rpc_pipefs()
when rpc_init_mempool() returns error.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09 12:30:54 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
50953fe9e0 slab allocators: Remove SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL flag
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 <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:57 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
d9bc125caf Merge branch 'master' of /home/trondmy/kernel/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:

	net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_crypto.c
	net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_spkm3_token.c
	net/sunrpc/clnt.c

Merge with mainline and fix conflicts.
2007-02-12 22:43:25 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
da7071d7e3 [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 8
Many struct file_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 <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12 09:48:46 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
1d21632d36 NFSv4: Ensure non-root user can trigger a referral automount
Currently only root can trigger a referral automount because only root
can access rpc_pipefs directories. Enabling read access to non-root
should be harmless (they can still not access the pipes themselves)
and will suffice to fix this problem.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-02-03 15:35:10 -08:00
Josef Sipek
303b46bb77 [PATCH] struct path: convert sunrpc
Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:50 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
e18b890bb0 [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t
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 <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
e94b176609 [PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_KERNEL
SLAB_KERNEL is an alias of GFP_KERNEL.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:24 -08:00
David Howells
65f27f3844 WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context data
Pass the work_struct pointer to the work function rather than context data.
The work function can use container_of() to work out the data.

For the cases where the container of the work_struct may go away the moment the
pending bit is cleared, it is made possible to defer the release of the
structure by deferring the clearing of the pending bit.

To make this work, an extra flag is introduced into the management side of the
work_struct.  This governs auto-release of the structure upon execution.

Ordinarily, the work queue executor would release the work_struct for further
scheduling or deallocation by clearing the pending bit prior to jumping to the
work function.  This means that, unless the driver makes some guarantee itself
that the work_struct won't go away, the work function may not access anything
else in the work_struct or its container lest they be deallocated..  This is a
problem if the auxiliary data is taken away (as done by the last patch).

However, if the pending bit is *not* cleared before jumping to the work
function, then the work function *may* access the work_struct and its container
with no problems.  But then the work function must itself release the
work_struct by calling work_release().

In most cases, automatic release is fine, so this is the default.  Special
initiators exist for the non-auto-release case (ending in _NAR).


Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-22 14:55:48 +00:00
David Howells
52bad64d95 WorkStruct: Separate delayable and non-delayable events.
Separate delayable work items from non-delayable work items be splitting them
into a separate structure (delayed_work), which incorporates a work_struct and
the timer_list removed from work_struct.

The work_struct struct is huge, and this limits it's usefulness.  On a 64-bit
architecture it's nearly 100 bytes in size.  This reduces that by half for the
non-delayable type of event.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-22 14:54:01 +00:00
Dave Hansen
d8c76e6f45 [PATCH] r/o bind mount prepwork: inc_nlink() helper
This is mostly included for parity with dec_nlink(), where we will have some
more hooks.  This one should stay pretty darn straightforward for now.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:30 -07:00