linux/fs/file_table.c, branch v2.6.19

[PATCH] file: modify struct fown_struct to use a struct pid

2006-10-02T14:57:14Z

File handles can be requested to send sigio and sigurg to processes. By tracking the destination processes using struct pid instead of pid_t we make the interface safe from all potential pid wrap around problems. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] inode-diet: Move i_cdev into a union

2006-09-27T15:26:17Z

Move the i_cdev pointer in struct inode into a union. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Remove obsolete #include

2006-06-30T17:25:36Z

Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

[PATCH] percpu counter data type changes to suppport more than 2**31 ext3 free blocks counter

2006-06-23T14:43:06Z

The percpu counter data type are changed in this set of patches to support more users like ext3 who need more than 32 bit to store the free blocks total in the filesystem. - Generic perpcu counters data type changes. The size of the global counter and local counter were explictly specified using s64 and s32. The global counter is changed from long to s64, while the local counter is changed from long to s32, so we could avoid doing 64 bit update in most cases. - Users of the percpu counters are updated to make use of the new percpu_counter_init() routine now taking an additional parameter to allow users to pass the initial value of the global counter. Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] get_empty_filp tweaks, inline epoll_init_file()

2006-03-23T15:38:17Z

Eliminate a handful of cache references by keeping current in a register instead of reloading (helps x86) and avoiding the overhead of a function call. Inlining eventpoll_init_file() saves 24 bytes. Also reorder file initialization to make writes occur more sequentially. Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise Cc: Davide Libenzi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] fix file counting

2006-03-08T22:14:01Z

I have benchmarked this on an x86_64 NUMA system and see no significant performance difference on kernbench. Tested on both x86_64 and powerpc. The way we do file struct accounting is not very suitable for batched freeing. For scalability reasons, file accounting was constructor/destructor based. This meant that nr_files was decremented only when the object was removed from the slab cache. This is susceptible to slab fragmentation. With RCU based file structure, consequent batched freeing and a test program like Serge's, we just speed this up and end up with a very fragmented slab - llm22:~ # cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr 587730 0 758844 At the same time, I see only a 2000+ objects in filp cache. The following patch I fixes this problem. This patch changes the file counting by removing the filp_count_lock. Instead we use a separate percpu counter, nr_files, for now and all accesses to it are through get_nr_files() api. In the sysctl handler for nr_files, we populate files_stat.nr_files before returning to user. Counting files as an when they are created and destroyed (as opposed to inside slab) allows us to correctly count open files with RCU. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: "David S. Miller" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] capable/capability.h (fs/)

2006-01-12T02:42:13Z

fs: Use where capable() is used. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Tim Schmielau Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] rcu file: use atomic primitives

2006-01-09T04:13:48Z

Use atomic_inc_not_zero for rcu files instead of special case rcuref. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mm: rename kmem_cache_s to kmem_cache

2005-11-07T15:53:24Z

This patch renames struct kmem_cache_s to kmem_cache so we can start using it instead of kmem_cache_t typedef. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] reduce sizeof(struct file)

2005-10-31T01:37:19Z

Now that RCU applied on 'struct file' seems stable, we can place f_rcuhead in a memory location that is not anymore used at call_rcu(&f->f_rcuhead, file_free_rcu) time, to reduce the size of this critical kernel object. The trick I used is to move f_rcuhead and f_list in an union called f_u The callers are changed so that f_rcuhead becomes f_u.fu_rcuhead and f_list becomes f_u.f_list Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds