In order to support defragmentation on the dentry cache we need to have
an determined object state at all times. Without a destructor the object
would have a random state after allocation.
So provide a constructor.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/dcache.c | 26 ++++++++++++++------------
1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 71e4877..282a467 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -874,6 +874,16 @@ static struct shrinker dcache_shrinker = {
.seeks = DEFAULT_SEEKS,
};
+void dcache_ctor(void *p, struct kmem_cache *s, unsigned long flags)
+{
+ struct dentry *dentry = p;
+
+ spin_lock_init(&dentry->d_lock);
+ dentry->d_inode = NULL;
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dentry->d_lru);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dentry->d_alias);
+}
+
/**
* d_alloc - allocate a dcache entry
* @parent: parent of entry to allocate
@@ -911,8 +921,6 @@ struct dentry *d_alloc(struct dentry * parent, const struct
qstr *name)
atomic_set(&dentry->d_count, 1);
dentry->d_flags = DCACHE_UNHASHED;
- spin_lock_init(&dentry->d_lock);
- dentry->d_inode = NULL;
dentry->d_parent = NULL;
dentry->d_sb = NULL;
dentry->d_op = NULL;
@@ -922,9 +930,7 @@ struct dentry *d_alloc(struct dentry * parent, const struct
qstr *name)
dentry->d_cookie = NULL;
#endif
INIT_HLIST_NODE(&dentry->d_hash);
- INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dentry->d_lru);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dentry->d_subdirs);
- INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dentry->d_alias);
if (parent) {
dentry->d_parent = dget(parent);
@@ -2098,14 +2104,10 @@ static void __init dcache_init(unsigned long mempages)
{
int loop;
- /*
- * A constructor could be added for stable state like the lists,
- * but it is probably not worth it because of the cache nature
- * of the dcache.
- */
- dentry_cache = KMEM_CACHE(dentry,
- SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT|SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_MEM_SPREAD);
-
+ dentry_cache = kmem_cache_create("dentry_cache", sizeof(struct dentry),
+ 0, SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT|SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_MEM_SPREAD,
+ dcache_ctor);
+
register_shrinker(&dcache_shrinker);
/* Hash may have been set up in dcache_init_early */
--
1.5.2.4
--
-
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