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Linus Torvalds db563fc2e8 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
  cifs: handle the TCP_Server_Info->tsk field more carefully
  cifs: fix unlinking of rename target when server doesn't support open file renames
  [CIFS] improve setlease handling
  [CIFS] fix saving of resume key before CIFSFindNext
  cifs: make cifs_rename handle -EACCES errors
  [CIFS] fix build error
  [CIFS] undo changes in cifs_rename_pending_delete if it errors out
  cifs: track DeletePending flag in cifsInodeInfo
  cifs: don't use CREATE_DELETE_ON_CLOSE in cifs_rename_pending_delete
  [CIFS] eliminate usage of kthread_stop for cifsd
  [CIFS] Add nodfs mount option
2008-10-23 10:43:36 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi f696a3659f [PATCH] move executable checking into ->permission()
For execute permission on a regular files we need to check if file has
any execute bits at all, regardless of capabilites.

This check is normally performed by generic_permission() but was also
added to the case when the filesystem defines its own ->permission()
method.  In the latter case the filesystem should be responsible for
performing this check.

Move the check from inode_permission() inside filesystems which are
not calling generic_permission().

Create a helper function execute_ok() that returns true if the inode
is a directory or if any execute bits are present in i_mode.

Also fix up the following code:

 - coda control file is never executable
 - sysctl files are never executable
 - hfs_permission seems broken on MAY_EXEC, remove
 - hfsplus_permission is eqivalent to generic_permission(), remove

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-10-23 05:13:25 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig 3222a3e55f [PATCH] fix ->llseek for more directories
With this patch all directory fops instances that have a readdir
that doesn't take the BKL are switched to generic_file_llseek.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2008-10-23 05:13:21 -04:00
Steve French 84210e9120 [CIFS] improve setlease handling
fcntl(F_SETLEASE) currently is not exported by cifs (nor by local file
systems) so cifs grants leases based on how other local processes have
opened the file not by whether the file is cacheable (oplocked).  This
adds the check to make sure that the file is cacheable on the client
before checking whether we can grant the lease locally
(generic_setlease).  It also adds a mount option for cifs (locallease)
if the user wants to override this and try to grant leases even
if the server did not grant oplock.

Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-10-23 04:42:37 +00:00
Jeff Layton 9a8165fce7 cifs: track DeletePending flag in cifsInodeInfo
cifs: track DeletePending flag in cifsInodeInfo

The QPathInfo call returns a flag that indicates whether DELETE_ON_CLOSE
is set. Track it in the cifsInodeInfo.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-10-20 00:33:52 +00:00
Steve French 54b4602d5f [CIFS] remove trailing whitespace
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-08-11 22:31:40 +00:00
Steve French 2c731afb0d [CIFS] if get root inode fails during mount, cleanup tree connection
CC: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-08-11 22:28:53 +00:00
Steve French ad8b15f0ff [CIFS] list entry can not return null
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-08-08 21:10:16 +00:00
Al Viro e6305c43ed [PATCH] sanitize ->permission() prototype
* kill nameidata * argument; map the 3 bits in ->flags anybody cares
  about to new MAY_... ones and pass with the mask.
* kill redundant gfs2_iop_permission()
* sanitize ecryptfs_permission()
* fix remaining places where ->permission() instances might barf on new
  MAY_... found in mask.

The obvious next target in that direction is permission(9)

folded fix for nfs_permission() breakage from Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:14 -04:00
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
Jonathan Corbet 2fceef397f Merge commit 'v2.6.26' into bkl-removal 2008-07-14 15:29:34 -06:00
Andi Kleen 9465efc9e9 Remove BKL from remote_llseek v2
- Replace remote_llseek with generic_file_llseek_unlocked (to force compilation
failures in all users)
- Change all users to either use generic_file_llseek_unlocked directly or
take the BKL around. I changed the file systems who don't use the BKL
for anything (CIFS, GFS) to call it directly. NCPFS and SMBFS and NFS
take the BKL, but explicitely in their own source now.

I moved them all over in a single patch to avoid unbisectable sections.

Open problem: 32bit kernels can corrupt fpos because its modification
is not atomic, but they can do that anyways because there's other paths who
modify it without BKL.

Do we need a special lock for the pos/f_version = 0 checks?

Trond says the NFS BKL is likely not needed, but keep it for now
until his full audit.

v2: Use generic_file_llseek_unlocked instead of remote_llseek_unlocked
    and factor duplicated code (suggested by hch)

Cc: Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com
Cc: swhiteho@redhat.com
Cc: sfrench@samba.org
Cc: vandrove@vc.cvut.cz

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-07-02 15:06:27 -06:00
Steve French 79ee9a8b2d [CIFS] cifs: fix oops on mount when CONFIG_CIFS_DFS_UPCALL is enabled
simple "mount -t cifs //xxx /mnt" oopsed on strlen of options
http://kerneloops.org/guilty.php?guilty=cifs_get_sb&version=2.6.25-release&start=16711 \
68&end=1703935&class=oops

Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-06-10 21:37:02 +00:00
Steve French 89562b777c [CIFS] add missing seq_printf to cifs_show_options for hard mount option
Also Kari Hurtta noticed a missing check in the same function which is now fixed.

CC: Kari Hurtta <hurtta+gmane@siilo.fmi.fi>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-05-19 22:26:42 +00:00
Steve French 2b280fab12 [CIFS] add more complete mount options to cifs_show_options
adds various options to cifs_show_options
(displayed when you cat /proc/mounts with a cifs mount).  I limited
the new ones to values that are associated with the mount with the
exception of "seal" (which is a per tree connection property, but I
thought was important enough to show through).

Eventually cifs's parse_mount_options also needs to
be rewritten to use the match_token API but that would be a big enough
change that I would prefer that changing parse_mount_options wait
until next release.

Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-05-17 03:12:45 +00:00
Steve French f9ddcca4cf [CIFS] BKL-removal: convert CIFS over to unlocked_ioctl
cifs_ioctl doesn't seem to need the BKL for anything, so convert it over
to use unlocked_ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-05-15 05:51:55 +00:00
Steve French 4b18f2a9c3 [CIFS] convert usage of implicit booleans to bool
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-04-29 00:06:05 +00:00
Steve French 39da984711 [CIFS] Fix statfs formatting
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-04-28 04:04:34 +00:00
Al Viro 42faad9965 [PATCH] restore sane ->umount_begin() API
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-25 09:23:25 -04:00
Igor Mammedov 78d31a3a87 cifs: timeout dfs automounts +little fix.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-25 09:15:26 -04:00
Steve French 0a3abcf75b Merge branch 'master' of /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2008-02-15 21:06:08 +00:00
Roel Kluin 6f7e8f3763 [CIFS] Fix typo in quota operations
Although these experimental operations are not fully implemented, fix the
typo in the definition of the quotactl operations for cifs.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-02-12 20:38:10 +00:00
Steve French 90c81e0b0e [CIFS] clean up some hard to read ifdefs
Christoph had noticed too many ifdefs in the CIFS code making it
hard to read.  This patch removes about a quarter of them from
the C files in cifs by improving a few key ifdefs in the .h files.

Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-02-12 20:32:36 +00:00
Steve French ad7a2926b9 [CIFS] reduce checkpatch warnings
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-02-07 23:25:02 +00:00
David Howells ce634ab28e iget: stop CIFS from using iget() and read_inode()
Stop the CIFS filesystem from using iget() and read_inode().  Replace
cifs_read_inode() with cifs_iget(), and call that instead of iget().
cifs_iget() then uses iget_locked() directly and returns a proper error code
instead of an inode in the event of an error.

cifs_read_super() now returns any error incurred when getting the root inode
instead of ENOMEM.

cifs_iget() needs examining.  The comment "can not call macro FreeXid here
since in a void func" is no longer true.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:27 -08:00
Igor Mammedov 6d5ae0deb1 [CIFS] DFS support: provide shrinkable mounts
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <niallain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-01-25 03:28:31 +00:00
Igor Mammedov e6ab15827e [CIFS] DFS support patchset: Added mountdata
Also cifs_fs_type was made not static for ussage in dfs code.

Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <niallain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-01-11 01:49:48 +00:00
Steve French 6103335de8 [CIFS] DNS name resolution helper upcall for cifs
Adds additional option CIFS_DFS_UPCALL to fs/Kconfig for enabling
        DFS support.  Resolved IP address is saved as a string in the
	key payload.

	Igor has a series of related patches that will follow which finish up
	CIFS DFS support

Acked-by: Igor Mammedov <niallain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-01-09 16:21:36 +00:00
Jeff Layton cea218054a [CIFS] Fix potential data corruption when writing out cached dirty pages
Fix RedHat bug 329431

The idea here is separate "conscious" from "unconscious" flushes.
Conscious flushes are those due to a fsync() or close(). Unconscious
ones are flushes that occur as a side effect of some other operation or
due to memory pressure.

Currently, when an error occurs during an unconscious flush (ENOSPC or
EIO), we toss out the page and don't preserve that error to report to
the user when a conscious flush occurs. If after the unconscious flush,
there are no more dirty pages for the inode, the conscious flush will
simply return success even though there were previous errors when writing
out pages. This can lead to data corruption.

The easiest way to reproduce this is to mount up a CIFS share that's
very close to being full or where the user is very close to quota. mv
a file to the share that's slightly larger than the quota allows. The
writes will all succeed (since they go to pagecache). The mv will do a
setattr to set the new file's attributes. This calls
filemap_write_and_wait,
which will return an error since all of the pages can't be written out.
Then later, when the flush and release ops occur, there are no more
dirty pages in pagecache for the file and those operations return 0. mv
then assumes that the file was written out correctly and deletes the
original.

CIFS already has a write_behind_rc variable where it stores the results
from earlier flushes, but that value is only reported in cifs_close.
Since the VFS ignores the return value from the release operation, this
isn't helpful. We should be reporting this error during the flush
operation.

This patch does the following:

1) changes cifs_fsync to use filemap_write_and_wait and cifs_flush and also
sync to check its return code. If it returns successful, they then check
the value of write_behind_rc to see if an earlier flush had reported any
errors. If so, they return that error and clear write_behind_rc.

2) sets write_behind_rc in a few other places where pages are written
out as a side effect of other operations and the code waits on them.

3) changes cifs_setattr to only call filemap_write_and_wait for
ATTR_SIZE changes.

4) makes cifs_writepages accurately distinguish between EIO and ENOSPC
errors when writing out pages.

Some simple testing indicates that the patch works as expected and that
it fixes the reproduceable known problem.

Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2007-11-20 23:19:03 +00:00
Jeff Layton e545937a51 [CIFS] add OIDs for KRB5 and MSKRB5 to ASN1 parsing routines
Also, fix the parser to recognize them and set the secType
accordingly. Make CIFSSMBNegotiate not error out automatically
after parsing the securityBlob.

Also thanks to Q (Igor) and Simo for their help on this
set of kerberos patches (and Dave Howells for help on the
upcall).

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2007-11-03 05:11:06 +00:00
Jeff Layton 84a15b9354 [CIFS] Register and unregister cifs_spnego_key_type on module init/exit
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2007-11-03 05:02:24 +00:00
Linus Torvalds 2843483d2e Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6: (51 commits)
  [CIFS] log better errors on failed mounts
  [CIFS] Return better error when server requires signing but client forbids
  [CIFS] fix typo
  [CIFS] acl support part 4
  [CIFS] Fix minor problems noticed by scan
  [CIFS] fix bad handling of EAGAIN error on kernel_recvmsg in cifs_demultiplex_thread
  [CIFS] build break
  [CIFS] endian fixes
  [CIFS] endian fixes in new acl code
  [CIFS] Fix some endianness problems in new acl code
  [CIFS] missing #endif from a previous patch
  [CIFS] formatting fixes
  [CIFS] Break up unicode_sessetup string functions
  [CIFS] parse server_GUID in SPNEGO negProt response
  [CIFS]
  [CIFS] Fix endian conversion problem in posix mkdir
  [CIFS] fix build break when lanman not enabled
  [CIFS] remove two sparse warnings
  [CIFS] remove compile warnings when debug disabled
  [CIFS] CIFS ACL support part 3
  ...
2007-10-19 12:00:58 -07:00
Steve French d5d1850109 [CIFS] Fix minor problems noticed by scan
Coverity scan pointed out some minor possible errors.

Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2007-10-17 21:31:52 +00:00
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
Steve French 297647c21f [CIFS] CIFS ACL support part 3
Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishp@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2007-10-12 04:11:59 +00:00
Steve French 26f57364d7 [CIFS] formatting cleanup found by checkpatch
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2007-08-30 22:09:15 +00:00
Cyrill Gorcunov 95ba736210 [CIFS] Fix unbalanced call to GetXid/FreeXid
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2007-08-24 00:23:36 +00:00
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
Steve French 1ff8392c32 Merge branch 'master' of /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	fs/cifs/export.c
2007-07-19 00:38:57 +00:00
Steve French c18c842b1f [CIFS] Allow disabling CIFS Unix Extensions as mount option
Previously the only way to do this was to umount all mounts to that server,
turn off a proc setting (/proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled).

Fixes Samba bugzilla bug number: 4582 (and also 2008)

Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2007-07-18 23:21:09 +00:00
Steve French 63135e088a [CIFS] More whitespace/formatting fixes (noticed by checkpatch)
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2007-07-17 17:34:02 +00:00
Rafael J. Wysocki 8314418629 Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves.  This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.

It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.

The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie.  to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE.  It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear.  Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
Steve French 50c2f75388 [CIFS] whitespace/formatting fixes
This should be the last big batch of whitespace/formatting fixes.
checkpatch warnings for the cifs directory are down about 90% and
many of the remaining ones are harder to remove or make the code
harder to read.

Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2007-07-13 00:33:32 +00:00
Steve French 7521a3c566 [CIFS] Fix oops in cifs_create when nfsd server exports cifs mount
nfsd is passing null nameidata (probably the only one doing that)
on call to create - cifs was missing one check for this.

Note that running nfsd over a cifs mount requires specifying fsid on
the nfs exports entry and requires mounting cifs with serverino mount
option.

Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2007-07-11 18:30:34 +00:00
Jens Axboe 5ffc4ef45b sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile()
They can use generic_file_splice_read() instead. Since sys_sendfile() now
prefers that, there should be no change in behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
Steve French 790fe579f5 [CIFS] more whitespace cleanup
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2007-07-07 19:25:05 +00:00
Steve French 6dc0f87e35 [CIFS] whitespace cleanup
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2007-07-06 23:13:06 +00:00
Akinobu Mita e6985c7f68 [CIFS] fix mempool destroy done in wrong order in cifs error path
Slab cache used as memory pool can not be destroyed before the memory
pool destruction. Because the memory pool still holds some objects and
kmem_cache_destroy() says "Can't free all objects".

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2007-06-04 16:14:59 +00:00
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
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