filp_cachep can be static in fs/file_table.c

Instead of creating the "filp" kmem_cache in vfs_caches_init(),
we can do it a litle be later in files_init(), so that filp_cachep
is static to fs/file_table.c

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index bdb3f50248a7..e88c23b85a32 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -2314,9 +2314,6 @@ static void __init dcache_init(void)
 /* SLAB cache for __getname() consumers */
 struct kmem_cache *names_cachep __read_mostly;
 
-/* SLAB cache for file structures */
-struct kmem_cache *filp_cachep __read_mostly;
-
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_genocide);
 
 void __init vfs_caches_init_early(void)
@@ -2338,9 +2335,6 @@ void __init vfs_caches_init(unsigned long mempages)
         names_cachep = kmem_cache_create("names_cache", PATH_MAX, 0,
                         SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
 
-        filp_cachep = kmem_cache_create("filp", sizeof(struct file), 0,
-                        SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
-
         dcache_init();
         inode_init();
         files_init(mempages);