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authorLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>2008-04-28 05:13:26 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-28 11:58:25 -0400
commit71fe804b6d56d6a7aed680e096901434cef6a2c3 (patch)
tree3dd437e09fe6ee57644c72c79e08c562d4bb6389 /include/linux/shmem_fs.h
parent3f226aa1cbc006f9d90f22084f519ad2a1286cd8 (diff)
mempolicy: use struct mempolicy pointer in shmem_sb_info
This patch replaces the mempolicy mode, mode_flags, and nodemask in the shmem_sb_info struct with a struct mempolicy pointer, initialized to NULL. This removes dependency on the details of mempolicy from shmem.c and hugetlbfs inode.c and simplifies the interfaces. mpol_parse_str() in mempolicy.c is changed to return, via a pointer to a pointer arg, a struct mempolicy pointer on success. For MPOL_DEFAULT, the returned pointer is NULL. Further, mpol_parse_str() now takes a 'no_context' argument that causes the input nodemask to be stored in the w.user_nodemask of the created mempolicy for use when the mempolicy is installed in a tmpfs inode shared policy tree. At that time, any cpuset contextualization is applied to the original input nodemask. This preserves the previous behavior where the input nodemask was stored in the superblock. We can think of the returned mempolicy as "context free". Because mpol_parse_str() is now calling mpol_new(), we can remove from mpol_to_str() the semantic checks that mpol_new() already performs. Add 'no_context' parameter to mpol_to_str() to specify that it should format the nodemask in w.user_nodemask for 'bind' and 'interleave' policies. Change mpol_shared_policy_init() to take a pointer to a "context free" struct mempolicy and to create a new, "contextualized" mempolicy using the mode, mode_flags and user_nodemask from the input mempolicy. Note: we know that the mempolicy passed to mpol_to_str() or mpol_shared_policy_init() from a tmpfs superblock is "context free". This is currently the only instance thereof. However, if we found more uses for this concept, and introduced any ambiguity as to whether a mempolicy was context free or not, we could add another internal mode flag to identify context free mempolicies. Then, we could remove the 'no_context' argument from mpol_to_str(). Added shmem_get_sbmpol() to return a reference counted superblock mempolicy, if one exists, to pass to mpol_shared_policy_init(). We must add the reference under the sb stat_lock to prevent races with replacement of the mpol by remount. This reference is removed in mpol_shared_policy_init(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: another build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: yet another build fix] Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/shmem_fs.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/shmem_fs.h4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h b/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
index d7699a628d78..f2d12d5a21b8 100644
--- a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
@@ -34,9 +34,7 @@ struct shmem_sb_info {
34 uid_t uid; /* Mount uid for root directory */ 34 uid_t uid; /* Mount uid for root directory */
35 gid_t gid; /* Mount gid for root directory */ 35 gid_t gid; /* Mount gid for root directory */
36 mode_t mode; /* Mount mode for root directory */ 36 mode_t mode; /* Mount mode for root directory */
37 unsigned short policy; /* Default NUMA memory alloc policy */ 37 struct mempolicy *mpol; /* default memory policy for mappings */
38 unsigned short flags; /* Optional mempolicy flags */
39 nodemask_t policy_nodes; /* nodemask for preferred and bind */
40}; 38};
41 39
42static inline struct shmem_inode_info *SHMEM_I(struct inode *inode) 40static inline struct shmem_inode_info *SHMEM_I(struct inode *inode)