Revision 6328650bb4d854a7dc1498d1c0048b838b0d340c authored by Hugh Dickins on 03 August 2011, 23:21:18 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 04 August 2011, 00:25:22 UTC
A patchset to extend tmpfs to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE by abandoning its peculiar swap vector, instead keeping a file's swap entries in the same radix tree as its struct page pointers: thus saving memory, and simplifying its code and locking. This patch: The radix_tree is used by several subsystems for different purposes. A major use is to store the struct page pointers of a file's pagecache for memory management. But what if mm wanted to store something other than page pointers there too? The low bit of a radix_tree entry is already used to denote an indirect pointer, for internal use, and the unlikely radix_tree_deref_retry() case. Define the next bit as denoting an exceptional entry, and supply inline functions radix_tree_exception() to return non-0 in either unlikely case, and radix_tree_exceptional_entry() to return non-0 in the second case. If a subsystem already uses radix_tree with that bit set, no problem: it does not affect internal workings at all, but is defined for the convenience of those storing well-aligned pointers in the radix_tree. The radix_tree_gang_lookups have an implicit assumption that the caller can deduce the offset of each entry returned e.g. by the page->index of a struct page. But that may not be feasible for some kinds of item to be stored there. radix_tree_gang_lookup_slot() allow for an optional indices argument, output array in which to return those offsets. The same could be added to other radix_tree_gang_lookups, but for now keep it to the only one for which we need it. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Makefile | -rw-r--r-- | 394 bytes |
compat.c | -rw-r--r-- | 17.0 KB |
compat_mq.c | -rw-r--r-- | 4.1 KB |
ipc_sysctl.c | -rw-r--r-- | 6.0 KB |
ipcns_notifier.c | -rw-r--r-- | 2.2 KB |
mq_sysctl.c | -rw-r--r-- | 2.7 KB |
mqueue.c | -rw-r--r-- | 30.5 KB |
msg.c | -rw-r--r-- | 20.9 KB |
msgutil.c | -rw-r--r-- | 2.8 KB |
namespace.c | -rw-r--r-- | 4.3 KB |
sem.c | -rw-r--r-- | 40.4 KB |
shm.c | -rw-r--r-- | 29.0 KB |
syscall.c | -rw-r--r-- | 2.3 KB |
util.c | -rw-r--r-- | 22.8 KB |
util.h | -rw-r--r-- | 5.3 KB |
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