From: Vadim Lobanov Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:10:43 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [PATCH] fdtable: Provide free_fdtable() wrapper X-Git-Tag: v2.6.20-rc2~25 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=01b2d93ca4c495f056471189ac6c4e6ac4cbbccb;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] fdtable: Provide free_fdtable() wrapper Christoph Hellwig has expressed concerns that the recent fdtable changes expose the details of the RCU methodology used to release no-longer-used fdtable structures to the rest of the kernel. The trivial patch below addresses these concerns by introducing the appropriate free_fdtable() calls, which simply wrap the release RCU usage. Since free_fdtable() is a one-liner, it makes sense to promote it to an inline helper. Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/fs/file.c b/fs/file.c index 857fa49e98..c5575de011 100644 --- a/fs/file.c +++ b/fs/file.c @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ static int expand_fdtable(struct files_struct *files, int nr) copy_fdtable(new_fdt, cur_fdt); rcu_assign_pointer(files->fdt, new_fdt); if (cur_fdt->max_fds > NR_OPEN_DEFAULT) - call_rcu(&cur_fdt->rcu, free_fdtable_rcu); + free_fdtable(cur_fdt); } else { /* Somebody else expanded, so undo our attempt */ free_fdarr(new_fdt); diff --git a/include/linux/file.h b/include/linux/file.h index edca361f2a..a59001e9ea 100644 --- a/include/linux/file.h +++ b/include/linux/file.h @@ -80,6 +80,11 @@ extern int expand_files(struct files_struct *, int nr); extern void free_fdtable_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu); extern void __init files_defer_init(void); +static inline void free_fdtable(struct fdtable *fdt) +{ + call_rcu(&fdt->rcu, free_fdtable_rcu); +} + static inline struct file * fcheck_files(struct files_struct *files, unsigned int fd) { struct file * file = NULL; diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 122fadb972..85917c2bf0 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ void fastcall put_files_struct(struct files_struct *files) fdt = files_fdtable(files); if (fdt != &files->fdtab) kmem_cache_free(files_cachep, files); - call_rcu(&fdt->rcu, free_fdtable_rcu); + free_fdtable(fdt); } }