On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 02:41:55PM +0000, Wilcox, Matthew R wrote: > So based on the bottom two bits, we can tell what this entry is: > > 00 - data pointer > 01 - indirect entry (pointer to another level of the radix tree) > 10 - exceptional entry > 11 - locked exceptional entry > > I was concerned that this patch would clash with the support for multi-order > entries in the radix tree, but after some thought, I now believe that it > doesn't. The multi-order entries changes permit finding data pointers or > exceptional entries in the tree where before only indirect entries could be > found, but with the changes to radix_tree_is_indirect_ptr below, everything > should work fine. Yep, this seems workable to me. > -----Original Message----- > From: NeilBrown [mailto:neilb@xxxxxxxx] > Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2016 9:09 PM > To: Ross Zwisler; Wilcox, Matthew R; Andrew Morton; Jan Kara > Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx > Subject: [PATCH 2/3] radix-tree: make 'indirect' bit available to exception entries. > > A pointer to a radix_tree_node will always have the 'exception' > bit cleared, so if the exception bit is set the value cannot > be an indirect pointer. Thus it is safe to make the 'indirect bit' > available to store extra information in exception entries. > > This patch adds a 'PTR_MASK' and a value is only treated as > an indirect (pointer) entry the 2 ls-bits are '01'. > > The change in radix-tree.c ensures the stored value still looks like an > indirect pointer, and saves a load as well. > > We could swap the two bits and so keep all the exectional bits contigious. > But I have other plans for that bit.... > > Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> > --- > include/linux/radix-tree.h | 11 +++++++++-- > lib/radix-tree.c | 2 +- > 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/include/linux/radix-tree.h b/include/linux/radix-tree.h > index 968150ab8a1c..450c12b546b7 100644 > --- a/include/linux/radix-tree.h > +++ b/include/linux/radix-tree.h > @@ -40,8 +40,13 @@ > * Indirect pointer in fact is also used to tag the last pointer of a node > * when it is shrunk, before we rcu free the node. See shrink code for > * details. > + * > + * To allow an exception entry to only lose one bit, we ignore > + * the INDIRECT bit when the exception bit is set. So an entry is > + * indirect if the least significant 2 bits are 01. > */ > #define RADIX_TREE_INDIRECT_PTR 1 > +#define RADIX_TREE_INDIRECT_MASK 3 > /* > * A common use of the radix tree is to store pointers to struct pages; > * but shmem/tmpfs needs also to store swap entries in the same tree: > @@ -53,7 +58,8 @@ > > static inline int radix_tree_is_indirect_ptr(void *ptr) > { > - return (int)((unsigned long)ptr & RADIX_TREE_INDIRECT_PTR); > + return ((unsigned long)ptr & RADIX_TREE_INDIRECT_MASK) > + == RADIX_TREE_INDIRECT_PTR; > } > > /*** radix-tree API starts here ***/ > @@ -221,7 +227,8 @@ static inline void *radix_tree_deref_slot_protected(void **pslot, > */ > static inline int radix_tree_deref_retry(void *arg) > { > - return unlikely((unsigned long)arg & RADIX_TREE_INDIRECT_PTR); > + return unlikely(((unsigned long)arg & RADIX_TREE_INDIRECT_MASK) > + == RADIX_TREE_INDIRECT_PTR); > } > > /** > diff --git a/lib/radix-tree.c b/lib/radix-tree.c > index 6b79e9026e24..37d4643ab5c0 100644 > --- a/lib/radix-tree.c > +++ b/lib/radix-tree.c > @@ -1305,7 +1305,7 @@ static inline void radix_tree_shrink(struct radix_tree_root *root) > * to force callers to retry. > */ > if (root->height == 0) > - *((unsigned long *)&to_free->slots[0]) |= > + *((unsigned long *)&to_free->slots[0]) = > RADIX_TREE_INDIRECT_PTR; > > radix_tree_node_free(to_free); > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
