It's ugly and lazy that we do these default aops in case it has not been filled in by the filesystem. A NULL operation should always mean either: we don't support the operation; we don't require any action; or a bug in the filesystem, depending on the context. In practice, if we get rid of these fallbacks, it will be clearer what operations are used by a given address_space_operations struct, reduce branches, reduce #if BLOCK ifdefs, and should allow us to get rid of all the buffer_head knowledge from core mm and fs code. We could add a patch like this which spits out a recipe for how to fix up filesystems and get them all converted quite easily. Index: linux-2.6/mm/filemap.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/filemap.c +++ linux-2.6/mm/filemap.c @@ -2472,7 +2472,14 @@ int try_to_release_page(struct page *pag if (mapping && mapping->a_ops->releasepage) return mapping->a_ops->releasepage(page, gfp_mask); - return try_to_free_buffers(page); + else { + static bool warned = false; + if (!warned) { + warned = true; + print_symbol("address_space_operations %s missing releasepage method. Use try_to_free_buffers.\n", (unsigned long)page->mapping->a_ops); + } + return try_to_free_buffers(page); + } } EXPORT_SYMBOL(try_to_release_page); Index: linux-2.6/mm/page-writeback.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page-writeback.c +++ linux-2.6/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -1159,8 +1159,14 @@ int set_page_dirty(struct page *page) if (likely(mapping)) { int (*spd)(struct page *) = mapping->a_ops->set_page_dirty; #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK - if (!spd) + if (!spd) { + static bool warned = false; + if (!warned) { + warned = true; + print_symbol("address_space_operations %s missing set_page_dirty method. Use __set_page_dirty_buffers.\n", (unsigned long)page->mapping->a_ops); + } spd = __set_page_dirty_buffers; + } #endif return (*spd)(page); } Index: linux-2.6/mm/truncate.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/truncate.c +++ linux-2.6/mm/truncate.c @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ #include <linux/highmem.h> #include <linux/pagevec.h> #include <linux/task_io_accounting_ops.h> -#include <linux/buffer_head.h> /* grr. try_to_release_page, - do_invalidatepage */ +#include <linux/buffer_head.h> /* block_invalidatepage */ +#include <linux/kallsyms.h> #include "internal.h" @@ -40,8 +40,14 @@ void do_invalidatepage(struct page *page void (*invalidatepage)(struct page *, unsigned long); invalidatepage = page->mapping->a_ops->invalidatepage; #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK - if (!invalidatepage) + if (!invalidatepage) { + static bool warned = false; + if (!warned) { + warned = true; + print_symbol("address_space_operations %s missing invalidatepage method. Use block_invalidatepage.\n", (unsigned long)page->mapping->a_ops); + } invalidatepage = block_invalidatepage; + } #endif if (invalidatepage) (*invalidatepage)(page, offset); Index: linux-2.6/fs/inode.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/inode.c +++ linux-2.6/fs/inode.c @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ #include <linux/mount.h> #include <linux/async.h> #include <linux/posix_acl.h> +#include <linux/kallsyms.h> /* * This is needed for the following functions: @@ -311,8 +312,14 @@ void clear_inode(struct inode *inode) might_sleep(); /* XXX: filesystems should invalidate this before calling */ - if (!mapping->a_ops->release) + if (!mapping->a_ops->release) { + static bool warned = false; + if (!warned) { + warned = true; + print_symbol("address_space_operations %s missing release method. Use invalidate_inode_buffers.\n", (unsigned long)mapping->a_ops); + } invalidate_inode_buffers(inode); + } BUG_ON(mapping_has_private(mapping)); BUG_ON(mapping->nrpages); @@ -393,9 +400,14 @@ static int invalidate_list(struct list_h if (inode->i_state & I_NEW) continue; mapping = &inode->i_data; - if (!mapping->a_ops->release) + if (!mapping->a_ops->release) { + static bool warned = false; + if (!warned) { + warned = true; + print_symbol("address_space_operations %s missing release method. Using invalidate_inode_buffers.\n", (unsigned long)mapping->a_ops); + } invalidate_inode_buffers(inode); - else + } else mapping->a_ops->release(mapping, AOP_RELEASE_FORCE); BUG_ON(mapping_has_private(mapping)); if (!atomic_read(&inode->i_count)) { @@ -497,8 +509,14 @@ static void prune_icache(int nr_to_scan) spin_unlock(&inode_lock); if (mapping->a_ops->release) ret = mapping->a_ops->release(mapping, 0); - else + else { + static bool warned = false; + if (!warned) { + warned = true; + print_symbol("address_space_operations %s missing release method. Using remove_inode_buffers.\n", (unsigned long)mapping->a_ops); + } ret = !remove_inode_buffers(inode); + } if (ret) reap += invalidate_mapping_pages(&inode->i_data, 0, -1); Index: linux-2.6/fs/libfs.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/libfs.c +++ linux-2.6/fs/libfs.c @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ #include <linux/exportfs.h> #include <linux/writeback.h> #include <linux/buffer_head.h> +#include <linux/kallsyms.h> #include <asm/uaccess.h> @@ -827,9 +828,14 @@ int simple_fsync(struct file *file, stru int err; int ret; - if (!mapping->a_ops->sync) + if (!mapping->a_ops->sync) { + static bool warned = false; + if (!warned) { + warned = true; + print_symbol("address_space_operations %s missing sync method. Using sync_mapping_buffers.\n", (unsigned long)mapping->a_ops); + } ret = sync_mapping_buffers(mapping); - else + } else ret = mapping->a_ops->sync(mapping, AOP_SYNC_WRITE|AOP_SYNC_WAIT); if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY)) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>