The patch titled fdtable: Provide free_fdtable() wrapper has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was fdtable-provide-free_fdtable-wrapper.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: fdtable: Provide free_fdtable() wrapper From: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 <vlobanov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/file.c | 2 +- include/linux/file.h | 5 +++++ kernel/exit.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/file.c~fdtable-provide-free_fdtable-wrapper fs/file.c --- a/fs/file.c~fdtable-provide-free_fdtable-wrapper +++ a/fs/file.c @@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ static int expand_fdtable(struct files_s 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 -puN include/linux/file.h~fdtable-provide-free_fdtable-wrapper include/linux/file.h --- a/include/linux/file.h~fdtable-provide-free_fdtable-wrapper +++ a/include/linux/file.h @@ -80,6 +80,11 @@ extern int expand_files(struct files_str 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 -puN kernel/exit.c~fdtable-provide-free_fdtable-wrapper kernel/exit.c --- a/kernel/exit.c~fdtable-provide-free_fdtable-wrapper +++ a/kernel/exit.c @@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ void fastcall put_files_struct(struct fi fdt = files_fdtable(files); if (fdt != &files->fdtab) kmem_cache_free(files_cachep, files); - call_rcu(&fdt->rcu, free_fdtable_rcu); + free_fdtable(fdt); } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from vlobanov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch fdtable-make-fdarray-and-fdsets-equal-in-size-slim.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html