The patch titled fs/locks.c: remove init_once() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is fs-locksc-remove-init_once.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: fs/locks.c: remove init_once() From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> Remove SLAB initialization entirely, as suggested by Bruce and Linus. Allocate with __GFP_ZERO instead and only initialize list heads. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/locks.c | 41 ++++++++++------------------------------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/locks.c~fs-locksc-remove-init_once fs/locks.c --- a/fs/locks.c~fs-locksc-remove-init_once +++ a/fs/locks.c @@ -160,26 +160,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unlock_flocks); static struct kmem_cache *filelock_cache __read_mostly; -static void locks_init_lock_always(struct file_lock *fl) +static void locks_init_lock_heads(struct file_lock *fl) { - fl->fl_next = NULL; - fl->fl_fasync = NULL; - fl->fl_owner = NULL; - fl->fl_pid = 0; - fl->fl_nspid = NULL; - fl->fl_file = NULL; - fl->fl_flags = 0; - fl->fl_type = 0; - fl->fl_start = fl->fl_end = 0; + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fl->fl_link); + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fl->fl_block); + init_waitqueue_head(&fl->fl_wait); } /* Allocate an empty lock structure. */ struct file_lock *locks_alloc_lock(void) { - struct file_lock *fl = kmem_cache_alloc(filelock_cache, GFP_KERNEL); + struct file_lock *fl = kmem_cache_zalloc(filelock_cache, GFP_KERNEL); if (fl) - locks_init_lock_always(fl); + locks_init_lock_heads(fl); return fl; } @@ -215,27 +209,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(locks_free_lock); void locks_init_lock(struct file_lock *fl) { - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fl->fl_link); - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fl->fl_block); - init_waitqueue_head(&fl->fl_wait); - fl->fl_ops = NULL; - fl->fl_lmops = NULL; - locks_init_lock_always(fl); + memset(fl, 0, sizeof(struct file_lock)); + locks_init_lock_heads(fl); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(locks_init_lock); -/* - * Initialises the fields of the file lock which are invariant for - * free file_locks. - */ -static void init_once(void *foo) -{ - struct file_lock *lock = (struct file_lock *) foo; - - locks_init_lock(lock); -} - static void locks_copy_private(struct file_lock *new, struct file_lock *fl) { if (fl->fl_ops) { @@ -2333,8 +2312,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(lock_may_write); static int __init filelock_init(void) { filelock_cache = kmem_cache_create("file_lock_cache", - sizeof(struct file_lock), 0, SLAB_PANIC, - init_once); + sizeof(struct file_lock), 0, SLAB_PANIC, NULL); + return 0; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mszeredi@xxxxxxx are origin.patch fs-locksc-remove-init_once.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