[patch 18/19] dentries: Add constructor

[Christoph Lameter]

In order to support defragmentation on the dentry cache we need to have
a determined object state at all times. Without a constructor the object
would have a random state after allocation.

So provide a constructor.

Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 fs/dcache.c |   26 ++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/fs/dcache.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/dcache.c	2008-07-31 12:18:11.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6/fs/dcache.c	2008-07-31 12:18:27.000000000 -0500
@@ -899,6 +899,16 @@
 	.seeks = DEFAULT_SEEKS,
 };
 
+static void dcache_ctor(void *p)
+{
+	struct dentry *dentry = p;
+
+	spin_lock_init(&dentry->d_lock);
+	dentry->d_inode = NULL;
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dentry->d_lru);
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dentry->d_alias);
+}
+
 /**
  * d_alloc	-	allocate a dcache entry
  * @parent: parent of entry to allocate
@@ -936,8 +946,6 @@
 
 	atomic_set(&dentry->d_count, 1);
 	dentry->d_flags = DCACHE_UNHASHED;
-	spin_lock_init(&dentry->d_lock);
-	dentry->d_inode = NULL;
 	dentry->d_parent = NULL;
 	dentry->d_sb = NULL;
 	dentry->d_op = NULL;
@@ -947,9 +955,7 @@
 	dentry->d_cookie = NULL;
 #endif
 	INIT_HLIST_NODE(&dentry->d_hash);
-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dentry->d_lru);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dentry->d_subdirs);
-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dentry->d_alias);
 
 	if (parent) {
 		dentry->d_parent = dget(parent);
@@ -2174,14 +2180,10 @@
 {
 	int loop;
 
-	/* 
-	 * A constructor could be added for stable state like the lists,
-	 * but it is probably not worth it because of the cache nature
-	 * of the dcache. 
-	 */
-	dentry_cache = KMEM_CACHE(dentry,
-		SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT|SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_MEM_SPREAD);
-	
+	dentry_cache = kmem_cache_create("dentry_cache", sizeof(struct dentry),
+		0, SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT|SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_MEM_SPREAD,
+		dcache_ctor);
+
 	register_shrinker(&dcache_shrinker);
 
 	/* Hash may have been set up in dcache_init_early */

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