linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/6] fs: icache RCU free inodes

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Date:	Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:27:39 +1100
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/6] fs: icache RCU free inodes

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 03:47:21PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > It is in the inode_init_once pile, so yes it has to be returned
> > to the allocator initialized.
> 
> The kmem_cache_create()s in the file systems don't pass constructors
> today. So I don't see how this could work reliably.

They do, grep filesystems for inode_init_once


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