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Date:	Fri, 5 Dec 2008 13:18:30 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
To:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] shmem: unify regular and tiny shmem

On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Matt Mackall wrote:
> tiny-shmem shares most of its 130 lines of code with shmem and tends
> to break when particular bits of shmem get modified. Unifying saves
> code and makes keeping these two in sync much easier.
> 
> before:
>   14367	    392	     24	  14783	   39bf	mm/shmem.o
>     396      72       8     476	    1dc	mm/tiny-shmem.o
> 
> after:
>   14367	    392	     24	  14783	   39bf	mm/shmem.o
>     412	     72       8     492	    1ec	mm/shmem.o tiny
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>

I agree with where you're going (surrendering your empire to mine!
or perhaps you don't you see it quite that way?), but I think this
isn't quite the patch you meant to send: it shouldn't contain that

> -			&shmem_file_operations);
> +		  &shmem_file_operations);
> +
> +#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
> +	error = ramfs_nommu_expand_for_mapping(inode, size);
> +	if (error)
> +		goto close_file;
> +#endif

hunk in mm/shmem.c, and it should be deleting mm/tiny-shmem.c?

Hugh

> diff -r 8a9f1e9c46e8 -r 3fd7e399e034 init/Kconfig
> --- a/init/Kconfig	Mon Oct 27 17:33:21 2008 -0500
> +++ b/init/Kconfig	Mon Oct 27 17:33:24 2008 -0500
> @@ -830,10 +830,6 @@
>  	boolean
>  	select PLIST
>  
> -config TINY_SHMEM
> -	default !SHMEM
> -	bool
> -
>  config BASE_SMALL
>  	int
>  	default 0 if BASE_FULL
> diff -r 8a9f1e9c46e8 -r 3fd7e399e034 mm/Makefile
> --- a/mm/Makefile	Mon Oct 27 17:33:21 2008 -0500
> +++ b/mm/Makefile	Mon Oct 27 17:33:24 2008 -0500
> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
>  
>  obj-y			:= bootmem.o filemap.o mempool.o oom_kill.o fadvise.o \
>  			   maccess.o page_alloc.o page-writeback.o pdflush.o \
> -			   readahead.o swap.o truncate.o vmscan.o \
> +			   readahead.o swap.o truncate.o vmscan.o shmem.o \
>  			   prio_tree.o util.o mmzone.o vmstat.o backing-dev.o \
>  			   page_isolation.o mm_init.o $(mmu-y)
>  
> @@ -21,9 +21,7 @@
>  obj-$(CONFIG_NUMA) 	+= mempolicy.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM)	+= sparse.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP) += sparse-vmemmap.o
> -obj-$(CONFIG_SHMEM) += shmem.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL) += shmem_acl.o
> -obj-$(CONFIG_TINY_SHMEM) += tiny-shmem.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_SLOB) += slob.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER) += mmu_notifier.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_SLAB) += slab.o
> diff -r 8a9f1e9c46e8 -r 3fd7e399e034 mm/shmem.c
> --- a/mm/shmem.c	Mon Oct 27 17:33:21 2008 -0500
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c	Mon Oct 27 17:33:24 2008 -0500
> @@ -14,31 +14,39 @@
>   * Copyright (c) 2004, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@...l.net>
>   * Copyright (c) 2004 Red Hat, Inc., James Morris <jmorris@...hat.com>
>   *
> + * tiny-shmem:
> + * Copyright (c) 2004, 2008 Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
> + *
>   * This file is released under the GPL.
>   */
>  
> +#include <linux/fs.h>
> +#include <linux/init.h>
> +#include <linux/vfs.h>
> +#include <linux/mount.h>
> +#include <linux/file.h>
> +#include <linux/mm.h>
> +#include <linux/module.h>
> +#include <linux/swap.h>
> +
> +static struct vfsmount *shm_mnt;
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SHMEM
>  /*
>   * This virtual memory filesystem is heavily based on the ramfs. It
>   * extends ramfs by the ability to use swap and honor resource limits
>   * which makes it a completely usable filesystem.
>   */
>  
> -#include <linux/module.h>
> -#include <linux/init.h>
> -#include <linux/fs.h>
>  #include <linux/xattr.h>
>  #include <linux/exportfs.h>
>  #include <linux/generic_acl.h>
> -#include <linux/mm.h>
>  #include <linux/mman.h>
> -#include <linux/file.h>
> -#include <linux/swap.h>
>  #include <linux/pagemap.h>
>  #include <linux/string.h>
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>  #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
>  #include <linux/shmem_fs.h>
> -#include <linux/mount.h>
>  #include <linux/writeback.h>
>  #include <linux/vfs.h>
>  #include <linux/blkdev.h>
> @@ -2486,7 +2494,6 @@
>  	.get_sb		= shmem_get_sb,
>  	.kill_sb	= kill_litter_super,
>  };
> -static struct vfsmount *shm_mnt;
>  
>  static int __init init_tmpfs(void)
>  {
> @@ -2525,7 +2532,51 @@
>  	shm_mnt = ERR_PTR(error);
>  	return error;
>  }
> -module_init(init_tmpfs)
> +
> +#else /* !CONFIG_SHMEM */
> +
> +/*
> + * tiny-shmem: simple shmemfs and tmpfs using ramfs code
> + *
> + * This is intended for small system where the benefits of the full
> + * shmem code (swap-backed and resource-limited) are outweighed by
> + * their complexity. On systems without swap this code should be
> + * effectively equivalent, but much lighter weight.
> + */
> +
> +#include <linux/ramfs.h>
> +
> +static struct file_system_type tmpfs_fs_type = {
> +	.name		= "tmpfs",
> +	.get_sb		= ramfs_get_sb,
> +	.kill_sb	= kill_litter_super,
> +};
> +
> +static int __init init_tmpfs(void)
> +{
> +	BUG_ON(register_filesystem(&tmpfs_fs_type) != 0);
> +
> +	shm_mnt = kern_mount(&tmpfs_fs_type);
> +	BUG_ON(IS_ERR(shm_mnt));
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +int shmem_unuse(swp_entry_t entry, struct page *page)
> +{
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +#define shmem_file_operations ramfs_file_operations
> +#define shmem_vm_ops generic_file_vm_ops
> +#define shmem_get_inode ramfs_get_inode
> +#define shmem_acct_size(a, b) 0
> +#define shmem_unacct_size(a, b) do {} while (0)
> +#define SHMEM_MAX_BYTES LLONG_MAX
> +
> +#endif /* CONFIG_SHMEM */
> +
> +/* common code */
>  
>  /**
>   * shmem_file_setup - get an unlinked file living in tmpfs
> @@ -2569,12 +2620,20 @@
>  	if (!inode)
>  		goto close_file;
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SHMEM
>  	SHMEM_I(inode)->flags = flags & VM_ACCOUNT;
> +#endif
>  	d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
>  	inode->i_size = size;
>  	inode->i_nlink = 0;	/* It is unlinked */
>  	init_file(file, shm_mnt, dentry, FMODE_WRITE | FMODE_READ,
> -			&shmem_file_operations);
> +		  &shmem_file_operations);
> +
> +#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
> +	error = ramfs_nommu_expand_for_mapping(inode, size);
> +	if (error)
> +		goto close_file;
> +#endif
>  	return file;
>  
>  close_file:
> @@ -2606,3 +2665,5 @@
>  	vma->vm_ops = &shmem_vm_ops;
>  	return 0;
>  }
> +
> +module_init(init_tmpfs)
> 
> -- 
> Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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