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Message-ID: <20100518221553.GA9128@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 18 May 2010 15:15:53 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] fs: remove all rcu head initializations, except on_stack
 initializations

Hello!

Would you like to carry this patch, or should I push it up -tip?
If I don't hear otherwise from you, I will push it up -tip.
The INIT_RCU_HEAD() primitive is going away in favor of debugobjects.

							Thanx, Paul

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fs: remove all rcu head initializations, except on_stack initializations

Remove all rcu head inits. We don't care about the RCU head state before passing
it to call_rcu() anyway. Only leave the "on_stack" variants so debugobjects can
keep track of objects on stack.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andries Brouwer <aeb@....nl>

diff --git a/fs/file.c b/fs/file.c
index 34bb7f7..cccaead 100644
--- a/fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/file.c
@@ -178,7 +178,6 @@ static struct fdtable * alloc_fdtable(unsigned int nr)
 	fdt->open_fds = (fd_set *)data;
 	data += nr / BITS_PER_BYTE;
 	fdt->close_on_exec = (fd_set *)data;
-	INIT_RCU_HEAD(&fdt->rcu);
 	fdt->next = NULL;
 
 	return fdt;
@@ -312,7 +311,6 @@ struct files_struct *dup_fd(struct files_struct *oldf, int *errorp)
 	new_fdt->close_on_exec = (fd_set *)&newf->close_on_exec_init;
 	new_fdt->open_fds = (fd_set *)&newf->open_fds_init;
 	new_fdt->fd = &newf->fd_array[0];
-	INIT_RCU_HEAD(&new_fdt->rcu);
 	new_fdt->next = NULL;
 
 	spin_lock(&oldf->file_lock);
@@ -430,7 +428,6 @@ struct files_struct init_files = {
 		.fd		= &init_files.fd_array[0],
 		.close_on_exec	= (fd_set *)&init_files.close_on_exec_init,
 		.open_fds	= (fd_set *)&init_files.open_fds_init,
-		.rcu		= RCU_HEAD_INIT,
 	},
 	.file_lock	= __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(init_task.file_lock),
 };
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 4b37f7c..ea38c65 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -75,12 +75,33 @@ static inline bool bdi_work_on_stack(struct bdi_work *work)
 	return test_bit(WS_ONSTACK_B, &work->state);
 }
 
-static inline void bdi_work_init(struct bdi_work *work,
-				 struct wb_writeback_args *args)
+static inline void __bdi_work_init(struct bdi_work *work,
+				   struct wb_writeback_args *args,
+				   int on_stack)
 {
-	INIT_RCU_HEAD(&work->rcu_head);
 	work->args = *args;
 	work->state = WS_USED;
+	if (on_stack) {
+		work->state |= WS_ONSTACK;
+		init_rcu_head_on_stack(&work->rcu_head);
+	}
+}
+
+static inline void bdi_work_init(struct bdi_work *work,
+				 struct wb_writeback_args *args)
+{
+	__bdi_work_init(work, args, false);
+}
+
+static inline void bdi_work_init_on_stack(struct bdi_work *work,
+					  struct wb_writeback_args *args)
+{
+	__bdi_work_init(work, args, true);
+}
+
+static inline void bdi_destroy_work_on_stack(struct bdi_work *work)
+{
+	destroy_rcu_head_on_stack(&work->rcu_head);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -233,11 +254,11 @@ static void bdi_sync_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
 	};
 	struct bdi_work work;
 
-	bdi_work_init(&work, &args);
-	work.state |= WS_ONSTACK;
+	bdi_work_init_on_stack(&work, &args);
 
 	bdi_queue_work(bdi, &work);
 	bdi_wait_on_work_clear(&work);
+	bdi_destroy_work_on_stack(&work);
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/fs/partitions/check.c b/fs/partitions/check.c
index e238ab2..7444e6f 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/check.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/check.c
@@ -456,7 +456,6 @@ struct hd_struct *add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int partno,
 	}
 
 	/* everything is up and running, commence */
-	INIT_RCU_HEAD(&p->rcu_head);
 	rcu_assign_pointer(ptbl->part[partno], p);
 
 	/* suppress uevent if the disk supresses it */
--
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