linux-kernel - [PATCH 57/71] ramfs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Sun, 20 Mar 2016 21:41:04 +0300
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 57/71] ramfs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros

PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time ago
with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page cache with
bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.

This promise never materialized. And unlikely will.

We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to
PAGE_SIZE. And it's constant source of confusion on whether PAGE_CACHE_*
or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case, especially on the
border between fs and mm.

Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much
breakage to be doable.

Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special. They are not.

The changes are pretty straight-forward:

 - <foo> << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> <foo>;

 - PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -> PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN};

 - page_cache_get() -> get_page();

 - page_cache_release() -> put_page();

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
---
 fs/ramfs/inode.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ramfs/inode.c b/fs/ramfs/inode.c
index 38981b037524..1ab6e6c2e60e 100644
--- a/fs/ramfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ramfs/inode.c
@@ -223,8 +223,8 @@ int ramfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 		return err;

 	sb->s_maxbytes		= MAX_LFS_FILESIZE;
-	sb->s_blocksize		= PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
-	sb->s_blocksize_bits	= PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
+	sb->s_blocksize		= PAGE_SIZE;
+	sb->s_blocksize_bits	= PAGE_SHIFT;
 	sb->s_magic		= RAMFS_MAGIC;
 	sb->s_op		= &ramfs_ops;
 	sb->s_time_gran		= 1;
-- 
2.7.0