linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC 1/8] dcache: show count of hash buckets in sysctl fs.dentry-state

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Date:   Fri, 08 May 2020 15:23:14 +0300
From:   Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC 1/8] dcache: show count of hash buckets in sysctl
 fs.dentry-state

Count of buckets is required for estimating average length of hash chains.
Size of hash table depends on memory size and printed once at boot.

Let's expose nr_buckets as sixth number in sysctl fs.dentry-state

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst |   12 ++++++------
 fs/dcache.c                             |   12 ++++++++++--
 include/linux/dcache.h                  |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
index 2a45119e3331..b74df4714ddd 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
@@ -66,12 +66,12 @@ dentry-state
 From linux/include/linux/dcache.h::
 
   struct dentry_stat_t dentry_stat {
-        int nr_dentry;
-        int nr_unused;
-        int age_limit;         /* age in seconds */
-        int want_pages;        /* pages requested by system */
-        int nr_negative;       /* # of unused negative dentries */
-        int dummy;             /* Reserved for future use */
+        long nr_dentry;
+        long nr_unused;
+        long age_limit;         /* age in seconds */
+        long want_pages;        /* pages requested by system */
+        long nr_negative;       /* # of unused negative dentries */
+        long nr_buckets;        /* count of dcache hash buckets */
   };
 
 Dentries are dynamically allocated and deallocated.
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index b280e07e162b..386f97eaf2ff 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -3139,6 +3139,14 @@ static int __init set_dhash_entries(char *str)
 }
 __setup("dhash_entries=", set_dhash_entries);
 
+static void __init dcache_init_hash(void)
+{
+	dentry_stat.nr_buckets = 1l << d_hash_shift;
+
+	/* shift to use higher bits of 32 bit hash value */
+	d_hash_shift = 32 - d_hash_shift;
+}
+
 static void __init dcache_init_early(void)
 {
 	/* If hashes are distributed across NUMA nodes, defer
@@ -3157,7 +3165,7 @@ static void __init dcache_init_early(void)
 					NULL,
 					0,
 					0);
-	d_hash_shift = 32 - d_hash_shift;
+	dcache_init_hash();
 }
 
 static void __init dcache_init(void)
@@ -3185,7 +3193,7 @@ static void __init dcache_init(void)
 					NULL,
 					0,
 					0);
-	d_hash_shift = 32 - d_hash_shift;
+	dcache_init_hash();
 }
 
 /* SLAB cache for __getname() consumers */
diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
index c1488cc84fd9..082b55068e4d 100644
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ struct dentry_stat_t {
 	long age_limit;		/* age in seconds */
 	long want_pages;	/* pages requested by system */
 	long nr_negative;	/* # of unused negative dentries */
-	long dummy;		/* Reserved for future use */
+	long nr_buckets;	/* count of dcache hash buckets */
 };
 extern struct dentry_stat_t dentry_stat;