kernel-ark/include/linux/file.h
Dipankar Sarma ab2af1f500 [PATCH] files: files struct with RCU
Patch to eliminate struct files_struct.file_lock spinlock on the reader side
and use rcu refcounting rcuref_xxx api for the f_count refcounter.  The
updates to the fdtable are done by allocating a new fdtable structure and
setting files->fdt to point to the new structure.  The fdtable structure is
protected by RCU thereby allowing lock-free lookup.  For fd arrays/sets that
are vmalloced, we use keventd to free them since RCU callbacks can't sleep.  A
global list of fdtable to be freed is not scalable, so we use a per-cpu list.
If keventd is already handling the current cpu's work, we use a timer to defer
queueing of that work.

Since the last publication, this patch has been re-written to avoid using
explicit memory barriers and use rcu_assign_pointer(), rcu_dereference()
premitives instead.  This required that the fd information is kept in a
separate structure (fdtable) and updated atomically.

Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:55 -07:00

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/*
* Wrapper functions for accessing the file_struct fd array.
*/
#ifndef __LINUX_FILE_H
#define __LINUX_FILE_H
#include <asm/atomic.h>
#include <linux/posix_types.h>
#include <linux/compiler.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
/*
* The default fd array needs to be at least BITS_PER_LONG,
* as this is the granularity returned by copy_fdset().
*/
#define NR_OPEN_DEFAULT BITS_PER_LONG
struct fdtable {
unsigned int max_fds;
int max_fdset;
int next_fd;
struct file ** fd; /* current fd array */
fd_set *close_on_exec;
fd_set *open_fds;
struct rcu_head rcu;
struct files_struct *free_files;
struct fdtable *next;
};
/*
* Open file table structure
*/
struct files_struct {
atomic_t count;
spinlock_t file_lock; /* Protects all the below members. Nests inside tsk->alloc_lock */
struct fdtable *fdt;
struct fdtable fdtab;
fd_set close_on_exec_init;
fd_set open_fds_init;
struct file * fd_array[NR_OPEN_DEFAULT];
};
#define files_fdtable(files) (rcu_dereference((files)->fdt))
extern void FASTCALL(__fput(struct file *));
extern void FASTCALL(fput(struct file *));
static inline void fput_light(struct file *file, int fput_needed)
{
if (unlikely(fput_needed))
fput(file);
}
extern struct file * FASTCALL(fget(unsigned int fd));
extern struct file * FASTCALL(fget_light(unsigned int fd, int *fput_needed));
extern void FASTCALL(set_close_on_exec(unsigned int fd, int flag));
extern void put_filp(struct file *);
extern int get_unused_fd(void);
extern void FASTCALL(put_unused_fd(unsigned int fd));
struct kmem_cache_s;
extern void filp_ctor(void * objp, struct kmem_cache_s *cachep, unsigned long cflags);
extern void filp_dtor(void * objp, struct kmem_cache_s *cachep, unsigned long dflags);
extern struct file ** alloc_fd_array(int);
extern void free_fd_array(struct file **, int);
extern fd_set *alloc_fdset(int);
extern void free_fdset(fd_set *, int);
extern int expand_files(struct files_struct *, int nr);
extern void free_fdtable(struct fdtable *fdt);
extern void __init files_defer_init(void);
static inline struct file * fcheck_files(struct files_struct *files, unsigned int fd)
{
struct file * file = NULL;
struct fdtable *fdt = files_fdtable(files);
if (fd < fdt->max_fds)
file = rcu_dereference(fdt->fd[fd]);
return file;
}
/*
* Check whether the specified fd has an open file.
*/
#define fcheck(fd) fcheck_files(current->files, fd)
extern void FASTCALL(fd_install(unsigned int fd, struct file * file));
struct task_struct;
struct files_struct *get_files_struct(struct task_struct *);
void FASTCALL(put_files_struct(struct files_struct *fs));
#endif /* __LINUX_FILE_H */