- bufferhead-revert-constructor-removal.patch removed from -mm tree

[akpm@linux-foundation.org]

The patch titled
     bufferhead: revert constructor removal
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     bufferhead-revert-constructor-removal.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/

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Subject: bufferhead: revert constructor removal
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

The constructor for buffer_head slabs was removed recently.  We need the
constructor back in slab defrag in order to insure that slab objects always
have a definite state even before we allocated them.

I think we mistakenly merged the removal of the constuctor into a cleanup
patch.  You (ie: akpm) had a test that showed that the removal of the
constructor led to a small regression.  The prior state makes things easier
for slab defrag.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/buffer.c |   18 +++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/buffer.c~bufferhead-revert-constructor-removal fs/buffer.c
--- a/fs/buffer.c~bufferhead-revert-constructor-removal
+++ a/fs/buffer.c
@@ -3153,7 +3153,7 @@ static void recalc_bh_state(void)
 	
 struct buffer_head *alloc_buffer_head(gfp_t gfp_flags)
 {
-	struct buffer_head *ret = kmem_cache_zalloc(bh_cachep,
+	struct buffer_head *ret = kmem_cache_alloc(bh_cachep,
 				set_migrateflags(gfp_flags, __GFP_RECLAIMABLE));
 	if (ret) {
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ret->b_assoc_buffers);
@@ -3241,12 +3241,24 @@ int bh_submit_read(struct buffer_head *b
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(bh_submit_read);
 
+static void
+init_buffer_head(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *data)
+{
+	struct buffer_head *bh = data;
+
+	memset(bh, 0, sizeof(*bh));
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bh->b_assoc_buffers);
+}
+
 void __init buffer_init(void)
 {
 	int nrpages;
 
-	bh_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(buffer_head,
-			SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT|SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_MEM_SPREAD);
+	bh_cachep = kmem_cache_create("buffer_head",
+			sizeof(struct buffer_head), 0,
+				(SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT|SLAB_PANIC|
+				SLAB_MEM_SPREAD),
+				init_buffer_head);
 
 	/*
 	 * Limit the bh occupancy to 10% of ZONE_NORMAL
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from clameter@sgi.com are

origin.patch
gregkh-driver-kset-move-sys-slab-to-sys-kernel-slab-slabinfo-fallback-from-sys-kernel-slab-to-sys-slab.patch
git-unionfs.patch
git-slub.patch
percpu-__percpu_alloc_mask-can-dynamically-size-percpu_data.patch
memcontrol-move-oom-task-exclusion-to-tasklist.patch
oom-add-sysctl-to-enable-task-memory-dump.patch
add-cmpxchg_local-to-asm-generic-for-per-cpu-atomic-operations.patch
add-cmpxchg_local-cmpxchg64-and-cmpxchg64_local-to-ia64.patch
dentries-extract-common-code-to-remove-dentry-from-lru.patch
dentries-extract-common-code-to-remove-dentry-from-lru-fix.patch
modules-handle-symbols-that-have-a-zero-value.patch
modules-include-sectionsh-to-avoid-defining-linker-variables.patch
reiser4.patch
reiser4-portion-of-zero_user-cleanup-patch.patch
page-owner-tracking-leak-detector.patch