From: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
To: brauner@kernel.org
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, jack@suse.cz,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] fs: hide dentry_cache behind runtime const machinery
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 16:36:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251105153622.758836-1-mjguzik@gmail.com> (raw)
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
---
fs/dcache.c | 6 ++++--
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index de3e4e9777ea..531835e8637c 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@ __cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SEQLOCK(rename_lock);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(rename_lock);
-static struct kmem_cache *dentry_cache __ro_after_init;
+static struct kmem_cache *__dentry_cache __ro_after_init;
+#define dentry_cache runtime_const_ptr(__dentry_cache)
const struct qstr empty_name = QSTR_INIT("", 0);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(empty_name);
@@ -3216,9 +3217,10 @@ static void __init dcache_init(void)
* but it is probably not worth it because of the cache nature
* of the dcache.
*/
- dentry_cache = KMEM_CACHE_USERCOPY(dentry,
+ __dentry_cache = KMEM_CACHE_USERCOPY(dentry,
SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT|SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_ACCOUNT,
d_shortname.string);
+ runtime_const_init(ptr, __dentry_cache);
/* Hash may have been set up in dcache_init_early */
if (!hashdist)
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index e04d56a5332e..caef183a73bc 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -955,7 +955,8 @@ defined(CONFIG_AUTOFDO_CLANG) || defined(CONFIG_PROPELLER_CLANG)
#define RUNTIME_CONST_VARIABLES \
RUNTIME_CONST(shift, d_hash_shift) \
- RUNTIME_CONST(ptr, dentry_hashtable)
+ RUNTIME_CONST(ptr, dentry_hashtable) \
+ RUNTIME_CONST(ptr, __dentry_cache)
/* Alignment must be consistent with (kunit_suite *) in include/kunit/test.h */
#define KUNIT_TABLE() \
--
2.48.1
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2025-11-05 15:36 Mateusz Guzik [this message]
2025-11-11 12:05 ` [PATCH] fs: hide dentry_cache behind runtime const machinery Christian Brauner
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