From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] xfs: cleanup _xfs_buf_get_pages
Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 07:23:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210520052335.GB21165@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210519224028.GD664593@dread.disaster.area>
On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 08:40:28AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> This will not apply (and break) the bulk alloc patch I sent out - we
> have to ensure that the b_pages array is always zeroed before we
> call the bulk alloc function, hence I moved the memset() in this
> function to be unconditional. I almost cleaned up this function in
> that patchset....
The buffer is freshly allocated here using kmem_cache_zalloc, so
b_pages can't be set, b_page_array is already zeroed from
kmem_cache_zalloc, and the separate b_pages allocation is swithced
to use kmem_zalloc. I thought the commit log covers this, but maybe
I need to improve it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-20 5:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-19 19:08 RFC: buffer cache backing page allocation cleanup Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-19 19:08 ` [PATCH 01/11] xfs: cleanup error handling in xfs_buf_get_map Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-20 23:43 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-05-19 19:08 ` [PATCH 02/11] xfs: split xfs_buf_allocate_memory Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-19 22:36 ` Dave Chinner
2021-05-19 19:08 ` [PATCH 03/11] xfs: remove ->b_offset handling for page backed buffers Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-19 22:27 ` Dave Chinner
2021-05-19 19:08 ` [PATCH 04/11] xfs: cleanup _xfs_buf_get_pages Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-19 22:40 ` Dave Chinner
2021-05-20 5:23 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-05-25 22:43 ` Dave Chinner
2021-05-19 19:08 ` [PATCH 05/11] xfs: remove the xb_page_found stat counter in xfs_buf_alloc_pages Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-19 22:55 ` Dave Chinner
2021-05-19 19:08 ` [PATCH 06/11] xfs: remove the size and nbytes variables " Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-19 22:56 ` Dave Chinner
2021-05-19 19:08 ` [PATCH 07/11] xfs: simplify the b_page_count calculation Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-19 19:08 ` [PATCH 08/11] xfs: centralize page allocation and freeing for buffers Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-19 23:22 ` Dave Chinner
2021-05-20 5:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-25 23:59 ` Dave Chinner
2021-05-19 19:08 ` [PATCH 09/11] xfs: lift the buffer zeroing logic into xfs_buf_alloc_pages Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-19 19:08 ` [PATCH 10/11] xfs: retry allocations from xfs_buf_get_uncached as well Christoph Hellwig
2021-05-19 19:09 ` [PATCH 11/11] xfs: use alloc_pages_bulk_array() for buffers Christoph Hellwig
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