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From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
To: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Squashfs: Refactor decompressor interface and code (V3)
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 17:07:33 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131119080733.GV4407@bbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1384406059-28567-2-git-send-email-phillip@squashfs.org.uk>

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 05:14:16AM +0000, Phillip Lougher wrote:
> The decompressor interface and code was written from
> the point of view of single-threaded operation.  In doing
> so it mixed a lot of single-threaded implementation specific
> aspects into the decompressor code and elsewhere which makes it
> difficult to seamlessly support multiple different decompressor
> implementations.
> 
> This patch does the following:
> 
> 1.  It removes compressor_options parsing from the decompressor
>     init() function.  This allows the decompressor init() function
>     to be dynamically called to instantiate multiple decompressors,
>     without the compressor options needing to be read and parsed each
>     time.
> 
> 2.  It moves threading and all sleeping operations out of the
>     decompressors.  In doing so, it makes the decompressors
>     non-blocking wrappers which only deal with interfacing with
>     the decompressor implementation.
> 
> 3. It splits decompressor.[ch] into decompressor generic functions
>    in decompressor.[ch], and moves the single threaded
>    decompressor implementation into decompressor_single.c.
> 
> The result of this patch is Squashfs should now be able to
> support multiple decompressors by adding new decompressor_xxx.c
> files with specialised implementations of the functions in
> decompressor_single.c
> 
> V3:
>   * decompressor_single.c: Remove kfree(comp_opts) in error path
>   * of squashfs_decompressor_create()
>   * Double free of comp_opts found by static analysis, reported by
>   * Dan Carpenter
> 
> Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

-- 
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-19  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-14  5:14 [PATCH 0/4] Squashfs: performance improvement patches (V3) Phillip Lougher
2013-11-14  5:14 ` [PATCH 1/4] Squashfs: Refactor decompressor interface and code (V3) Phillip Lougher
2013-11-19  8:07   ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2013-11-14  5:14 ` [PATCH 2/4] Squashfs: Generalise paging handling in the decompressors (V3) Phillip Lougher
2013-11-19  8:10   ` Minchan Kim
2013-11-14  5:14 ` [PATCH 3/4] Squashfs: Directly decompress into the page cache for file data (V3) Phillip Lougher
2013-11-19  8:17   ` Minchan Kim
2013-11-14  5:14 ` [PATCH 4/4] Squashfs: Check stream is not NULL in decompressor_multi.c Phillip Lougher
2013-11-19  8:18   ` Minchan Kim

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