1. 14 7月, 2012 27 次提交
  2. 02 6月, 2012 11 次提交
  3. 30 5月, 2012 1 次提交
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      brlocks/lglocks: API cleanups · 962830df
      Andi Kleen 提交于
      lglocks and brlocks are currently generated with some complicated macros
      in lglock.h.  But there's no reason to not just use common utility
      functions and put all the data into a common data structure.
      
      In preparation, this patch changes the API to look more like normal
      function calls with pointers, not magic macros.
      
      The patch is rather large because I move over all users in one go to keep
      it bisectable.  This impacts the VFS somewhat in terms of lines changed.
      But no actual behaviour change.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      962830df
  4. 27 5月, 2012 1 次提交
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      word-at-a-time: make the interfaces truly generic · 36126f8f
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      This changes the interfaces in <asm/word-at-a-time.h> to be a bit more
      complicated, but a lot more generic.
      
      In particular, it allows us to really do the operations efficiently on
      both little-endian and big-endian machines, pretty much regardless of
      machine details.  For example, if you can rely on a fast population
      count instruction on your architecture, this will allow you to make your
      optimized <asm/word-at-a-time.h> file with that.
      
      NOTE! The "generic" version in include/asm-generic/word-at-a-time.h is
      not truly generic, it actually only works on big-endian.  Why? Because
      on little-endian the generic algorithms are wasteful, since you can
      inevitably do better. The x86 implementation is an example of that.
      
      (The only truly non-generic part of the asm-generic implementation is
      the "find_zero()" function, and you could make a little-endian version
      of it.  And if the Kbuild infrastructure allowed us to pick a particular
      header file, that would be lovely)
      
      The <asm/word-at-a-time.h> functions are as follows:
      
       - WORD_AT_A_TIME_CONSTANTS: specific constants that the algorithm
         uses.
      
       - has_zero(): take a word, and determine if it has a zero byte in it.
         It gets the word, the pointer to the constant pool, and a pointer to
         an intermediate "data" field it can set.
      
         This is the "quick-and-dirty" zero tester: it's what is run inside
         the hot loops.
      
       - "prep_zero_mask()": take the word, the data that has_zero() produced,
         and the constant pool, and generate an *exact* mask of which byte had
         the first zero.  This is run directly *outside* the loop, and allows
         the "has_zero()" function to answer the "is there a zero byte"
         question without necessarily getting exactly *which* byte is the
         first one to contain a zero.
      
         If you do multiple byte lookups concurrently (eg "hash_name()", which
         looks for both NUL and '/' bytes), after you've done the prep_zero_mask()
         phase, the result of those can be or'ed together to get the "either
         or" case.
      
       - The result from "prep_zero_mask()" can then be fed into "find_zero()"
         (to find the byte offset of the first byte that was zero) or into
         "zero_bytemask()" (to find the bytemask of the bytes preceding the
         zero byte).
      
         The existence of zero_bytemask() is optional, and is not necessary
         for the normal string routines.  But dentry name hashing needs it, so
         if you enable DENTRY_WORD_AT_A_TIME you need to expose it.
      
      This changes the generic strncpy_from_user() function and the dentry
      hashing functions to use these modified word-at-a-time interfaces.  This
      gets us back to the optimized state of the x86 strncpy that we lost in
      the previous commit when moving over to the generic version.
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      36126f8f