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authorJan Kara2017-02-01 09:21:58 +0100
committerJan Kara2017-04-10 17:37:35 +0200
commit08991e83b7286635167bab40927665a90fb00d81 (patch)
treee82e62c0a92193ff3af83d3d1ea60f0430c5c118 /fs/notify/fsnotify.h
parentfsnotify: Lock object list with connector lock (diff)
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fsnotify: Free fsnotify_mark_connector when there is no mark attached
Currently we free fsnotify_mark_connector structure only when inode / vfsmount is getting freed. This can however impose noticeable memory overhead when marks get attached to inodes only temporarily. So free the connector structure once the last mark is detached from the object. Since notification infrastructure can be working with the connector under the protection of fsnotify_mark_srcu, we have to be careful and free the fsnotify_mark_connector only after SRCU period passes. Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/notify/fsnotify.h')
-rw-r--r--fs/notify/fsnotify.h10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/fsnotify.h b/fs/notify/fsnotify.h
index 510f027bdf0f..72050b75ca8c 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fsnotify.h
+++ b/fs/notify/fsnotify.h
@@ -20,19 +20,19 @@ extern int fsnotify_compare_groups(struct fsnotify_group *a,
/* Find mark belonging to given group in the list of marks */
extern struct fsnotify_mark *fsnotify_find_mark(
- struct fsnotify_mark_connector *conn,
- struct fsnotify_group *group);
+ struct fsnotify_mark_connector __rcu **connp,
+ struct fsnotify_group *group);
/* Destroy all marks connected via given connector */
-extern void fsnotify_destroy_marks(struct fsnotify_mark_connector *conn);
+extern void fsnotify_destroy_marks(struct fsnotify_mark_connector __rcu **connp);
/* run the list of all marks associated with inode and destroy them */
static inline void fsnotify_clear_marks_by_inode(struct inode *inode)
{
- fsnotify_destroy_marks(inode->i_fsnotify_marks);
+ fsnotify_destroy_marks(&inode->i_fsnotify_marks);
}
/* run the list of all marks associated with vfsmount and destroy them */
static inline void fsnotify_clear_marks_by_mount(struct vfsmount *mnt)
{
- fsnotify_destroy_marks(real_mount(mnt)->mnt_fsnotify_marks);
+ fsnotify_destroy_marks(&real_mount(mnt)->mnt_fsnotify_marks);
}
/* prepare for freeing all marks associated with given group */
extern void fsnotify_detach_group_marks(struct fsnotify_group *group);