filp_cachep can be static in fs/file_table.c

Instead of creating the "filp" kmem_cache in vfs_caches_init(),
we can do it a litle be later in files_init(), so that filp_cachep
is static to fs/file_table.c

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index bdb3f50..e88c23b 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -2314,9 +2314,6 @@ static void __init dcache_init(void)
 /* SLAB cache for __getname() consumers */
 struct kmem_cache *names_cachep __read_mostly;
 
-/* SLAB cache for file structures */
-struct kmem_cache *filp_cachep __read_mostly;
-
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_genocide);
 
 void __init vfs_caches_init_early(void)
@@ -2338,9 +2335,6 @@ void __init vfs_caches_init(unsigned long mempages)
        names_cachep = kmem_cache_create("names_cache", PATH_MAX, 0,
                        SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
 
-       filp_cachep = kmem_cache_create("filp", sizeof(struct file), 0,
-                       SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
-
        dcache_init();
        inode_init();
        files_init(mempages);

diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index 0fbcacc..bbeeac6 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/file_table.c
+++ b/fs/file_table.c
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ struct files_stat_struct files_stat = {
 /* public. Not pretty! */
 __cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SPINLOCK(files_lock);
 
+/* SLAB cache for file structures */
+static struct kmem_cache *filp_cachep __read_mostly;
+
 static struct percpu_counter nr_files __cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
 
 static inline void file_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
@@ -397,7 +400,12 @@ too_bad:
 void __init files_init(unsigned long mempages)
 { 
        int n; 
-       /* One file with associated inode and dcache is very roughly 1K. 
+
+       filp_cachep = kmem_cache_create("filp", sizeof(struct file), 0,
+                       SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
+
+       /*
+        * One file with associated inode and dcache is very roughly 1K.
         * Per default don't use more than 10% of our memory for files. 
         */ 
 

diff --git a/include/linux/fdtable.h b/include/linux/fdtable.h
index 4aab6f1..09d6c5b 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/fdtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/fdtable.h
@@ -57,8 +57,6 @@ struct files_struct {
 
 #define files_fdtable(files) (rcu_dereference((files)->fdt))
 
-extern struct kmem_cache *filp_cachep;
-
 struct file_operations;
 struct vfsmount;
 struct dentry;