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| author | Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> | 2017-02-01 09:21:58 +0100 |
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| committer | Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> | 2017-04-10 17:37:35 +0200 |
| commit | 08991e83b7286635167bab40927665a90fb00d81 (patch) | |
| tree | e82e62c0a92193ff3af83d3d1ea60f0430c5c118 /include/linux/fs.h | |
| parent | 04662cab59fc3e8421fd7a0539d304d51d2750a4 (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-08991e83b7286635167bab40927665a90fb00d81.zip op-kernel-dev-08991e83b7286635167bab40927665a90fb00d81.tar.gz | |
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 'include/linux/fs.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 66e5234..c0b6150 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ struct inode { #ifdef CONFIG_FSNOTIFY __u32 i_fsnotify_mask; /* all events this inode cares about */ - struct fsnotify_mark_connector *i_fsnotify_marks; + struct fsnotify_mark_connector __rcu *i_fsnotify_marks; #endif #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION) |
