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[PATCH] change buffer_head.b_size to size_t

Increase the size of the buffer_head b_size field (only) for 64 bit platforms. Update some old and moldy comments in and around the structure as well. The b_size increase allows us to perform larger mappings and allocations for large I/O requests from userspace, which tie in with other changes allowing the get_block_t() interface to map multiple blocks at once.

Badari Pulavarty committed 20 years ago

Commit 205f87f1 parent d48589b4 files · +17 −12Browse files

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4 files
  1. fs/buffer.c +4 −2
  2. fs/ocfs2/journal.c +1 −1
  3. fs/reiserfs/prints.c +1 −1
  4. include/linux/buffer_head.h +11 −8
fs/buffer.c+4−2
@@ -426,8 +426,10 @@ __find_get_block_slow(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block) · 425 unmodified lines
426426 if (all_mapped) {
427427 printk("__find_get_block_slow() failed. "
428428 "block=%llu, b_blocknr=%llu\n",
429− (unsigned long long)block, (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr);
430− printk("b_state=0x%08lx, b_size=%u\n", bh->b_state, bh->b_size);
429+ (unsigned long long)block,
430+ (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr);
431+ printk("b_state=0x%08lx, b_size=%zu\n",
432+ bh->b_state, bh->b_size);
431433 printk("device blocksize: %d\n", 1 << bd_inode->i_blkbits);
432434 }
433435 out_unlock:
fs/ocfs2/journal.c+1−1
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ int ocfs2_journal_access(struct ocfs2_journal_handle *handle, · 376 unmodified lines
377377 BUG_ON(!bh);
378378 BUG_ON(!(handle->flags & OCFS2_HANDLE_STARTED));
379379
380− mlog_entry("bh->b_blocknr=%llu, type=%d (\"%s\"), bh->b_size = %hu\n",
380+ mlog_entry("bh->b_blocknr=%llu, type=%d (\"%s\"), bh->b_size = %zu\n",
381381 (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr, type,
382382 (type == OCFS2_JOURNAL_ACCESS_CREATE) ?
383383 "OCFS2_JOURNAL_ACCESS_CREATE" :
fs/reiserfs/prints.c+1−1
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ static void sprintf_buffer_head(char *buf, struct buffer_head *bh) · 142 unmodified lines
143143 char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
144144
145145 sprintf(buf,
146− "dev %s, size %d, blocknr %llu, count %d, state 0x%lx, page %p, (%s, %s, %s)",
146+ "dev %s, size %zd, blocknr %llu, count %d, state 0x%lx, page %p, (%s, %s, %s)",
147147 bdevname(bh->b_bdev, b), bh->b_size,
148148 (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr, atomic_read(&(bh->b_count)),
149149 bh->b_state, bh->b_page,
include/linux/buffer_head.h+11−8
@@ -46,25 +46,28 @@ struct address_space; · 45 unmodified lines
4646 typedef void (bh_end_io_t)(struct buffer_head *bh, int uptodate);
4747
4848 /*
49− * Keep related fields in common cachelines. The most commonly accessed
50− * field (b_state) goes at the start so the compiler does not generate
51− * indexed addressing for it.
49+ * Historically, a buffer_head was used to map a single block
50+ * within a page, and of course as the unit of I/O through the
51+ * filesystem and block layers. Nowadays the basic I/O unit
52+ * is the bio, and buffer_heads are used for extracting block
53+ * mappings (via a get_block_t call), for tracking state within
54+ * a page (via a page_mapping) and for wrapping bio submission
55+ * for backward compatibility reasons (e.g. submit_bh).
5256 */
5357 struct buffer_head {
54− /* First cache line: */
5558 unsigned long b_state; /* buffer state bitmap (see above) */
5659 struct buffer_head *b_this_page;/* circular list of page's buffers */
5760 struct page *b_page; /* the page this bh is mapped to */
58− atomic_t b_count; /* users using this block */
59− u32 b_size; /* block size */
6061
61− sector_t b_blocknr; /* block number */
62− char *b_data; /* pointer to data block */
62+ sector_t b_blocknr; /* start block number */
63+ size_t b_size; /* size of mapping */
64+ char *b_data; /* pointer to data within the page */
6365
6466 struct block_device *b_bdev;
6567 bh_end_io_t *b_end_io; /* I/O completion */
6668 void *b_private; /* reserved for b_end_io */
6769 struct list_head b_assoc_buffers; /* associated with another mapping */
70+ atomic_t b_count; /* users using this buffer_head */
6871 };
6972
7073 /*

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