tree 7f437ed24761f467b61c0a401fc8d6a6ca7fee3a
parent 27cf10e133c393f39399137b028c7b24d64ca06e
author Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> 1367277676 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1367285321 -0700

idr: introduce idr_alloc_cyclic()

As Tejun points out, there are several users of the IDR facility that
attempt to use it in a cyclic fashion.  These users are likely to see
-ENOSPC errors after the counter wraps one or more times however.

This patchset adds a new idr_alloc_cyclic routine and converts several
of these users to it.  Many of these users are in obscure parts of the
kernel, and I don't have a good way to test some of them.  The change is
pretty straightforward though, so hopefully it won't be an issue.

There is one other cyclic user of idr_alloc that I didn't touch in
ipc/util.c.  That one is doing some strange stuff that I didn't quite
understand, but it looks like it should probably be converted later
somehow.

This patch:

Thus spake Tejun Heo:

    Ooh, BTW, the cyclic allocation is broken.  It's prone to -ENOSPC
    after the first wraparound.  There are several cyclic users in the
    kernel and I think it probably would be best to implement cyclic
    support in idr.

This patch does that by adding new idr_alloc_cyclic function that such
users in the kernel can use.  With this, there's no need for a caller to
keep track of the last value used as that's now tracked internally.  This
should prevent the ENOSPC problems that can hit when the "last allocated"
counter exceeds INT_MAX.

Later patches will convert existing cyclic users to the new interface.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Cc: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Cc: John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Cc: Robert Love <rlove@rlove.org>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Cc: Tom Tucker <tom@opengridcomputing.com>
Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>