Re: [patch] make tmpfs_statfs more user friendly

[Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>]

Christoph Rohland writes:
> The following patch make shmem_statfs report some sensible size
> estimates in the case that the user does not give a size limit.
> 
> This should make it more error prone when used as /tmp
                      ^^^^ less?

> diff -uNr 2.4.1-tmpfs/mm/shmem.c 2.4.1-tmpfs-fstat/mm/shmem.c
> --- 2.4.1-tmpfs/mm/shmem.c	Sun Feb  4 16:08:57 2001
> +++ 2.4.1-tmpfs-fstat/mm/shmem.c	Sun Feb  4 16:09:50 2001
> @@ -696,13 +696,20 @@
>  	buf->f_type = TMPFS_MAGIC;
>  	buf->f_bsize = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
>  	spin_lock (&sb->u.shmem_sb.stat_lock);
> -	if (sb->u.shmem_sb.max_blocks != ULONG_MAX || 
> -	    sb->u.shmem_sb.max_inodes != ULONG_MAX) {
> +	if (sb->u.shmem_sb.max_blocks == ULONG_MAX) {
> +		/*
> +		 * This is only a guestimate and not honoured.
> +		 * We need it to make some programs happy which like to
> +		 * test the free space of a file system.
> +		 */
> +		buf->f_bavail = buf->f_bfree = nr_free_pages() + nr_swap_pages + atomic_read(&buffermem_pages);

Should f_bavail be reduced by freepages.min or freepages.low?

> +		buf->f_blocks = buf->f_bfree + ULONG_MAX - sb->u.shmem_sb.free_blocks;

It's not really clear what you are trying to calculate here...  Since f_blocks
is a long, adding ULONG_MAX == subtracting 1.  Maybe it should just hold
the total amount of VM in the system, (i.e. totalram_pages)?

Cheers, Andreas
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