Re: [PATCH] zonefs: Simplify the allocation of slab caches in zonefs_init_inodecache

[Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>]

On 2/5/24 17:10, Kunwu Chan wrote:
> Use the new KMEM_CACHE() macro instead of direct kmem_cache_create
> to simplify the creation of SLAB caches.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <chentao@kylinos.cn>
> ---
>  fs/zonefs/super.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/zonefs/super.c b/fs/zonefs/super.c
> index 93971742613a..9b578e7007e9 100644
> --- a/fs/zonefs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/zonefs/super.c
> @@ -1387,10 +1387,8 @@ static struct file_system_type zonefs_type = {
>  
>  static int __init zonefs_init_inodecache(void)
>  {
> -	zonefs_inode_cachep = kmem_cache_create("zonefs_inode_cache",
> -			sizeof(struct zonefs_inode_info), 0,
> -			(SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_MEM_SPREAD | SLAB_ACCOUNT),
> -			NULL);
> +	zonefs_inode_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(zonefs_inode_info,
> +			SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_MEM_SPREAD | SLAB_ACCOUNT);
>  	if (zonefs_inode_cachep == NULL)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  	return 0;

I do not really see a meaningful simplification here. Using kmem_cache_create()
directly is not *that* complicated... Also, this changes the name of the cache
from "zonefs_inode_cache" to "zonefs_inode_info".

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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research