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2009-10-16dm snapshot: use unsigned integer chunk sizeMikulas Patocka1-2/+2
Use unsigned integer chunk size. Maximum chunk size is 512kB, there won't ever be need to use 4GB chunk size, so the number can be 32-bit. This fixes compiler failure on 32-bit systems with large block devices. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-10-16dm snapshot: lock snapshot while supplying statusMikulas Patocka1-0/+4
This patch locks the snapshot when returning status. It fixes a race when it could return an invalid number of free chunks if someone was simultaneously modifying it. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-10-16dm snapshot: require non zero chunk size by end of ctrMikulas Patocka1-0/+5
If we are creating snapshot with memory-stored exception store, fail if the user didn't specify chunk size. Zero chunk size would probably crash a lot of places in the rest of snapshot code. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-10-16dm snapshot: free exception store on init failureJonathan Brassow1-1/+4
While initializing the snapshot module, if we fail to register the snapshot target then we must back-out the exception store module initialization. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-10-16dm snapshot: sort by chunk size to fix raceMikulas Patocka1-1/+6
Avoid a race causing corruption when snapshots of the same origin have different chunk sizes by sorting the internal list of snapshots by chunk size, largest first. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=182659 For example, let's have two snapshots with different chunk sizes. The first snapshot (1) has small chunk size and the second snapshot (2) has large chunk size. Let's have chunks A, B, C in these snapshots: snapshot1: ====A==== ====B==== snapshot2: ==========C========== (Chunk size is a power of 2. Chunks are aligned.) A write to the origin at a position within A and C comes along. It triggers reallocation of A, then reallocation of C and links them together using A as the 'primary' exception. Then another write to the origin comes along at a position within B and C. It creates pending exception for B. C already has a reallocation in progress and it already has a primary exception (A), so nothing is done to it: B and C are not linked. If the reallocation of B finishes before the reallocation of C, because there is no link with the pending exception for C it does not know to wait for it and, the second write is dispatched to the origin and causes data corruption in the chunk C in snapshot2. To avoid this situation, we maintain snapshots sorted in descending order of chunk size. This leads to a guaranteed ordering on the links between the pending exceptions and avoids the problem explained above - both A and B now get linked to C. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-09-04dm snapshot: implement iterate devicesMike Snitzer1-2/+21
Implement the .iterate_devices for the origin and snapshot targets. dm-snapshot's lack of .iterate_devices resulted in the inability to properly establish queue_limits for both targets. With 4K sector drives: an unfortunate side-effect of not establishing proper limits in either targets' DM device was that IO to the devices would fail even though both had been created without error. Commit af4874e03ed82f050d5872d8c39ce64bf16b5c38 ("dm target:s introduce iterate devices fn") in 2.6.31-rc1 should have implemented .iterate_devices for dm-snap.c's origin and snapshot targets. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-06-22dm snapshot: support barriersMikulas Patocka1-0/+11
Flush support for dm-snapshot target. This patch just forwards the flush request to either the origin or the snapshot device. (It doesn't flush exception store metadata.) Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-04-15block: move bio list helpers into bio.hChristoph Hellwig1-1/+0
It's used by DM and MD and generally useful, so move the bio list helpers into bio.h. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-02dm snapshot: move status to exception storeJonathan Brassow1-6/+2
Let the exception store types print out their status through the new API, rather than having the snapshot code do it. Adjust the buffer position to allow for the preceding DMEMIT in the arguments to type->status(). Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-04-02dm snapshot: move ctr parsing to exception storeJonathan Brassow1-112/+35
First step of having the exception stores parse their own arguments - generalizing the interface. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-04-02dm snapshot: use DMEMIT macro for statusJonathan Brassow1-9/+10
Use DMEMIT in place of snprintf. This makes it easier later when other modules are helping to populate our status output. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-04-02dm snapshot: remove dm_snap headerJonathan Brassow1-1/+71
Move some of the last bits from dm-snap.h into dm-snap.c where they belong and remove dm-snap.h. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-04-02dm snapshot: remove dm_snap header useJonathan Brassow1-9/+9
Move useful functions out of dm-snap.h and stop using dm-snap.h. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-04-02dm exception store: move cow pointerJonathan Brassow1-13/+17
Move COW device from snapshot to exception store. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-04-02dm exception store: move chunk_fieldsJonathan Brassow1-21/+26
Move chunk fields from snapshot to exception store. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-04-02dm exception store: move dm_target pointerJonathan Brassow1-4/+3
Move target pointer from snapshot to exception store. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-04-02dm exception store: introduce registryJonathan Brassow1-23/+18
Move exception stores into a registry. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-04-02dm exception store: separate type from instanceJonathan Brassow1-10/+10
Introduce struct dm_exception_store_type. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-04-02dm snapshot: avoid having two exceptions for the same chunkMikulas Patocka1-0/+13
We need to check if the exception was completed after dropping the lock. After regaining the lock, __find_pending_exception checks if the exception was already placed into &s->pending hash. But we don't check if the exception was already completed and placed into &s->complete hash. If the process waiting in alloc_pending_exception was delayed at this point because of a scheduling latency and the exception was meanwhile completed, we'd miss that and allocate another pending exception for already completed chunk. It would lead to a situation where two records for the same chunk exist and potential data corruption because multiple snapshot I/Os to the affected chunk could be redirected to different locations in the snapshot. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-04-02dm snapshot: avoid dropping lock in __find_pending_exceptionMikulas Patocka1-18/+24
It is uncommon and bug-prone to drop a lock in a function that is called with the lock held, so this is moved to the caller. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-04-02dm snapshot: refactor __find_pending_exceptionMikulas Patocka1-24/+28
Move looking-up of a pending exception from __find_pending_exception to another function. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-01-06dm snapshot: extend exception store functionsJonathan Brassow1-2/+7
Supply dm_add_exception as a callback to the read_metadata function. Add a status function ready for a later patch and name the functions consistently. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-01-06dm snapshot: split out exception store implementationsAlasdair G Kergon1-6/+14
Move the existing snapshot exception store implementations out into separate files. Later patches will place these behind a new interface in preparation for alternative implementations. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-01-06dm snapshot: separate out exception store interfaceJonathan Brassow1-0/+1
Pull structures that bridge the gap between snapshot and exception store out of dm-snap.h and put them in a new .h file - dm-exception-store.h. This file will define the API for new exception stores. Ultimately, dm-snap.h is unnecessary, since only dm-snap.c should be using it. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-01-06dm: consolidate target deregistration error handlingMikulas Patocka1-9/+2
Change dm_unregister_target to return void and use BUG() for error reporting. dm_unregister_target can only fail because of programming bug in the target driver. It can't fail because of user's behavior or disk errors. This patch changes unregister_target to return void and use BUG if someone tries to unregister non-registered target or unregister target that is in use. This patch removes code duplication (testing of error codes in all dm targets) and reports bugs in just one place, in dm_unregister_target. In some target drivers, these return codes were ignored, which could lead to a situation where bugs could be missed. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-01-06dm snapshot: change yield to msleepMikulas Patocka1-3/+4
Change yield() to msleep(1). If the thread had realtime priority, yield() doesn't really yield, so the yielding process would loop indefinitely and cause machine lockup. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-10-30dm snapshot: wait for chunks in destructorMikulas Patocka1-1/+15
If there are several snapshots sharing an origin and one is removed while the origin is being written to, the snapshot's mempool may get deleted while elements are still referenced. Prior to dm-snapshot-use-per-device-mempools.patch the pending exceptions may still have been referenced after the snapshot was destroyed, but this was not a problem because the shared mempool was still there. This patch fixes the problem by tracking the number of mempool elements in use. The scenario: - You have an origin and two snapshots 1 and 2. - Someone writes to the origin. - It creates two exceptions in the snapshots, snapshot 1 will be primary exception, snapshot 2's pending_exception->primary_pe will point to the exception in snapshot 1. - The exceptions are being relocated, relocation of exception 1 finishes (but it's pending_exception is still allocated, because it is referenced by an exception from snapshot 2) - The user lvremoves snapshot 1 --- it calls just suspend (does nothing) and destructor. md->pending is zero (there is no I/O submitted to the snapshot by md layer), so it won't help us. - The destructor waits for kcopyd jobs to finish on snapshot 1 --- but there are none. - The destructor on snapshot 1 cleans up everything. - The relocation of exception on snapshot 2 finishes, it drops reference on primary_pe. This frees its primary_pe pointer. Primary_pe points to pending exception created for snapshot 1. So it frees memory into non-existing mempool. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-10-30dm snapshot: fix register_snapshot deadlockMikulas Patocka1-7/+9
register_snapshot() performs a GFP_KERNEL allocation while holding _origins_lock for write, but that could write out dirty pages onto a device that attempts to acquire _origins_lock for read, resulting in deadlock. So move the allocation up before taking the lock. This path is not performance-critical, so it doesn't matter that we allocate memory and free it if we find that we won't need it. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-10-21dm snapshot: drop unused last_percentMikulas Patocka1-1/+0
The last_percent field is unused - remove it. (It dates from when events were triggered as each X% filled up.) Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-10-21dm snapshot: fix primary_pe raceMikulas Patocka1-7/+3
Fix a race condition with primary_pe ref_count handling. put_pending_exception runs under dm_snapshot->lock, it does atomic_dec_and_test on primary_pe->ref_count, and later does atomic_read primary_pe->ref_count. __origin_write does atomic_dec_and_test on primary_pe->ref_count without holding dm_snapshot->lock. This opens the following race condition: Assume two CPUs, CPU1 is executing put_pending_exception (and holding dm_snapshot->lock). CPU2 is executing __origin_write in parallel. primary_pe->ref_count == 2. CPU1: if (primary_pe && atomic_dec_and_test(&primary_pe->ref_count)) origin_bios = bio_list_get(&primary_pe->origin_bios); ... decrements primary_pe->ref_count to 1. Doesn't load origin_bios CPU2: if (first && atomic_dec_and_test(&primary_pe->ref_count)) { flush_bios(bio_list_get(&primary_pe->origin_bios)); free_pending_exception(primary_pe); /* If we got here, pe_queue is necessarily empty. */ return r; } ... decrements primary_pe->ref_count to 0, submits pending bios, frees primary_pe. CPU1: if (!primary_pe || primary_pe != pe) free_pending_exception(pe); ... this has no effect. if (primary_pe && !atomic_read(&primary_pe->ref_count)) free_pending_exception(primary_pe); ... sees ref_count == 0 (written by CPU 2), does double free !! This bug can happen only if someone is simultaneously writing to both the origin and the snapshot. If someone is writing only to the origin, __origin_write will submit kcopyd request after it decrements primary_pe->ref_count (so it can't happen that the finished copy races with primary_pe->ref_count decrementation). If someone is writing only to the snapshot, __origin_write isn't invoked at all and the race can't happen. The race happens when someone writes to the snapshot --- this creates pending_exception with primary_pe == NULL and starts copying. Then, someone writes to the same chunk in the snapshot, and __origin_write races with termination of already submitted request in pending_complete (that calls put_pending_exception). This race may be reason for bugs: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11636 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465825 The patch fixes the code to make sure that: 1. If atomic_dec_and_test(&primary_pe->ref_count) returns false, the process must no longer dereference primary_pe (because someone else may free it under us). 2. If atomic_dec_and_test(&primary_pe->ref_count) returns true, the process is responsible for freeing primary_pe. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2008-07-21dm snapshot: use per device mempoolsMikulas Patocka1-18/+22
Change snapshot per-module mempool to per-device mempool. Per-module mempools could cause a deadlock if multiple snapshot devices are stacked above each other. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-07-21dm snapshot: fix race during exception creationMikulas Patocka1-0/+28
Fix a race condition that returns incorrect data when a write causes an exception to be allocated whilst a read is still in flight. The race condition happens as follows: * A read to non-reallocated sector in the snapshot is submitted so that the read is routed to the original device. * A write to the original device is submitted. The write causes an exception that reallocates the block. The write proceeds. * The original read is dequeued and reads the wrong data. This race can be triggered with CFQ scheduler and one thread writing and multiple threads reading simultaneously. (This patch relies upon the earlier dm-kcopyd-per-device.patch to avoid a deadlock.) Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-07-21dm snapshot: track snapshot readsMikulas Patocka1-10/+97
Whenever a snapshot read gets mapped through to the origin, track it in a per-snapshot hash table indexed by chunk number, using memory allocated from a new per-snapshot mempool. We need to track these reads to avoid race conditions which will be fixed by patches that follow. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-04-25dm: move include filesAlasdair G Kergon1-1/+1
Publish the dm-io, dm-log and dm-kcopyd headers in include/linux. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-04-25dm kcopyd: clean interfaceHeinz Mauelshagen1-4/+4
Clean up the kcopyd interface to prepare for publishing it in include/linux. Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <hjm@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-04-25dm io: clean interfaceHeinz Mauelshagen1-1/+1
Clean up the dm-io interface to prepare for publishing it in include/linux. Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <hjm@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-04-25dm snapshot: store pointer to target instanceMikulas Patocka1-3/+3
Save pointer to dm_target in dm_snapshot structure. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-04-25dm snapshot: reduce default memory allocationMilan Broz1-2/+2
Limit the amount of memory allocated per snapshot on systems with a large page size. (The larger default chunk size on these systems compensates for the smaller number of pages reserved.) Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-03-28dm io: write error bits form long not intAlasdair G Kergon1-1/+1
write_err is an unsigned long used with set_bit() so should not be passed around as unsigned int. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10271 Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08dm snapshot: combine consecutive exceptions in memoryMilan Broz1-14/+68
Provided sector_t is 64 bits, reduce the in-memory footprint of the snapshot exception table by the simple method of using unused bits of the chunk number to combine consecutive entries. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-02-08dm snapshot: use rounddown_pow_of_twoRobert P. J. Day1-12/+1
Since the source file already includes the log2.h header file, it seems pointless to re-invent the necessary routine. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2007-10-20dm: use is_power_of_2vignesh babu1-1/+2
Replacing n & (n - 1) for power of 2 check by is_power_of_2(n) Signed-off-by: vignesh babu <vignesh.babu@wipro.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2007-10-10Drop 'size' argument from bio_endio and bi_end_ioNeilBrown1-1/+1
As bi_end_io is only called once when the reqeust is complete, the 'size' argument is now redundant. Remove it. Now there is no need for bio_endio to subtract the size completed from bi_size. So don't do that either. While we are at it, change bi_end_io to return void. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-12dm: disable barriersStefan Bader1-6/+0
This patch causes device-mapper to reject any barrier requests. This is done since most of the targets won't handle this correctly anyway. So until the situation improves it is better to reject these requests at the first place. Since barrier requests won't get to the targets, the checks there can be removed. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <shbader@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12dm snapshot: permit invalid activationMilan Broz1-1/+4
Allow invalid snapshots to be activated instead of failing. This allows userspace to reinstate any given snapshot state - for example after an unscheduled reboot - and clean up the invalid snapshot at its leisure. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12dm: use kmem_cache macroAlasdair G Kergon1-55/+50
Use new KMEM_CACHE() macro and make the newly-exposed structure names more meaningful. Also remove some superfluous casts and inlines (let a modern compiler be the judge). Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] make drivers/md/dm-snap.c:ksnapd staticAdrian Bunk1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] dm: snapshot: abstract memory releaseMilan Broz1-7/+12
Move the code that releases memory used by a snapshot into a separate function. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] dm: map and endio symbolic return codesKiyoshi Ueda1-6/+6
Update existing targets to use the new symbols for return values from target map and end_io functions. There is no effect on behaviour. Test results: Done build test without errors. Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_tChristoph Lameter1-3/+3
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache. The patch was generated using the following script: #!/bin/sh # # Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources. # set -e for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do quilt add $file sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$ mv /tmp/$$ $file quilt refresh done The script was run like this sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache" Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>