Given we have two different types for the journal object flags and the
Compression enum, let's make the latter a regular non-sparse enum, and
thus remove some surprises. We have to convert anyway between the two,
and already do via COMPRESSION_FROM_OBJECT().
The compression helpers are used both in journal code and in coredump
code, and there's a good chance we'll use them later for other stuff.
Let's hence move them into src/basic/, to make them a proper internal
API we can use from everywhere where that's desirable. (pstore might be
a candidate, for example)
No real code changes, just some moving around, build system
rearrangements, and stripping of journal-def.h inclusion.
We recently started making more use of malloc_usable_size() and rely on
it (see the string_erase() story). Given that we don't really support
sytems where malloc_usable_size() cannot be trusted beyond statistics
anyway, let's go fully in and rework GREEDY_REALLOC() on top of it:
instead of passing around and maintaining the currenly allocated size
everywhere, let's just derive it automatically from
malloc_usable_size().
I am mostly after this for the simplicity this brings. It also brings
minor efficiency improvements I guess, but things become so much nicer
to look at if we can avoid these allocation size variables everywhere.
Note that the malloc_usable_size() man page says relying on it wasn't
"good programming practice", but I think it does this for reasons that
don't apply here: the greedy realloc logic specifically doesn't rely on
the returned extra size, beyond the fact that it is equal or larger than
what was requested.
(This commit was supposed to be a quick patch btw, but apparently we use
the greedy realloc stuff quite a bit across the codebase, so this ends
up touching *a*lot* of code.)
Andrii Chubatiuk
Frantisek Sumsal
Yu Watanabe
Li kunyu
Lennart Poettering
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek