[PATCH] configfs: User-driven configuration filesystem

Configfs, a file system for userspace-driven kernel object configuration.
The OCFS2 stack makes extensive use of this for propagation of cluster
configuration information into kernel.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 159 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/configfs/mount.c b/fs/configfs/mount.c
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+++ b/fs/configfs/mount.c
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+/* -*- mode: c; c-basic-offset: 8; -*-
+ * vim: noexpandtab sw=8 ts=8 sts=0:
+ *
+ * mount.c - operations for initializing and mounting configfs.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
+ * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+ * General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
+ * License along with this program; if not, write to the
+ * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+ * Boston, MA 021110-1307, USA.
+ *
+ * Based on sysfs:
+ * 	sysfs is Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003 Patrick Mochel
+ *
+ * configfs Copyright (C) 2005 Oracle.  All rights reserved.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/mount.h>
+#include <linux/pagemap.h>
+#include <linux/init.h>
+
+#include <linux/configfs.h>
+#include "configfs_internal.h"
+
+/* Random magic number */
+#define CONFIGFS_MAGIC 0x62656570
+
+struct vfsmount * configfs_mount = NULL;
+struct super_block * configfs_sb = NULL;
+static int configfs_mnt_count = 0;
+
+static struct super_operations configfs_ops = {
+	.statfs		= simple_statfs,
+	.drop_inode	= generic_delete_inode,
+};
+
+static struct config_group configfs_root_group = {
+	.cg_item = {
+		.ci_namebuf	= "root",
+		.ci_name	= configfs_root_group.cg_item.ci_namebuf,
+	},
+};
+
+int configfs_is_root(struct config_item *item)
+{
+	return item == &configfs_root_group.cg_item;
+}
+
+static struct configfs_dirent configfs_root = {
+	.s_sibling	= LIST_HEAD_INIT(configfs_root.s_sibling),
+	.s_children	= LIST_HEAD_INIT(configfs_root.s_children),
+	.s_element	= &configfs_root_group.cg_item,
+	.s_type		= CONFIGFS_ROOT,
+};
+
+static int configfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
+{
+	struct inode *inode;
+	struct dentry *root;
+
+	sb->s_blocksize = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
+	sb->s_blocksize_bits = PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
+	sb->s_magic = CONFIGFS_MAGIC;
+	sb->s_op = &configfs_ops;
+	configfs_sb = sb;
+
+	inode = configfs_new_inode(S_IFDIR | S_IRWXU | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO);
+	if (inode) {
+		inode->i_op = &configfs_dir_inode_operations;
+		inode->i_fop = &configfs_dir_operations;
+		/* directory inodes start off with i_nlink == 2 (for "." entry) */
+		inode->i_nlink++;
+	} else {
+		pr_debug("configfs: could not get root inode\n");
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+
+	root = d_alloc_root(inode);
+	if (!root) {
+		pr_debug("%s: could not get root dentry!\n",__FUNCTION__);
+		iput(inode);
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+	config_group_init(&configfs_root_group);
+	configfs_root_group.cg_item.ci_dentry = root;
+	root->d_fsdata = &configfs_root;
+	sb->s_root = root;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static struct super_block *configfs_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
+	int flags, const char *dev_name, void *data)
+{
+	return get_sb_single(fs_type, flags, data, configfs_fill_super);
+}
+
+static struct file_system_type configfs_fs_type = {
+	.owner		= THIS_MODULE,
+	.name		= "configfs",
+	.get_sb		= configfs_get_sb,
+	.kill_sb	= kill_litter_super,
+};
+
+int configfs_pin_fs(void)
+{
+	return simple_pin_fs("configfs", &configfs_mount,
+			     &configfs_mnt_count);
+}
+
+void configfs_release_fs(void)
+{
+	simple_release_fs(&configfs_mount, &configfs_mnt_count);
+}
+
+
+static decl_subsys(config, NULL, NULL);
+
+static int __init configfs_init(void)
+{
+	int err;
+
+	kset_set_kset_s(&config_subsys, kernel_subsys);
+	err = subsystem_register(&config_subsys);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
+
+	err = register_filesystem(&configfs_fs_type);
+	if (err) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "configfs: Unable to register filesystem!\n");
+		subsystem_unregister(&config_subsys);
+	}
+
+	return err;
+}
+
+static void __exit configfs_exit(void)
+{
+	unregister_filesystem(&configfs_fs_type);
+	subsystem_unregister(&config_subsys);
+}
+
+MODULE_AUTHOR("Oracle");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_VERSION("0.0.1");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Simple RAM filesystem for user driven kernel subsystem configuration.");
+
+module_init(configfs_init);
+module_exit(configfs_exit);