sysfs: Support sysfs_notify from atomic context with new sysfs_notify_dirent

Support sysfs_notify from atomic context with new sysfs_notify_dirent

sysfs_notify currently takes sysfs_mutex.
This means that it cannot be called in atomic context.
sysfs_mutex  is sometimes held over a malloc (sysfs_rename_dir)
so it can block on low memory.

In md I want to be able to notify on a sysfs attribute from
atomic context, and I don't want to block on low memory because I
could be in the writeout path for freeing memory.

So:
 - export the "sysfs_dirent" structure along with sysfs_get, sysfs_put
   and sysfs_get_dirent so I can get the sysfs_dirent that I want to
   notify on and hold it in an md structure.
 - split sysfs_notify_dirent out of sysfs_notify so the sysfs_dirent
   can be notified on with no blocking (just a spinlock).

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sysfs.h b/include/linux/sysfs.h
index 8ec406afb3eb..d8e0230f1e68 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysfs.h
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ struct sysfs_ops {
 	ssize_t	(*store)(struct kobject *,struct attribute *,const char *, size_t);
 };
 
+struct sysfs_dirent;
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
 
 int sysfs_schedule_callback(struct kobject *kobj, void (*func)(void *),
@@ -118,10 +120,13 @@ void sysfs_remove_file_from_group(struct kobject *kobj,
 			const struct attribute *attr, const char *group);
 
 void sysfs_notify(struct kobject *kobj, char *dir, char *attr);
-
+void sysfs_notify_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent *sd);
+struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_get_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd,
+				      const unsigned char *name);
+struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_get(struct sysfs_dirent *sd);
+void sysfs_put(struct sysfs_dirent *sd);
 void sysfs_printk_last_file(void);
-
-extern int __must_check sysfs_init(void);
+int __must_check sysfs_init(void);
 
 #else /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
 
@@ -227,6 +232,22 @@ static inline void sysfs_remove_file_from_group(struct kobject *kobj,
 static inline void sysfs_notify(struct kobject *kobj, char *dir, char *attr)
 {
 }
+static inline void sysfs_notify_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
+{
+}
+static inline
+struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_get_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd,
+				      const unsigned char *name)
+{
+	return NULL;
+}
+static inline struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_get(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
+{
+	return NULL;
+}
+static inline void sysfs_put(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
+{
+}
 
 static inline int __must_check sysfs_init(void)
 {