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* remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer neededGreg Kroah-Hartman2007-05-021-6/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | We need to work on cleaning up the relationship between kobjects, ksets and ktypes. The removal of 'struct subsystem' is the first step of this, especially as it is not really needed at all. Thanks to Kay for fixing the bugs in this patch. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* device_schedule_callback() needs a module referenceAlan Stern2007-04-271-3/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch (as896b) fixes an oversight in the design of device_schedule_callback(). It is necessary to acquire a reference to the module owning the callback routine, to prevent the module from being unloaded before the callback can run. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] sysfs: reinstate exclusion between method calls and attribute ↵Alan Stern2007-03-151-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | unregistration This patch (as869) reinstates the mutual exclusion between sysfs attribute method calls and attribute unregistration. The previously-reported deadlocks have been fixed, and this exclusion is by far the simplest way to avoid races during driver unbinding. The check for orphaned read-buffers has been moved down slightly, so that the remainder of a partially-read buffer will still be available to userspace even after the attribute has been unregistered. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] sysfs and driver core: add callback helper, used by SCSI and S390Alan Stern2007-03-151-0/+54
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch (as868) adds a helper routine for device drivers that need to set up a callback to perform some action in a different process's context. This is intended for use by attribute methods that want to unregister themselves or their parent device. Attribute method calls are mutually exclusive with unregistration, so such actions cannot be taken directly. Two attribute methods are converted to use the new helper routine: one for SCSI device deletion and one for System/390 ccwgroup devices. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* sysfs: allow attributes to be added to groupsAlan Stern2007-02-231-0/+44
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch (as860) adds two new sysfs routines: sysfs_add_file_to_group() and sysfs_remove_file_from_group(). A later patch adds code that uses the new routines. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* PCI/sysfs/kobject kernel-doc fixesRandy Dunlap2007-02-161-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Fix kernel-doc warnings in PCI, sysfs, and kobject files. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* sysfs: error handling in sysfs, fill_read_buffer()Oliver Neukum2007-02-071-4/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | if a driver returns an error in fill_read_buffer(), the buffer will be marked as filled. Subsequent reads will return eof. But there is no data because of an error, not because it has been read. Not marking the buffer filled is the obvious fix. Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* sysfs: kobject_put cleanupMariusz Kozlowski2007-02-071-3/+2
| | | | | | | | | This patch removes redundant argument checks for kobject_put(). Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Driver core: fix race in sysfs between sysfs_remove_file() and read()/write()Oliver Neukum2007-02-071-17/+50
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch prevents a race between IO and removing a file from sysfs. It introduces a list of sysfs_buffers associated with a file at the inode. Upon removal of a file the list is walked and the buffers marked orphaned. IO to orphaned buffers fails with -ENODEV. The driver can safely free associated data structures or be unloaded. Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name> Acked-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] sysfs: change uses of f_{dentry, vfsmnt} to use f_pathJosef "Jeff" Sipek2006-12-081-8/+8
| | | | | | | | | Change all the uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to f_path.{dentry,mnt} in the sysfs filesystem code. Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* sysfs: sysfs_write_file() writes zero terminated dataThomas Maier2006-12-011-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | since most of the files in sysfs are text files, it would be nice, if the "store" function called during sysfs_write_file() gets a zero terminated string / data. The current implementation seems not to ensure this. (But only if it is the first time the zeroed buffer page is allocated.) So the buffer can be scanned by sscanf() easily, for example. This patch simply sets a \0 char behind the data in buffer->page. Signed-off-by: Thomas Maier <balagi@justmail.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* sysfs: update obsolete comment in sysfs_update_fileHidetoshi Seto2006-10-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | | And the obsolete comment should be updated (or totally removed). Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* sysfs: remove duplicated dput in sysfs_update_fileHidetoshi Seto2006-10-181-5/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Following function can drops d_count twice against one reference by lookup_one_len. <SOURCE> /** * sysfs_update_file - update the modified timestamp on an object attribute. * @kobj: object we're acting for. * @attr: attribute descriptor. */ int sysfs_update_file(struct kobject * kobj, const struct attribute * attr) { struct dentry * dir = kobj->dentry; struct dentry * victim; int res = -ENOENT; mutex_lock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex); victim = lookup_one_len(attr->name, dir, strlen(attr->name)); if (!IS_ERR(victim)) { /* make sure dentry is really there */ if (victim->d_inode && (victim->d_parent->d_inode == dir->d_inode)) { victim->d_inode->i_mtime = CURRENT_TIME; fsnotify_modify(victim); /** * Drop reference from initial sysfs_get_dentry(). */ dput(victim); res = 0; } else d_drop(victim); /** * Drop the reference acquired from sysfs_get_dentry() above. */ dput(victim); } mutex_unlock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex); return res; } </SOURCE> PCI-hotplug (drivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug_core.c) is only user of this function. I confirmed that dentry of /sys/bus/pci/slots/XXX/* have negative d_count value. This patch removes unnecessary dput(). Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] pr_debug: sysfs: use size_t length modifier in pr_debug format argumentsZach Brown2006-10-031-2/+2
| | | | | | | | sysfs: use size_t length modifier in pr_debug format arguments Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sysfs: Allow sysfs attribute files to be pollableNeilBrown2006-04-141-0/+76
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It works like this: Open the file Read all the contents. Call poll requesting POLLERR or POLLPRI (so select/exceptfds works) When poll returns, close the file and go to top of loop. or lseek to start of file and go back to the 'read'. Events are signaled by an object manager calling sysfs_notify(kobj, dir, attr); If the dir is non-NULL, it is used to find a subdirectory which contains the attribute (presumably created by sysfs_create_group). This has a cost of one int per attribute, one wait_queuehead per kobject, one int per open file. The name "sysfs_notify" may be confused with the inotify functionality. Maybe it would be nice to support inotify for sysfs attributes as well? This patch also uses sysfs_notify to allow /sys/block/md*/md/sync_action to be pollable Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] sysfs: zero terminate sysfs write buffersGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-04-021-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | No one should be writing a PAGE_SIZE worth of data to a normal sysfs file, so properly terminate the buffer. Thanks to Al Viro for pointing out my supidity here. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ constArjan van de Ven2006-03-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a conversion to make the various file_operations structs in fs/ const. Basically a regexp job, with a few manual fixups The goal is both to increase correctness (harder to accidentally write to shared datastructures) and reducing the false sharing of cachelines with things that get dirty in .data (while .rodata is nicely read only and thus cache clean) Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sysfs: fix problem with duplicate sysfs directories and filesManeesh Soni2006-03-201-2/+4
| | | | | | | | The following patch checks for existing sysfs_dirent before preparing new one while creating sysfs directories and files. Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] sysfs: kzalloc conversionEric Sesterhenn2006-03-201-2/+1
| | | | | | | | this converts fs/sysfs to kzalloc() usage. compile tested with make allyesconfig Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_semJes Sorensen2006-01-091-9/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your luck with it might be different. Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> (finished the conversion) Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* [PATCH] sysfs: fix sysfs_chmod_fileManeesh Soni2005-07-291-8/+10
| | | | | | | | | | o sysfs_chmod_file() must update the new iattr field in sysfs_dirent else the mode change will not be persistent in case of inode evacuation from cache. Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] inotifyRobert Love2005-07-121-5/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly its inability to scale and its terrible user interface: * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount. * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of stat structures. * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful. Signals? inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change notification: * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO. You get a single fd, which is select()-able. * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item you were watching is on was unmounted." * inotify can watch directories or files. Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure), Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects. See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] DocBook: update commentsMartin Waitz2005-06-241-2/+3
| | | | | | | | This patch updates some comments to match code changes. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] remove duplicate get_dentry functions in various placesChristoph Hellwig2005-06-231-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Various filesystem drivers have grown a get_dentry() function that's a duplicate of lookup_one_len, except that it doesn't take a maximum length argument and doesn't check for \0 or / in the passed in filename. Switch all these places to use lookup_one_len. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] SYSFS: fix PAGE_SIZE checkJon Smirl2005-06-201-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Without this change I can't set an attribute exactly PAGE_SIZE in length. There is no need for zero termination because the interface uses lengths. From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] sysfs: if show/store is missing return -EIODmitry Torokhov2005-06-201-2/+2
| | | | | | | | sysfs: if attribute does not implement show or store method read/write should return -EIO instead of 0 or -EINVAL. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] DocBook: fix some descriptionsMartin Waitz2005-05-011-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | Some KernelDoc descriptions are updated to match the current code. No code changes. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sysfs: add sysfs_chmod_file()Kay Sievers2005-04-181-0/+35
| | | | | | | | sysfs: allow changing the permissions for already created attributes Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-161-0/+447
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
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