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    sysfs: Support sysfs_notify from atomic context with new sysfs_notify_dirent · f1282c84
    Neil Brown 提交于
    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: NNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
    Acked-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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