1. 26 5月, 2010 1 次提交
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      driver core: add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loading · 578454ff
      Kay Sievers 提交于
      This adds:
        alias: devname:<name>
      to some common kernel modules, which will allow the on-demand loading
      of the kernel module when the device node is accessed.
      
      Ideally all these modules would be compiled-in, but distros seems too
      much in love with their modularization that we need to cover the common
      cases with this new facility. It will allow us to remove a bunch of pretty
      useless init scripts and modprobes from init scripts.
      
      The static device node aliases will be carried in the module itself. The
      program depmod will extract this information to a file in the module directory:
        $ cat /lib/modules/2.6.34-00650-g537b60d1-dirty/modules.devname
        # Device nodes to trigger on-demand module loading.
        microcode cpu/microcode c10:184
        fuse fuse c10:229
        ppp_generic ppp c108:0
        tun net/tun c10:200
        dm_mod mapper/control c10:235
      
      Udev will pick up the depmod created file on startup and create all the
      static device nodes which the kernel modules specify, so that these modules
      get automatically loaded when the device node is accessed:
        $ /sbin/udevd --debug
        ...
        static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/cpu/microcode' c10:184
        static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/fuse' c10:229
        static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/ppp' c108:0
        static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/net/tun' c10:200
        static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/mapper/control' c10:235
        udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/net/tun' 0666
        udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/fuse' 0666
      
      A few device nodes are switched to statically allocated numbers, to allow
      the static nodes to work. This might also useful for systems which still run
      a plain static /dev, which is completely unsafe to use with any dynamic minor
      numbers.
      
      Note:
      The devname aliases must be limited to the *common* and *single*instance*
      device nodes, like the misc devices, and never be used for conceptually limited
      systems like the loop devices, which should rather get fixed properly and get a
      control node for losetup to talk to, instead of creating a random number of
      device nodes in advance, regardless if they are ever used.
      
      This facility is to hide the mess distros are creating with too modualized
      kernels, and just to hide that these modules are not compiled-in, and not to
      paper-over broken concepts. Thanks! :)
      
      Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
      Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
      Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
      Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
      Signed-Off-By: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      578454ff
  2. 22 5月, 2010 1 次提交
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  4. 30 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking... · 5a0e3ad6
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
      
      percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
      included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
      in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
      universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
      
      percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
      this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
      headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
      needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
      used as the basis of conversion.
      
        http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
      
      The script does the followings.
      
      * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
        only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
        gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
      
      * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
        blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
        to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
        core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
        alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
        doesn't seem to be any matching order.
      
      * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
        because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
        an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
        file.
      
      The conversion was done in the following steps.
      
      1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
         over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
         and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
         files.
      
      2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
         some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
         embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
         inclusions to around 150 files.
      
      3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
         from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
      
      4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
         e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
         APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
      
      5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
         editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
         files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
         inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
         wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
         slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
         necessary.
      
      6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
      
      7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
         were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
         distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
         more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
         build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
      
         * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
         * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
         * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
         * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
         * s390 SMP allmodconfig
         * alpha SMP allmodconfig
         * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
      
      8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
         a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
      
      Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
      6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
      If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
      headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
      the specific arch.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Guess-its-ok-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
      5a0e3ad6
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      autofs4: remove hashed check in validate_wait() · 463aea1a
      Ian Kent 提交于
      The recent ->lookup() deadlock correction required the directory inode
      mutex to be dropped while waiting for expire completion.  We were
      concerned about side effects from this change and one has been identified.
      
      I saw several error messages.
      
      They cause autofs to become quite confused and don't really point to the
      actual problem.
      
      Things like:
      
      handle_packet_missing_direct:1376: can't find map entry for (43,1827932)
      
      which is usually totally fatal (although in this case it wouldn't be
      except that I treat is as such because it normally is).
      
      do_mount_direct: direct trigger not valid or already mounted
      /test/nested/g3c/s1/ss1
      
      which is recoverable, however if this problem is at play it can cause
      autofs to become quite confused as to the dependencies in the mount tree
      because mount triggers end up mounted multiple times.  It's hard to
      accurately check for this over mounting case and automount shouldn't need
      to if the kernel module is doing its job.
      
      There was one other message, similar in consequence of this last one but I
      can't locate a log example just now.
      
      When checking if a mount has already completed prior to adding a new mount
      request to the wait queue we check if the dentry is hashed and, if so, if
      it is a mount point.  But, if a mount successfully completed while we
      slept on the wait queue mutex the dentry must exist for the mount to have
      completed so the test is not really needed.
      
      Mounts can also be done on top of a global root dentry, so for the above
      case, where a mount request completes and the wait queue entry has already
      been removed, the hashed test returning false can cause an incorrect
      callback to the daemon.  Also, d_mountpoint() is not sufficient to check
      if a mount has completed for the multi-mount case when we don't have a
      real mount at the base of the tree.
      Signed-off-by: NIan Kent <raven@themaw.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      463aea1a
  11. 03 5月, 2009 1 次提交
  12. 21 4月, 2009 2 次提交
  13. 01 4月, 2009 2 次提交
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      autofs4: fix lookup deadlock · 8f63aaa8
      Ian Kent 提交于
      A deadlock can occur when user space uses a signal (autofs version 4 uses
      SIGCHLD for this) to effect expire completion.
      
      The order of events is:
      
      Expire process completes, but before being able to send SIGCHLD to it's parent
      ...
      
      Another process walks onto a different mount point and drops the directory
      inode semaphore prior to sending the request to the daemon as it must ...
      
      A third process does an lstat on on the expired mount point causing it to wait
      on expire completion (unfortunately) holding the directory semaphore.
      
      The mount request then arrives at the daemon which does an lstat and,
      deadlock.
      
      For some time I was concerned about releasing the directory semaphore around
      the expire wait in autofs4_lookup as well as for the mount call back.  I
      finally realized that the last round of changes in this function made the
      expiring dentry and the lookup dentry separate and distinct so the check and
      possible wait can be done anywhere prior to the mount call back.  This patch
      moves the check to just before the mount call back and inside the directory
      inode mutex release.
      Signed-off-by: NIan Kent <raven@themaw.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8f63aaa8
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      autofs4: cleanup expire code duplication · 56fcef75
      Ian Kent 提交于
      A significant portion of the autofs_dev_ioctl_expire() and
      autofs4_expire_multi() functions is duplicated code.  This patch cleans that
      up.
      Signed-off-by: NIan Kent <raven@themaw.net>
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      56fcef75
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      autofs4: add miscellaneous device for ioctls · 8d7b48e0
      Ian Kent 提交于
      Add a miscellaneous device to the autofs4 module for routing ioctls.  This
      provides the ability to obtain an ioctl file handle for an autofs mount
      point that is possibly covered by another mount.
      
      The actual problem with autofs is that it can't reconnect to existing
      mounts.  Immediately one things of just adding the ability to remount
      autofs file systems would solve it, but alas, that can't work.  This is
      because autofs direct mounts and the implementation of "on demand mount
      and expire" of nested mount trees have the file system mounted on top of
      the mount trigger dentry.
      
      To resolve this a miscellaneous device node for routing ioctl commands to
      these mount points has been implemented in the autofs4 kernel module and a
      library added to autofs.  This provides the ability to open a file
      descriptor for these over mounted autofs mount points.
      
      Please refer to Documentation/filesystems/autofs4-mount-control.txt for a
      discussion of the problem, implementation alternatives considered and a
      description of the interface.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
      Signed-off-by: NIan Kent <raven@themaw.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8d7b48e0