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: NAlan 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: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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: NAlan 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: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Fix kernel-doc warnings in PCI, sysfs, and kobject files.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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: NOliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This patch removes redundant argument checks for kobject_put().
Signed-off-by: NMariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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: NOliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
Acked-by: NManeesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Change all the uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to f_path.{dentry,mnt} in the sysfs
filesystem code.
Signed-off-by: NJosef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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: NThomas Maier <balagi@justmail.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

And the obsolete comment should be updated (or totally removed).
Signed-off-by: NHidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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: NHidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: NManeesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

sysfs: use size_t length modifier in pr_debug format arguments
Signed-off-by: NZach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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: NNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The following patch checks for existing sysfs_dirent before
preparing new one while creating sysfs directories and files.
Signed-off-by: NManeesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

this converts fs/sysfs to kzalloc() usage.
compile tested with make allyesconfig
Signed-off-by: NEric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

(finished the conversion)
Signed-off-by: NJes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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: NManeesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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: NRobert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch updates some comments to match code changes.
Signed-off-by: NMartin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

sysfs: if attribute does not implement show or store method
       read/write should return -EIO instead of 0 or -EINVAL.
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Some KernelDoc descriptions are updated to match the current code.
No code changes.
Signed-off-by: NMartin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

sysfs: allow changing the permissions for already created attributes
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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!