- 06 10月, 2013 8 次提交
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
sysfs read path implements its own buffering scheme between userland and kernel callbacks, which essentially is a degenerate duplicate of seq_file. This patch replaces the custom read buffering implementation in sysfs with seq_file. While the amount of code reduction is small, this reduces low level hairiness and enables future development of a new versatile API based on seq_file so that sysfs features can be shared with other subsystems. As write path was already converted to not use sysfs_open_file->page, this patch makes ->page and ->count unused and removes them. Userland behavior remains the same except for some extreme corner cases - e.g. sysfs will now regenerate the content each time a file is read after a non-contiguous seek whereas the original code would keep using the same content. While this is a userland visible behavior change, it is extremely unlikely to be noticeable and brings sysfs behavior closer to that of procfs. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
There isn't much to be gained by keeping around kernel buffer while a file is open especially as the read path planned to be converted to use seq_file and won't use the buffer. This patch makes sysfs_write_file() use per-write transient buffer instead of sysfs_open_file->page. This simplifies the write path, enables removing sysfs_open_file->page once read path is updated and will help merging bin file write path which already requires the use of a transient buffer due to a locking order issue. As the function comments of flush_write_buffer() and sysfs_write_buffer() are being updated anyway, reformat them so that they're more conventional. v2: Use min_t() instead of min() in sysfs_write_file() to avoid build warning on arm. Reported by build test robot. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
sysfs will be converted to use seq_file for read path, which will make it difficult to pass around multiple pointers directly. This patch adds sysfs_open_file->sd and ->file so that we can reach all the necessary data structures from sysfs_open_file. flush_write_buffer() is updated to drop @dentry which was used to discover the sysfs_dirent as it's now available through sysfs_open_file->sd. This patch doesn't cause any behavior difference. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
sysfs read path will be converted to use seq_file which will handle buffering making sysfs_buffer a misnomer. Rename sysfs_buffer to sysfs_open_file, and sysfs_open_dirent->buffers to ->files. This path is pure rename. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
Add a separate mutex to protect sysfs_open_dirent->buffers list. This will allow performing sleepable operations while traversing sysfs_buffers, which will be renamed to sysfs_open_file. Note that currently sysfs_open_dirent->buffers list isn't being used for anything and this patch doesn't make any functional difference. It will be used to merge regular and bin file supports. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
Currently, sysfs_ops is fetched during sysfs_open_file() and cached in sysfs_buffer->ops to be used while the file is open. This patch removes the caching and makes each operation directly fetch sysfs_ops. This patch doesn't introduce any behavior difference and is to prepare for merging regular and bin file supports. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
->needs_read_fill is used to implement the following behaviors. 1. Ensure buffer filling on the first read. 2. Force buffer filling after a write. 3. Force buffer filling after a successful poll. However, #2 and #3 don't really work as sysfs doesn't reset file position. While the read buffer would be refilled, the next read would continue from the position after the last read or write, requiring an explicit seek to the start for it to be useful, which makes ->needs_read_fill superflous as read buffer is always refilled if f_pos == 0. Update sysfs_read_file() to test buffer->page for #1 instead and remove ->needs_read_fill. While this changes behavior in extreme corner cases - e.g. re-reading a sysfs file after seeking to non-zero position after a write or poll, it's highly unlikely to lead to actual breakage. This change is to prepare for using seq_file in the read path. While at it, reformat a comment in fill_write_buffer(). Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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- 04 10月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
sysfs_addrm_start/finish() enclose sysfs_dirent additions and deletions and sysfs_addrm_cxt is used to record information necessary to finish the operations. Currently, sysfs_addrm_start() takes @parent_sd, records it in sysfs_addrm_cxt, and assumes that all operations in the block are performed under that @parent_sd. This assumption has been fine until now but we want to make some operations behave recursively and, while having @parent_sd recorded in sysfs_addrm_cxt doesn't necessarily prevents that, it becomes confusing. This patch removes sysfs_addrm_cxt->parent_sd and makes sysfs_add_one() take an explicit @parent_sd parameter. Note that sysfs_remove_one() doesn't need the extra argument as its parent is always known from the target @sd. While at it, add __acquires/releases() notations to sysfs_addrm_start/finish() respectively. This patch doesn't make any functional difference. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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- 27 9月, 2013 3 次提交
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
Some internal sysfs functions which take explicit namespace argument are weird in that they place the optional @ns in front of @name which is contrary to the established convention. This is confusing and error-prone especially as @ns and @name may be interchanged without causing compilation warning. Swap the positions of @name and @ns in the following internal functions. sysfs_find_dirent() sysfs_rename() sysfs_hash_and_remove() sysfs_name_hash() sysfs_name_compare() create_dir() This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
The pre-existing sysfs interfaces which take explicit namespace argument are weird in that they place the optional @ns in front of @name which is contrary to the established convention. For example, we end up forcing vast majority of sysfs_get_dirent() users to do sysfs_get_dirent(parent, NULL, name), which is silly and error-prone especially as @ns and @name may be interchanged without causing compilation warning. This renames sysfs_get_dirent() to sysfs_get_dirent_ns() and swap the positions of @name and @ns, and sysfs_get_dirent() is now a wrapper around sysfs_get_dirent_ns(). This makes confusions a lot less likely. There are other interfaces which take @ns before @name. They'll be updated by following patches. This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes. v2: EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() wasn't updated leading to undefined symbol error on module builds. Reported by build test robot. Fixed. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
sysfs ns (namespace) implementation became more convoluted than necessary while trying to hide ns information from visible interface. The relatively recent attr ns support is a good example. * attr ns tag is determined by sysfs_ops->namespace() callback while dir tag is determined by kobj_type->namespace(). The placement is arbitrary. * Instead of performing operations with explicit ns tag, the namespace callback is routed through sysfs_attr_ns(), sysfs_ops->namespace(), class_attr_namespace(), class_attr->namespace(). It's not simpler in any sense. The only thing this convolution does is traversing the whole stack backwards. The namespace callbacks are unncessary because the operations involved are inherently synchronous. The information can be provided in in straight-forward top-down direction and reversing that direction is unnecessary and against basic design principles. This backward interface is unnecessarily convoluted and hinders properly separating out sysfs from driver model / kobject for proper layering. This patch updates attr ns support such that * sysfs_ops->namespace() and class_attr->namespace() are dropped. * sysfs_{create|remove}_file_ns(), which take explicit @ns param, are added and sysfs_{create|remove}_file() are now simple wrappers around the ns aware functions. * ns handling is dropped from sysfs_chmod_file(). Nobody uses it at this point. sysfs_chmod_file_ns() can be added later if necessary. * Explicit @ns is propagated through class_{create|remove}_file_ns() and netdev_class_{create|remove}_file_ns(). * driver/net/bonding which is currently the only user of attr namespace is updated to use netdev_class_{create|remove}_file_ns() with @bh->net as the ns tag instead of using the namespace callback. This patch should be an equivalent conversion without any functional difference. It makes the code easier to follow, reduces lines of code a bit and helps proper separation and layering. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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- 22 8月, 2013 6 次提交
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由 Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
This fixes the coding style warnings in fs/sysfs/file.c for broken strings across lines. Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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由 Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
This fixes the uaccess.h warnings in the sysfs.c files. Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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由 Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
This fixes up the 80 column coding style issues in the sysfs .c files. Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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由 Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
This fixes up all of the space-related coding style issues for the sysfs code. Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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由 Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
This removes all trailing whitespace errors in the sysfs code. Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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由 Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
The export should happen after the function, not at the bottom of the file, so fix that up. Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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- 08 6月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Nick Dyer 提交于
If sysfs_notify is called on a binary attribute, bad things can happen, so prevent it. Note, no in-kernel usage of this is currently present, but in the future, it's good to be safe. Changes in V2: - Also ignore sysfs_notify on dirs, links - Use WARN_ON rather than silently failing - Compiled and tested (huge apologies about first submission) Signed-off-by: NNick Dyer <nick.dyer@itdev.co.uk> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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- 18 1月, 2013 2 次提交
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由 Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
This reverts commit 6ad58fa8 as %pSR isn't in the tree yet. Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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由 Joe Perches 提交于
Use the new vsprintf extension to avoid any possible message interleaving. Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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- 27 11月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Josh Triplett 提交于
Nothing outside of fs/sysfs/file.c references this function, so mark it static. Signed-off-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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- 25 1月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Recently an OOPS was observed from the usb serial io_ti driver when it tried to remove sysfs directories. Upon investigation it turns out this driver was always buggy and that a recent sysfs change had stopped guarding itself against removing attributes from sysfs directories that had already been removed. :( Historically we have been silent about attempting to files from nonexistent sysfs directories and have politely returned error codes. That has resulted in people writing broken code that ignores the error codes. Issue a kernel WARNING and a stack backtrace to make it clear in no uncertain terms that abusing sysfs is not ok, and the callers need to fix their code. This change transforms the io_ti OOPS into a more comprehensible error message and stack backtrace. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Reported-by: NWolfgang Frisch <wfpub@roembden.net> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- 04 1月, 2012 2 次提交
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由 Al Viro 提交于
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Al Viro 提交于
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 20 10月, 2011 2 次提交
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
sysfs is a core piece of ifrastructure that many people use and few people have all of the rules in their head on how to use it correctly. Add warnings for people using tagged directories improperly to that any misuses can be caught and diagnosed quickly. A single inexpensive test in sysfs_find_dirent is almost sufficient to catch all possible misuses. An additional warning is needed in sysfs_add_dirent so that we actually fail when attempting to add an untagged dirent in a tagged directory. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Looking up files in sysfs is hard to understand and analyize because we currently allow placing untagged files in tagged directories. In the implementation of that we have two subtly different meanings of NULL. NULL meaning there is no tag on a directory entry and NULL meaning we don't care which namespace the lookup is performed for. This multiple uses of NULL have resulted in subtle bugs (since fixed) in the code. Currently it is only the bonding driver that needs to have an untagged file in a tagged directory. To untagle this mess I am adding support for tagged files to sysfs. Modifying the bonding driver to implement bonding_masters as a tagged file. Registering bonding_masters once for each network namespace. Then I am removing support for untagged entries in tagged sysfs directories. Resulting in code that is much easier to reason about. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 14 5月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
On some arches (x86, sh, arm, unicore, powerpc) the oops message would print out the last sysfs file accessed. This was very useful in finding a number of sysfs and driver core bugs in the 2.5 and early 2.6 development days, but it has been a number of years since this file has actually helped in debugging anything that couldn't also be trivially determined from the stack traceback. So it's time to delete the line. This is good as we need all the space we can get for oops messages at times on consoles. Acked-by: NPhil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- 04 9月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Dan Carpenter 提交于
d_path() returns an ERR_PTR and it doesn't return NULL. Signed-off-by: NDan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: N"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- 06 8月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Jean Delvare 提交于
sysfs_chmod_file doesn't change the attribute it operates on, so this attribute can be marked const. Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- 22 5月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
The problem. When implementing a network namespace I need to be able to have multiple network devices with the same name. Currently this is a problem for /sys/class/net/*, /sys/devices/virtual/net/*, and potentially a few other directories of the form /sys/ ... /net/*. What this patch does is to add an additional tag field to the sysfs dirent structure. For directories that should show different contents depending on the context such as /sys/class/net/, and /sys/devices/virtual/net/ this tag field is used to specify the context in which those directories should be visible. Effectively this is the same as creating multiple distinct directories with the same name but internally to sysfs the result is nicer. I am calling the concept of a single directory that looks like multiple directories all at the same path in the filesystem tagged directories. For the networking namespace the set of directories whose contents I need to filter with tags can depend on the presence or absence of hotplug hardware or which modules are currently loaded. Which means I need a simple race free way to setup those directories as tagged. To achieve a reace free design all tagged directories are created and managed by sysfs itself. Users of this interface: - define a type in the sysfs_tag_type enumeration. - call sysfs_register_ns_types with the type and it's operations - sysfs_exit_ns when an individual tag is no longer valid - Implement mount_ns() which returns the ns of the calling process so we can attach it to a sysfs superblock. - Implement ktype.namespace() which returns the ns of a syfs kobject. Everything else is left up to sysfs and the driver layer. For the network namespace mount_ns and namespace() are essentially one line functions, and look to remain that. Tags are currently represented a const void * pointers as that is both generic, prevides enough information for equality comparisons, and is trivial to create for current users, as it is just the existing namespace pointer. The work needed in sysfs is more extensive. At each directory or symlink creating I need to check if the directory it is being created in is a tagged directory and if so generate the appropriate tag to place on the sysfs_dirent. Likewise at each symlink or directory removal I need to check if the sysfs directory it is being removed from is a tagged directory and if so figure out which tag goes along with the name I am deleting. Currently only directories which hold kobjects, and symlinks are supported. There is not enough information in the current file attribute interfaces to give us anything to discriminate on which makes it useless, and there are no potential users which makes it an uninteresting problem to solve. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- 08 3月, 2010 4 次提交
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
If we exclude directories and symlinks from the set of sysfs dirents where we need active references we are left with sysfs attributes (binary or not). - Tweak sysfs_deactivate to only do something on attributes - Move lockdep initialization into sysfs_file_add_mode to limit it to just attributes. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: NWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
It turns out that holding an active reference on a directory is pointless. The purpose of the active references are to allows us to block when removing sysfs entries that have custom methods so we don't remove modules while running modular code and to keep those custom methods from accessing data structures after the files have been removed. Further sysfs_remove_dir remove all elements in the directory before removing the directory itself, so there is no chance we will remove a directory with active children. Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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由 Emese Revfy 提交于
Constify struct sysfs_ops. This is part of the ops structure constification effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al. Benefits of this constification: * prevents modification of data that is shared (referenced) by many other structure instances at runtime * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional) modification attempts on archs that enforce read-only kernel data at runtime * potentially better optimized code as the compiler can assume that the const data cannot be changed * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata and therefore exclude them from false sharing Signed-off-by: NEmese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> Acked-by: NDavid Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Acked-by: NMatt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Acked-by: NMaciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Acked-by: NHans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Acked-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Acked-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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由 Andi Kleen 提交于
Adding/Removing a whole array of attributes is very common. Add a standard utility function to do this with a simple function call, instead of requiring drivers to open code this. Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- 12 12月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Now that sysfs_getattr and sysfs_permission refresh the vfs inode there is no need to immediatly push the mode change into the vfs cache. Reducing the amount of work needed and simplifying the locking. Acked-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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由 Eric W. Biederman 提交于
Currently every caller of sysfs_chmod_file happens at either file creation time to set a non-default mode or in response to a specific user requested space change in policy. Making timestamps of when the chmod happens and notification of a file changing mode uninteresting. Remove the unnecessary time stamp and filesystem change notification, and removes the last of the explicit inotify and donitfy support from sysfs. Acked-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- 15 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Neil Brown 提交于
sysfs_notify_dirent is a simple atomic operation that can be used to alert user-space that new data can be read from a sysfs attribute. Unfortunately it cannot currently be called from non-process context because of its use of spin_lock which is sometimes taken with interrupts enabled. So change all lockers of sysfs_open_dirent_lock to disable interrupts, thus making sysfs_notify_dirent safe to be called from non-process context (as drivers/md does in md_safemode_timeout). sysfs_get_open_dirent is (documented as being) only called from process context, so it uses spin_lock_irq. Other places use spin_lock_irqsave. The usage for sysfs_notify_dirent in md_safemode_timeout was introduced in 2.6.28, so this patch is suitable for that and more recent kernels. Reported-by: NJoel Andres Granados <jgranado@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- 29 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Andrew Morton 提交于
We don't need a kernel thread per CPU for this application. Acked-by: NAlex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- 17 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 KOSAKI Motohiro 提交于
Currently, following test programs don't finished. % ruby -e ' Thread.new { sleep } File.read("/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies") ' strace expose the reason. ... open("/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbf9fa6b8) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl for device) fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 _llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0 select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [3]) read(3, "1400000 1300000 1200000 1100000 1"..., 4096) = 62 select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL Because Ruby (the scripting language) VM assume select system-call against regular file don't block. it because SUSv3 says "Regular files shall always poll TRUE for reading and writing". see http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/poll.html it seems valid assumption. But sysfs_poll() don't keep this rule although sysfs file can read and write always. This patch restore proper poll behavior to sysfs. /sys/block/md*/md/sync_action polling application and another sysfs updating sensitive application still can use POLLERR and POLLPRI. Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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