1. 23 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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      kfifo: move struct kfifo in place · 45465487
      Stefani Seibold 提交于
      This is a new generic kernel FIFO implementation.
      
      The current kernel fifo API is not very widely used, because it has to
      many constrains.  Only 17 files in the current 2.6.31-rc5 used it.
      FIFO's are like list's a very basic thing and a kfifo API which handles
      the most use case would save a lot of development time and memory
      resources.
      
      I think this are the reasons why kfifo is not in use:
      
       - The API is to simple, important functions are missing
       - A fifo can be only allocated dynamically
       - There is a requirement of a spinlock whether you need it or not
       - There is no support for data records inside a fifo
      
      So I decided to extend the kfifo in a more generic way without blowing up
      the API to much.  The new API has the following benefits:
      
       - Generic usage: For kernel internal use and/or device driver.
       - Provide an API for the most use case.
       - Slim API: The whole API provides 25 functions.
       - Linux style habit.
       - DECLARE_KFIFO, DEFINE_KFIFO and INIT_KFIFO Macros
       - Direct copy_to_user from the fifo and copy_from_user into the fifo.
       - The kfifo itself is an in place member of the using data structure, this save an
         indirection access and does not waste the kernel allocator.
       - Lockless access: if only one reader and one writer is active on the fifo,
         which is the common use case, no additional locking is necessary.
       - Remove spinlock - give the user the freedom of choice what kind of locking to use if
         one is required.
       - Ability to handle records. Three type of records are supported:
         - Variable length records between 0-255 bytes, with a record size
           field of 1 bytes.
         - Variable length records between 0-65535 bytes, with a record size
           field of 2 bytes.
         - Fixed size records, which no record size field.
       - Preserve memory resource.
       - Performance!
       - Easy to use!
      
      This patch:
      
      Since most users want to have the kfifo as part of another object,
      reorganize the code to allow including struct kfifo in another data
      structure.  This requires changing the kfifo_alloc and kfifo_init
      prototypes so that we pass an existing kfifo pointer into them.  This
      patch changes the implementation and all existing users.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
      Signed-off-by: NStefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
      Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      Acked-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      45465487
  2. 17 12月, 2009 1 次提交
  3. 16 12月, 2009 2 次提交
  4. 15 12月, 2009 2 次提交
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      USB: Close usb_find_interface race v3 · c2d284ee
      Russ Dill 提交于
      USB drivers that create character devices call usb_register_dev in their
      probe function. This associates the usb_interface device with that minor
      number and creates the character device and announces it to the world.
      However, the driver's probe function is called before the new
      usb_interface is added to the driver's klist_devices.
      
      This is a problem because userspace will respond to the character device
      creation announcement by opening the character device. The driver's open
      function will the call usb_find_interface to find the usb_interface
      associated with that minor number. usb_find_interface will walk the
      driver's list of devices and find the usb_interface with the matching
      minor number.
      
      Because the announcement happens before the usb_interface is added to the
      driver's klist_devices, a race condition exists. A straightforward fix
      is to walk the list of devices on usb_bus_type instead since the device
      is added to that list before the announcement occurs.
      
      bus_find_device calls get_device to bump the reference count on the found
      device. It is arguable that the reference count should be dropped by the
      caller of usb_find_interface instead of usb_find_interface, however,
      the current users of usb_find_interface do not expect this.
      
      The original version of this patch only matched against minor number
      instead of driver and minor number. This version matches against both.
      Signed-off-by: NRuss Dill <Russ.Dill@gmail.com>
      Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      c2d284ee
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      Revert "USB: Close usb_find_interface race" · ab7cd8c7
      Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
      This reverts commit a2582bd4.
      
      It turned out to be buggy and broke USB printers from working.
      
      Cc: Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@gmail.com>
      Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      ab7cd8c7
  5. 14 12月, 2009 2 次提交
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