Tejun's commit 7b595756ec made sysfs
attribute->owner unnecessary. But the field was left in the structure to
ease the merge. It's been over a year since that change and it is now
time to start killing attribute->owner along with its users - one arch at
a time!
This patch is attempt #1 to get rid of attribute->owner only for
CONFIG_X86_64 or CONFIG_X86_32 . We will deal with other arches later on
as and when possible - avr32 will be the next since that is something I
can test. Compile (make allyesconfig / make allmodconfig / custom config)
and boot tested.
akpm: the idea is that we put the declaration of sttribute.owner inside
`#ifndef CONFIG_X86'. But that proved to be too ambitious for now because
new usages kept on turning up in subsystem trees.
[akpm: remove the ifdef for now]
Signed-off-by: Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It finally dawned on me what the clean fix to sysfs_rename_dir
calling kobject_set_name is. Move the work into kobject_rename
where it belongs. The callers serialize us anyway so this is
safe.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
When looking at kobject_rename I found two bugs with
that exist when sysfs support is disabled in the kernel.
kobject_rename does not change the name on the kobject when
sysfs support is not compiled in.
kobject_rename without locking attempts to check the
validity of a rename operation, which the kobject layer
simply does not have the infrastructure to do.
This patch documents the previously unstated requirement of
kobject_rename that is the responsibility of the caller to
provide mutual exclusion and to be certain that the new_name
for the kobject is valid.
This patch modifies sysfs_rename_dir in !CONFIG_SYSFS case
to call kobject_set_name to actually change the kobject_name.
This patch removes the bogus and misleading check in kobject_rename
that attempts to see if a rename is valid. The check is bogus
because we do not have the proper locking. The check is misleading
because it looks like we can and do perform checking at the kobject
level that we don't.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Because they can be, and because code like this produces a warning if
they're not:
struct device_attribute dev_attr;
sysfs_notify(&kobj, NULL, dev_attr.attr.name);
Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@freescale.com>
CC: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Print the name of the last-accessed sysfs file when we oops, to help track
down oopses which occur in sysfs store/read handlers. Because these oopses
tend to not leave any trace of the offending code in the stack traces.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().
Renaming network devices to an already existing name is not
something we want sysfs to print a scary warning for, since the
callers can deal with this correctly. So let's introduce
sysfs_create_link_nowarn() which gets rid of the common warning.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
x86.git testing found the following build failure on v2.6.26-rc1:
In file included from include/linux/kobject.h:22,
from include/linux/module.h:17,
from include/linux/crypto.h:22,
from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c:8,
from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:3:
include/linux/sysfs.h:201: error: redefinition of 'sysfs_update_group'
include/linux/sysfs.h:195: error: previous definition of 'sysfs_update_group' was here
make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1
make: *** [prepare0] Error 2
with the following config:
http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Sun_May__4_07_09_30_CEST_2008.bad
the reason for the build failure is the duplicate definition of the
sysfs_update_group() inline function in include/linux/sysfs.h.
The duplication was a merge error: it was added via -mm by commit
v2.6.25-7262-g2850699, "sysfs: sysfs_update_group stub for
CONFIG_SYSFS=n" a day before v2.6.26-rc1, but a day before that the same
commit was already merged upstream via the sysfs tree, with commit
v2.6.25-7211-g1cbfb7a.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
scsi_transport_spi uses sysfs_update_group() when CONFIG_SYSFS=n, so provide a
stub for it.
next-20080423/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.c:1467: error: implicit declaration of function 'sysfs_update_group'
make[3]: *** [drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.o] Error 1
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
scsi_transport_spi uses sysfs_update_group() when CONFIG_SYSFS=n,
so provide a stub for it.
next-20080423/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.c:1467: error: implicit declaration of function 'sysfs_update_group'
make[3]: *** [drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.o] Error 1
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We have a problem in scsi_transport_spi in that we need to customise
not only the visibility of the attributes, but also their mode. Fix
this by making the is_visible() callback return a mode, with 0
indicating is not visible.
Also add a sysfs_update_group() API to allow us to change either the
visibility or mode of the files at any time on the fly.
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Convert sysfs_remove_bin_file() to have a return type of 'void' for
!CONFIG_SYSFS configurations. Also removes unnecessary colons from empty
void functions.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch allows the various users of attribute_groups to selectively
allow the appearance of group attributes. The primary consumer of
this will be the transport classes in which we currently have
elaborate attribute selection algorithms to do this same thing.
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
sysfs_update_file() depends on inode->i_mtime but sysfs iondes are now
reclaimable making the reported modification time unreliable. There's
only one user (pci hotplug) of this notification mechanism and it
reportedly isn't utilized from userland.
Kill sysfs_update_file().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
sysfs is about to go through major overhaul making this a pretty good
opportunity to clean up (out-of-tree changes and pending patches will
need regeneration anyway). Clean up headers.
* Kill space between * and symbolname.
* Move SYSFS_* type constants and flags into fs/sysfs/sysfs.h.
They're internal to sysfs.
* Reformat function prototypes and add argument symbol names.
* Make dummy function definition order match that of function
prototypes.
* Add some comments.
* Reorganize fs/sysfs/sysfs.h according to which file the declared
variable or feature lives in.
This patch does not introduce any behavior change.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
While shadow directories appear to be a good idea, the current scheme
of controlling their creation and destruction outside of sysfs appears
to be a locking and maintenance nightmare in the face of sysfs
directories dynamically coming and going. Which can now occur for
directories containing network devices when CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is
not set.
This patch removes everything from the initial shadow directory support
that allowed the shadow directory creation to be controlled at a higher
level. So except for a few bits of sysfs_rename_dir everything from
commit b592fcfe7f is now gone.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Well, first of all, I don't want to change so many files either.
What I do:
Adding a new parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in the
.read/.write methods for the sysfs binary attributes.
In fact, only the four lines change in fs/sysfs/bin.c and
include/linux/sysfs.h do the real work.
But I have to update all the files that use binary attributes
to make them compatible with the new .read and .write methods.
I'm not sure if I missed any. :(
Why I do this:
For a sysfs attribute, we can get a pointer pointing to the
struct attribute in the .show/.store method,
while we can't do this for the binary attributes.
I don't know why this is different, but this does make it not
so handy to use the binary attributes as the regular ones.
So I think this patch is reasonable. :)
Who benefits from it:
The patch that exposes ACPI tables in sysfs
requires such an improvement.
All the table binary attributes share the same .read method.
Parameter "struct bin_attribute *" is used to get
the table signature and instance number which are used to
distinguish different ACPI table binary attributes.
Without this parameter, we need to offer different .read methods
for different ACPI table binary attributes.
This is impossible as there are various ACPI tables on different
platforms, and we don't know what they are until they are loaded.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch makes dentries and inodes for sysfs directories
reclaimable.
* sysfs_notify() is modified to walk sysfs_dirent tree instead of
dentry tree.
* sysfs_update_file() and sysfs_chmod_file() use sysfs_get_dentry() to
grab the victim dentry.
* sysfs_rename_dir() and sysfs_move_dir() grab all dentries using
sysfs_get_dentry() on startup.
* Dentries for all shadowed directories are pinned in memory to serve
as lookup start point.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
As kobj sysfs dentries and inodes are gonna be made reclaimable,
dentry can't be used as naming token for sysfs file/directory, replace
kobj->dentry with kobj->sd. The only external interface change is
shadow directory handling. All other changes are contained in kobj
and sysfs.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Implement SYSFS_FLAG_REMOVED flag which currently is used only to
improve sanity check in sysfs_deactivate(). The flag will be used to
make directory entries reclamiable.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Rename sysfs_dirent->s_type to s_flags, pack type into lower eight
bits and reserve the rest for flags. sysfs_type() can used to access
the type. All existing sd->s_type accesses are converted to use
sysfs_type(). While at it, type test is changed to equality test
instead of bit-and test where appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game. After
deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper,
so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners. Note that
often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to
accessing removed modules.
This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner. Note that with
this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the
backing module from being unloaded.
For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the
following message.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293
(tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to
merge things properly.)
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add s_name to sysfs_dirent. This is to further reduce dependency to
the associated dentry. Name is copied for directories and symlinks
but not for attributes.
Where possible, name dereferences are converted to use sd->s_name.
sysfs_symlink->link_name and sysfs_get_name() are unused now and
removed.
This change allows symlink to be implemented using sysfs_dirent tree
proper, which is the last remaining dentry-dependent sysfs walk.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as896b) fixes an oversight in the design of
device_schedule_callback(). It is necessary to acquire a reference to the
module owning the callback routine, to prevent the module from being
unloaded before the callback can run.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
