kernel.git/fs/sysfs/dir.c, branch linux-2.6.20.y

[PATCH] sysfs: store sysfs inode nrs in s_ino to avoid readdir oopses

2007-10-17T19:30:40Z

Backport of ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc1/2.6.22-rc1-mm1/broken-out/gregkh-driver-sysfs-allocate-inode-number-using-ida.patch For regular files in sysfs, sysfs_readdir wants to traverse sysfs_dirent->s_dentry->d_inode->i_ino to get to the inode number. But, the dentry can be reclaimed under memory pressure, and there is no synchronization with readdir. This patch follows Tejun's scheme of allocating and storing an inode number in the new s_ino member of a sysfs_dirent, when dirents are created, and retrieving it from there for readdir, so that the pointer chain doesn't have to be traversed. Tejun's upstream patch uses a new-ish "ida" allocator which brings along some extra complexity; this -stable patch has a brain-dead incrementing counter which does not guarantee uniqueness, but because sysfs doesn't hash inodes as iunique expects, uniqueness wasn't guaranteed today anyway. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] sysfs: change uses of f_{dentry, vfsmnt} to use f_path

2006-12-08T16:28:41Z

Change all the uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to f_path.{dentry,mnt} in the sysfs filesystem code. Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent.

2006-12-01T22:52:01Z

Provide a function device_move() to move a device to a new parent device. Add auxilliary functions kobject_move() and sysfs_move_dir(). kobject_move() generates a new uevent of type KOBJ_MOVE, containing the previous path (DEVPATH_OLD) in addition to the usual values. For this, a new interface kobject_uevent_env() is created that allows to add further environmental data to the uevent at the kobject layer. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck Acked-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] r/o bind mount prepwork: inc_nlink() helper

2006-10-01T07:39:30Z

This is mostly included for parity with dec_nlink(), where we will have some more hooks. This one should stay pretty darn straightforward for now. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sysfs: Make poll behaviour consistent

2006-09-26T04:08:36Z

When no events have been reported by sysfs_notify(), sd->s_events was previously set to zero. The initial value for new readers is also zero, so poll was blocking, regardless of whether the attribute was read by the process or not. Make poll behave consistently by setting the initial value of sd->s_events to non-zero. Signed-off-by: Juha Yrjola Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] core: use list_move()

2006-06-26T16:58:17Z

This patch converts the combination of list_del(A) and list_add(A, B) to list_move(A, B). Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Ram Pai Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] sysfs: Allow sysfs attribute files to be pollable

2006-04-14T18:41:24Z

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: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Documentation: fix minor kernel-doc warnings

2006-04-02T11:59:55Z

This patch updates the comments to match the actual code. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

[PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ const

2006-03-28T17:16:06Z

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: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] sysfs: don't export dir symbols

2006-03-20T21:42:59Z

These functions should only be used by the kobject core, and if any driver tries to use them, bad things happen. Unexport them to try to prevent this from happening. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman