linux-toradex.git/drivers/base/core.c, branch v3.15-rc1

Revert "sysfs, driver-core: remove unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner()"

2014-03-26T03:54:57+00:00

This reverts commit d1ba277e79889085a2faec3b68b91ce89c63f888.

As reported by Stephen, this patch breaks linux-next as a ppc patch
suddenly (after 2 years) started using this old api call.  So revert it
for now, it will go away in 3.15-rc2 when we can change the PPC call to
the new api.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Stewart Smith 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "driver core: synchronize device shutdown"

2014-03-09T06:08:29+00:00

This reverts commit 401097ea4b89846d66ac78f7f108d49c2e922d9c.  The
original changelog said:

    A patch series to make .shutdown execute asynchronously.  Some drivers's
    shutdown can take a lot of time.  The patches can help save some shutdown
    time.  The patches use Arjan's async API.

    This patch:

    synchronize all tasks submitted by .shutdown

However, I'm not able to find any evidence that any other patches from
this series were applied, nor am I able to find any async tasks that are
scheduled in a .shutdown context.

On the other hand, we see occasional hangs on shutdown that appear to be
caused by the async_synchronize_full() in device_shutdown() waiting
forever for the async probing in sd if a SCSI disk shows up at just the
wrong time — the system starts the probe, but begins shutting down and
tears down too much of the SCSI driver to finish the probe.

If we had any async shutdown tasks, I guess the right fix would be to
create a "shutdown" async domain and have device_shutdown() only wait
for that domain.  But since there apparently are no async shutdown
tasks, we can just revert the waiting.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: unexport static function create_syslog_header

2014-02-15T19:38:36+00:00

Function create_syslog_header() is defined as static, so it should
not be exported.

Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs, driver-core: remove unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner()

2014-02-07T23:42:41+00:00

All device_schedule_callback_owner() users are converted to use
device_remove_file_self().  Remove now unused
{sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kernfs, sysfs, driver-core: implement kernfs_remove_self() and its wrappers

2014-02-07T23:42:41+00:00

Sometimes it's necessary to implement a node which wants to delete
nodes including itself.  This isn't straightforward because of kernfs
active reference.  While a file operation is in progress, an active
reference is held and kernfs_remove() waits for all such references to
drain before completing.  For a self-deleting node, this is a deadlock
as kernfs_remove() ends up waiting for an active reference that itself
is sitting on top of.

This currently is worked around in the sysfs layer using
sysfs_schedule_callback() which makes such removals asynchronous.
While it works, it's rather cumbersome and inherently breaks
synchronicity of the operation - the file operation which triggered
the operation may complete before the removal is finished (or even
started) and the removal may fail asynchronously.  If a removal
operation is immmediately followed by another operation which expects
the specific name to be available (e.g. removal followed by rename
onto the same name), there's no way to make the latter operation
reliable.

The thing is there's no inherent reason for this to be asynchrnous.
All that's necessary to do this synchronous is a dedicated operation
which drops its own active ref and deactivates self.  This patch
implements kernfs_remove_self() and its wrappers in sysfs and driver
core.  kernfs_remove_self() is to be called from one of the file
operations, drops the active ref the task is holding, removes the self
node, and restores active ref to the dead node so that the ref is
balanced afterwards.  __kernfs_remove() is updated so that it takes an
early exit if the target node is already fully removed so that the
active ref restored by kernfs_remove_self() after removal doesn't
confuse the deactivation path.

This makes implementing self-deleting nodes very easy.  The normal
removal path doesn't even need to be changed to use
kernfs_remove_self() for the self-deleting node.  The method can
invoke kernfs_remove_self() on itself before proceeding the normal
removal path.  kernfs_remove() invoked on the node by the normal
deletion path will simply be ignored.

This will replace sysfs_schedule_callback().  A subtle feature of
sysfs_schedule_callback() is that it collapses multiple invocations -
even if multiple removals are triggered, the removal callback is run
only once.  An equivalent effect can be achieved by testing the return
value of kernfs_remove_self() - only the one which gets %true return
value should proceed with actual deletion.  All other instances of
kernfs_remove_self() will wait till the enclosing kernfs operation
which invoked the winning instance of kernfs_remove_self() finishes
and then return %false.  This trivially makes all users of
kernfs_remove_self() automatically show correct synchronous behavior
even when there are multiple concurrent operations - all "echo 1 >
delete" instances will finish only after the whole operation is
completed by one of the instances.

Note that manipulation of active ref is implemented in separate public
functions - kernfs_[un]break_active_protection().
kernfs_remove_self() is the only user at the moment but this will be
used to cater to more complex cases.

v2: For !CONFIG_SYSFS, dummy version kernfs_remove_self() was missing
    and sysfs_remove_file_self() had incorrect return type.  Fix it.
    Reported by kbuild test bot.

v3: kernfs_[un]break_active_protection() separated out from
    kernfs_remove_self() and exposed as public API.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Alan Stern 
Cc: kbuild test robot 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "kernfs, sysfs, driver-core: implement kernfs_remove_self() and its wrappers"

2014-01-13T22:05:13+00:00

This reverts commit 1ae06819c77cff1ea2833c94f8c093fe8a5c79db.

Tejun writes:
        I'm sorry but can you please revert the whole series?
        get_active() waiting while a node is deactivated has potential
        to lead to deadlock and that deactivate/reactivate interface is
        something fundamentally flawed and that cgroup will have to work
        with the remove_self() like everybody else.  IOW, I think the
        first posting was correct.

Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Alan Stern 
Cc: kbuild test robot 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "sysfs, driver-core: remove unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner()"

2014-01-13T21:51:36+00:00

This reverts commit d1ba277e79889085a2faec3b68b91ce89c63f888.

Tejun writes:
        I'm sorry but can you please revert the whole series?
        get_active() waiting while a node is deactivated has potential
        to lead to deadlock and that deactivate/reactivate interface is
        something fundamentally flawed and that cgroup will have to work
        with the remove_self() like everybody else.  IOW, I think the
        first posting was correct.

Cc: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs, driver-core: remove unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner()

2014-01-11T00:03:19+00:00

All device_schedule_callback_owner() users are converted to use
device_remove_file_self().  Remove now unused
{sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kernfs, sysfs, driver-core: implement kernfs_remove_self() and its wrappers

2014-01-10T22:01:05+00:00

Sometimes it's necessary to implement a node which wants to delete
nodes including itself.  This isn't straightforward because of kernfs
active reference.  While a file operation is in progress, an active
reference is held and kernfs_remove() waits for all such references to
drain before completing.  For a self-deleting node, this is a deadlock
as kernfs_remove() ends up waiting for an active reference that itself
is sitting on top of.

This currently is worked around in the sysfs layer using
sysfs_schedule_callback() which makes such removals asynchronous.
While it works, it's rather cumbersome and inherently breaks
synchronicity of the operation - the file operation which triggered
the operation may complete before the removal is finished (or even
started) and the removal may fail asynchronously.  If a removal
operation is immmediately followed by another operation which expects
the specific name to be available (e.g. removal followed by rename
onto the same name), there's no way to make the latter operation
reliable.

The thing is there's no inherent reason for this to be asynchrnous.
All that's necessary to do this synchronous is a dedicated operation
which drops its own active ref and deactivates self.  This patch
implements kernfs_remove_self() and its wrappers in sysfs and driver
core.  kernfs_remove_self() is to be called from one of the file
operations, drops the active ref and deactivates using
__kernfs_deactivate_self(), removes the self node, and restores active
ref to the dead node using __kernfs_reactivate_self() so that the ref
is balanced afterwards.  __kernfs_remove() is updated so that it takes
an early exit if the target node is already fully removed so that the
active ref restored by kernfs_remove_self() after removal doesn't
confuse the deactivation path.

This makes implementing self-deleting nodes very easy.  The normal
removal path doesn't even need to be changed to use
kernfs_remove_self() for the self-deleting node.  The method can
invoke kernfs_remove_self() on itself before proceeding the normal
removal path.  kernfs_remove() invoked on the node by the normal
deletion path will simply be ignored.

This will replace sysfs_schedule_callback().  A subtle feature of
sysfs_schedule_callback() is that it collapses multiple invocations -
even if multiple removals are triggered, the removal callback is run
only once.  An equivalent effect can be achieved by testing the return
value of kernfs_remove_self() - only the one which gets %true return
value should proceed with actual deletion.  All other instances of
kernfs_remove_self() will wait till the enclosing kernfs operation
which invoked the winning instance of kernfs_remove_self() finishes
and then return %false.  This trivially makes all users of
kernfs_remove_self() automatically show correct synchronous behavior
even when there are multiple concurrent operations - all "echo 1 >
delete" instances will finish only after the whole operation is
completed by one of the instances.

v2: For !CONFIG_SYSFS, dummy version kernfs_remove_self() was missing
    and sysfs_remove_file_self() had incorrect return type.  Fix it.
    Reported by kbuild test bot.

v3: Updated to use __kernfs_{de|re}activate_self().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Alan Stern 
Cc: kbuild test robot 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver core: Fix device_add_attrs() error code path

2013-12-18T23:50:16+00:00

If the addition of dev_attr_online fails, device_add_attrs() should
remove device attribute groups as well as type and class attribute
groups before returning an error code.  Make that happen.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Acked-by: Toshi Kani 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman