linux-toradex.git/drivers/char/misc.c, branch v6.7-rc1

char: misc: make misc_class a static const structure

2023-06-23T08:27:15+00:00

Now that the driver core allows for struct class to be in read-only
memory, move the misc_class structure to be declared at build time
placing it into read-only memory, instead of having to be dynamically
allocated at load time.

Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Ivan Orlov 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230620143751.578239-14-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: class: remove module * from class_create()

2023-03-17T14:16:33+00:00

The module pointer in class_create() never actually did anything, and it
shouldn't have been requred to be set as a parameter even if it did
something.  So just remove it and fix up all callers of the function in
the kernel tree at the same time.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313181843.1207845-4-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'driver-core-6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2022-12-16T11:54:54+00:00

Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the set of driver core and kernfs changes for 6.2-rc1.

  The "big" change in here is the addition of a new macro,
  container_of_const() that will preserve the "const-ness" of a pointer
  passed into it.

  The "problem" of the current container_of() macro is that if you pass
  in a "const *", out of it can comes a non-const pointer unless you
  specifically ask for it. For many usages, we want to preserve the
  "const" attribute by using the same call. For a specific example, this
  series changes the kobj_to_dev() macro to use it, allowing it to be
  used no matter what the const value is. This prevents every subsystem
  from having to declare 2 different individual macros (i.e.
  kobj_const_to_dev() and kobj_to_dev()) and having the compiler enforce
  the const value at build time, which having 2 macros would not do
  either.

  The driver for all of this have been discussions with the Rust kernel
  developers as to how to properly mark driver core, and kobject,
  objects as being "non-mutable". The changes to the kobject and driver
  core in this pull request are the result of that, as there are lots of
  paths where kobjects and device pointers are not modified at all, so
  marking them as "const" allows the compiler to enforce this.

  So, a nice side affect of the Rust development effort has been already
  to clean up the driver core code to be more obvious about object
  rules.

  All of this has been bike-shedded in quite a lot of detail on lkml
  with different names and implementations resulting in the tiny version
  we have in here, much better than my original proposal. Lots of
  subsystem maintainers have acked the changes as well.

  Other than this change, included in here are smaller stuff like:

   - kernfs fixes and updates to handle lock contention better

   - vmlinux.lds.h fixes and updates

   - sysfs and debugfs documentation updates

   - device property updates

  All of these have been in the linux-next tree for quite a while with
  no problems"

* tag 'driver-core-6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (58 commits)
  device property: Fix documentation for fwnode_get_next_parent()
  firmware_loader: fix up to_fw_sysfs() to preserve const
  usb.h: take advantage of container_of_const()
  device.h: move kobj_to_dev() to use container_of_const()
  container_of: add container_of_const() that preserves const-ness of the pointer
  driver core: fix up missed drivers/s390/char/hmcdrv_dev.c class.devnode() conversion.
  driver core: fix up missed scsi/cxlflash class.devnode() conversion.
  driver core: fix up some missing class.devnode() conversions.
  driver core: make struct class.devnode() take a const *
  driver core: make struct class.dev_uevent() take a const *
  cacheinfo: Remove of_node_put() for fw_token
  device property: Add a blank line in Kconfig of tests
  device property: Rename goto label to be more precise
  device property: Move PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL() a bit down
  device property: Get rid of __PROPERTY_ENTRY_ARRAY_EL*SIZE*()
  kernfs: fix all kernel-doc warnings and multiple typos
  driver core: pass a const * into of_device_uevent()
  kobject: kset_uevent_ops: make name() callback take a const *
  kobject: kset_uevent_ops: make filter() callback take a const *
  kobject: make kobject_namespace take a const *
  ...

driver core: make struct class.devnode() take a const *

2022-11-24T16:12:27+00:00

The devnode() in struct class should not be modifying the device that is
passed into it, so mark it as a const * and propagate the function
signature changes out into all relevant subsystems that use this
callback.

Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: Reinette Chatre 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Justin Sanders 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Sumit Semwal 
Cc: Benjamin Gaignard 
Cc: Liam Mark 
Cc: Laura Abbott 
Cc: Brian Starkey 
Cc: John Stultz 
Cc: "Christian König" 
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst 
Cc: Maxime Ripard 
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann 
Cc: David Airlie 
Cc: Daniel Vetter 
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe 
Cc: Leon Romanovsky 
Cc: Dennis Dalessandro 
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov 
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Cc: Sean Young 
Cc: Frank Haverkamp 
Cc: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" 
Cc: Jason Wang 
Cc: Alex Williamson 
Cc: Cornelia Huck 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Anton Vorontsov 
Cc: Colin Cross 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela 
Cc: Takashi Iwai 
Cc: Hans Verkuil 
Cc: Christophe JAILLET 
Cc: Xie Yongji 
Cc: Gautam Dawar 
Cc: Dan Carpenter 
Cc: Eli Cohen 
Cc: Parav Pandit 
Cc: Maxime Coquelin 
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123122523.1332370-2-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

char: misc: Increase the maximum number of dynamic misc devices to 1048448

2022-11-23T18:57:38+00:00

On AmpereOne, 128 dynamic misc devices is not enough for the per-cpu
coresight_tmc devices.  Switch the dynamic minors allocator to an ida and
add logic to allocate in the ranges [0..127] and [256..1048575], leaving
[128..255] for static misc devices.  Dynamic allocations start from 127
growing downwards and then increasing from 256, so device numbering for the
first 128 devices remain the same as before.

Signed-off-by: D Scott Phillips 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221114212212.9279-1-scott@os.amperecomputing.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

char: misc: remove usage of list iterator past the loop body

2022-04-24T15:15:12+00:00

In preparation to limit the scope of the list iterator to the list
traversal loop, use a dedicated pointer pointing to the found element [1].

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/YhdfEIwI4EdtHdym@kroah.com/
Signed-off-by: Jakob Koschel 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220319201454.2511733-1-jakobkoschel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

char: misc: increase DYNAMIC_MINORS value

2020-11-03T08:52:04+00:00

DYNAMIC_MINORS value has been set to 64.
Due to this reason, we are facing a module loading fail problem of
device driver like below.

 [   45.712771] pdic_misc_init - return error : -16

We need to increase this value for registering more misc devices.

Signed-off-by: Sangmoon Kim 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201029062855.19757-1-sangmoon.kim@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

char: misc: Move EXPORT_SYMBOL immediately next to the functions/varibles

2019-05-24T16:00:41+00:00

According to checkpatch: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its
function/variable.

This patch fixes the following checkpatch.pl issues in drivers/char/misc.c:
WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable

Signed-off-by: Naveen Kumar Parna 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

proc: introduce proc_create_seq{,_data}

2018-05-16T05:23:35+00:00

Variants of proc_create{,_data} that directly take a struct seq_operations
argument and drastically reduces the boilerplate code in the callers.

All trivial callers converted over.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart 
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman