linux-toradex.git/include/linux/sysfs.h, branch v2.6.20.21

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

2007-10-17T19:30:40+00:00

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

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

2006-12-01T22:52:01+00:00

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

sysfs: add proper sysfs_init() prototype

2006-09-26T04:08:39+00:00

Don't be crufty.  Mark it __must_check too.

Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

add __must_check to device management code

2006-09-26T04:08:39+00:00

We're getting a lot of crashes in the sysfs/kobject/device/bus/class code and
they're very hard to diagnose.

I'm suspecting that in some cases this is because drivers aren't checking
return values and aren't handling errors correctly.  So the code blithely
blunders on and crashes later in very obscure ways.

There's just no reason to ignore errors which can and do occur.  So the patch
sprinkles __must_check all over these APIs.

Causes 1,513 new warnings.  Heh.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs_remove_bin_file: no return value, dump_stack on error

2006-09-26T04:08:39+00:00

Make sysfs_remove_bin_file() void.  If it detects an error,
printk the file name and call dump_stack().

sysfs_hash_and_remove() now returns an error code indicating
its success or failure so that sysfs_remove_bin_file() can
know success/failure.

Convert the only driver that checked the return value of
sysfs_remove_bin_file().

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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

2006-04-14T18:41:24+00:00

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

[PATCH] sysfs-iattr: add sysfs_setattr

2005-06-20T22:15:37+00:00

o This adds ->i_op->setattr VFS method for sysfs inodes. The changed
  attribues are saved in the persistent sysfs_dirent structure as a pointer
  to struct iattr. The struct iattr is allocated only for those sysfs_dirent's
  for which default attributes are getting changed. Thanks to Jon Smirl for
  this suggestion.

Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] Make attributes names const char *

2005-06-20T22:15:01+00:00

sysfs: make attributes and attribute_group's names const char *

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] sysfs_{create|remove}_link should take const char *

2005-06-20T22:15:00+00:00

sysfs: make sysfs_{create|remove}_link to take const char * name.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] sysfs: add sysfs_chmod_file()

2005-04-19T04:57:32+00:00

sysfs: allow changing the permissions for already created attributes

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman