With the shadow directories gone, sysfs_rename_dir() can be simplified.
* parent doesn't need to be grabbed separately. Just access
old_dentry->d_parent.
* parent sd can never change. Remove code to move under the new
parent.
* Massage comments a bit.
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>
* remove space between * and symbol name in variable declaration.
* kill unnecessary new line.
* kill 'found' and test 'sd' instead.
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>
A number of different drivers incorrect access the kobject name field
directly. This is not correct as the name might not be in the array.
Use the proper accessor function instead.
sd children list walking in sysfs_lookup() and sd renaming in
sysfs_rename_dir() were left out during i_mutex -> sysfs_mutex
conversion. Fix them.
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>
Node addition failure is detected by testing return value of
sysfs_addfm_finish() which returns the number of added and removed
nodes. As the function is called as the last step of addition right
on top of error handling block, the if blocks looked like the
following.
if (sysfs_addrm_finish(&acxt))
success handling, usually return;
/* fall through to error handling */
This is the opposite of usual convention in sysfs and makes the code
difficult to understand. This patch inverts the test and makes those
blocks look more like others.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Cc: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
kmem_cache_free() with NULL is not allowed. But it may happen
if out of memory error is triggered in sysfs_new_dirent().
This patch fixes that error handling.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.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>
Some sysfs operations require dentry and inode. sysfs_get_dentry()
looks up and gets dentry for the specified sysfs_dirent. It finds the
first ancestor with dentry attached and starts looking up dentries
from there.
Looking up from the nearest ancestor is necessary to support shadowed
directories because we can't reliably lookup dentry for one of the
shadows. Dentries for each shadow will be pinned in memory such that
they can serve as the starting point for dentry lookup.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
After add/remove path restructuring, the only user of
sysfs_drop_dentry() is sysfs_addrm_finish(). Move sysfs_drop_dentry()
to dir.c and make it static.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The original add/remove code had the following problems.
* parent's timestamps are updated on dentry instantiation. this is
incorrect with reclaimable files.
* updating parent's timestamps isn't synchronized.
* parent nlink update assumes the inode is accessible which won't be
true once directory dentries are made reclaimable.
This patch restructures add/remove paths to resolve the above
problems. Add/removal are done in the following steps.
1. sysfs_addrm_start() : acquire locks including sysfs_mutex and other
resources.
2-a. sysfs_add_one() : add new sd. linking the new sd into the
children list is caller's responsibility.
2-b. sysfs_remove_one() : remove a sd. unlinking the sd from the
children list is caller's responsibility.
3. sysfs_addrm_finish() : release all resources and clean up.
Steps 2-a and/or 2-b can be repeated multiple times.
Parent's inode is looked up during sysfs_addrm_start(). If available
(always at the moment), it's pinned and nlink is updated as sd's are
added and removed. Timestamps are updated during finish if any sd has
been added or removed. If parent's inode is not available during
start, sysfs_mutex ensures that parent inode is not created till
add/remove is complete.
All the complexity is contained inside the helper functions.
Especially, dentry/inode handling is properly hidden from the rest of
sysfs which now mostly operate on sysfs_dirents. As an added bonus,
codes which use these helpers to add and remove sysfs_dirents are now
more structured and simpler.
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,
i_mutex can't be used to protect sysfs_dirent tree. Use sysfs_mutex
globally instead. As the whole tree is protected with sysfs_mutex,
there is no reason to keep sysfs_rename_sem. Drop it.
While at it, add docbook comments to functions which require
sysfs_mutex locking.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Replace sysfs_lock and kobj_sysfs_assoc_lock with sysfs_assoc_lock.
sysfs_lock was originally to be used to protect sysfs_dirent tree but
mutex seems better choice, so there is no reason to keep sysfs_lock
separate. Merge the two spinlocks into one.
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_find_dirent() and sysfs_get_dirent().
sysfs_dirent_exist() is replaced by sysfs_find_dirent(). These 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>
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>
Make sysfs_dirent use singly linked list for its tree structure.
sysfs_link_sibling() and sysfs_unlink_sibling() functions are added to
handle simpler cases. It adds some complexity and cpu cycle overhead
but reduced memory footprint is worthwhile on big machines.
This change reduces the sizeof sysfs_dirent from 104 to 88 on 64bit
and from 60 to 52 on 32bit.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Make sysfs_dirent->s_active an atomic_t instead of rwsem. This
reduces the size of sysfs_dirent from 136 to 104 on 64bit and from 76
to 60 on 32bit with lock debugging turned off. With lock debugging
turned on the reduction is much larger.
s_active starts at zero and each active reference increments s_active.
Putting a reference decrements s_active. Deactivation subtracts
SD_DEACTIVATED_BIAS which is currently INT_MIN and assumed to be small
enough to make s_active negative. If s_active is negative,
sysfs_get() no longer grants new references. Deactivation succeeds
immediately if there is no active user; otherwise, it waits using a
completion for the last put.
Due to the removal of lockdep tricks, this change makes things less
trickier in release_sysfs_dirent(). As all the complexity is
contained in three s_active functions, I think it's more readable this
way.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
These functions are about to receive more complexity and doesn't
really need to be inlined in the first place. Move them from
fs/sysfs/sysfs.h to fs/sysfs/dir.c.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
After dentry is reclaimed, sysfs always used to allocate new dentry
and inode if the file is accessed again. This causes problem with
operations which only pin the inode. For example, if inotify watch is
added to a sysfs file and the dentry for the file is reclaimed, the
next update event creates new dentry and new inode making the inotify
watch miss all the events from there on.
This patch fixes it by using iget_locked() instead of new_inode().
sysfs_new_inode() is renamed to sysfs_get_inode() and inode is
initialized iff the inode is newly allocated. sysfs_instantiate() is
responsible for unlocking new inodes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Reorganize/clean up sysfs_new_inode() and sysfs_create().
* sysfs_init_inode() is separated out from sysfs_new_inode() and is
responsible for basic initialization.
* sysfs_instantiate() replaces the last step of sysfs_create() and is
responsible for dentry instantitaion.
* type-specific initialization is moved out to the callers.
* mode is specified only once when creating a sysfs_dirent.
* spurious list_del_init(&sd->s_sibling) dropped from create_dir()
This change is to
* prepare for inode allocation fix.
* separate alloc and init code for synchronization update.
* make dentry/inode initialization more flexible for later changes.
This patch doesn't introduce visible behavior change.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
sysfs_alloc_ino() isn't used out side of fs/sysfs/dir.c. Make it
static.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch reimplements sysfs_drop_dentry() such that remove_dir() can
use it to drop dentry instead of using a separate mechanism. With
this change, making directories reclaimable is much easier.
This patch used to contain fixes for two race conditions around
sd->s_dentry but that part has been separated out and included into
mainline early as commit 6aa054aadf and
dd14cbc994.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Consolidate sd <-> dentry association into sysfs_attach_dentry() and
call it after dentry and inode are properly set up. This is in
preparation of sysfs_drop_dentry() updates.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
sysfs: implement sysfs_dirent active reference and immediate disconnect
Opening a sysfs node references its associated kobject, so userland
can arbitrarily prolong lifetime of a kobject which complicates
lifetime rules in drivers. This patch implements active reference and
makes the association between kobject and sysfs immediately breakable.
Now each sysfs_dirent has two reference counts - s_count and s_active.
s_count is a regular reference count which guarantees that the
containing sysfs_dirent is accessible. As long as s_count reference
is held, all sysfs internal fields in sysfs_dirent are accessible
including s_parent and s_name.
The newly added s_active is active reference count. This is acquired
by invoking sysfs_get_active() and it's the caller's responsibility to
ensure sysfs_dirent itself is accessible (should be holding s_count
one way or the other). Dereferencing sysfs_dirent to access objects
out of sysfs proper requires active reference. This includes access
to the associated kobjects, attributes and ops.
The active references can be drained and denied by calling
sysfs_deactivate(). All active sysfs_dirents must be deactivated
after deletion but before the default reference is dropped. This
enables immediate disconnect of sysfs nodes. Once a sysfs_dirent is
deleted, it won't access any entity external to sysfs proper.
Because attr/bin_attr ops access both the node itself and its parent
for kobject, they need to hold active references to both.
sysfs_get/put_active_two() helpers are provided to help grabbing both
references. Parent's is acquired first and released last.
Unlike other operations, mmapped area lingers on after mmap() is
finished and the module implement implementing it and kobj need to
stay referenced till all the mapped pages are gone. This is
accomplished by holding one set of active references to the bin_attr
and its parent if there have been any mmap during lifetime of an
openfile. The references are dropped when the openfile is released.
This change makes sysfs lifetime rules independent from both kobject's
and module's. It not only fixes several race conditions caused by
sysfs not holding onto the proper module when referencing kobject, but
also helps fixing and simplifying lifetime management in driver model
and drivers by taking sysfs out of the equation.
Please read the following message for more info.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
sysfs symlink is implemented by referencing dentry and kobject from
sysfs_dirent - symlink entry references kobject, dentry is used to
walk the tree. This complicates object lifetimes rules and is
dangerous - for example, there is no way to tell to which module the
target of a symlink belongs and referencing that kobject can make it
linger after the module is gone.
This patch reimplements symlink using only sysfs_dirent tree. sd for
a symlink points and holds reference to the target sysfs_dirent and
all walking is done using sysfs_dirent tree. Simpler and safer.
Please read the following message for more info.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
kobj->dentry can go away anytime unless the user controls when the
associated sysfs node is deleted. This patch implements
kobj_sysfs_assoc_lock which protects kobj->dentry. This will be used
to maintain kobj based API when converting sysfs to use sysfs_dirent
tree instead of dentry/kobject.
Note that this lock belongs to kobject/driver-model not sysfs. Once
sysfs is converted to not use kobject in its interface, this can be
removed from sysfs.
This is in preparation of object reference simplification.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Make sd->s_element a union of sysfs_elem_{dir|symlink|attr|bin_attr}
and rename it to s_elem. This is to achieve...
* some level of type checking : changing symlink to point to
sysfs_dirent instead of kobject is much safer and less painful now.
* easier / standardized dereferencing
* allow sysfs_elem_* to contain more than one entry
Where possible, pointer is obtained by directly deferencing from sd
instead of going through other entities. This reduces dependencies to
dentry, inode and kobject. to_attr() and to_bin_attr() are unused now
and removed.
This is in preparation of object reference simplification.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
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>
Add sysfs_dirent->s_parent. With this patch, each sd points to and
holds a reference to its parent. This allows walking sysfs tree
without referencing sd->s_dentry which can go away anytime if the user
doesn't control when it's deleted.
sd->s_parent is initialized and parent is referenced in
sysfs_attach_dirent(). Reference to parent is released when the sd is
released, so as long as reference to a sd is held, s_parent can be
followed.
dentry walk in sysfs_readdir() is convereted to s_parent walk.
This will be used to reimplement symlink such that it uses only
sysfs_dirent tree.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Currently there are four functions to create sysfs_dirent -
__sysfs_new_dirent(), sysfs_new_dirent(), __sysfs_make_dirent() and
sysfs_make_dirent(). Other than sysfs_make_dirent(), no function has
two users if calls to implement other functions are excluded.
This patch consolidates sysfs_dirent creation functions into the
following two.
* sysfs_new_dirent() : allocate and initialize
* sysfs_attach_dirent() : attach to sysfs_dirent hierarchy and/or
associate with dentry
This simplifies interface and gives callers more flexibility. This is
in preparation of object reference simplification.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Error handling in sysfs_rename_dir() was broken.
* When lookup_one_len() fails, 0 is returned.
* If parent inode check fails, returns with inode mutex and rename
rwsem held.
This patch fixes the above bugs and flattens error handling such that
it's more readable and easier to modify.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Flatten cleanup paths in sysfs_add_link() and create_dir() to improve
readability and ease further changes to these functions. This is in
preparation of object reference simplification.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
sysfs used simple incrementing allocator which is not guaranteed to be
unique. This patch makes sysfs use ida to give each sd a unique and
packed inode number.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
There is no reason this function should be inlined and soon to follow
sysfs object reference simplification will make it heavier. Move it
to dir.c.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Allowing attribute and symlink dentries to be reclaimed means
sd->s_dentry can change dynamically. However, updates to the field
are unsynchronized leading to race conditions. This patch adds
sysfs_lock and use it to synchronize updates to sd->s_dentry.
Due to the locking around ->d_iput, the check in sysfs_drop_dentry()
is complex. sysfs_lock only protect sd->s_dentry pointer itself. The
validity of the dentry is protected by dcache_lock, so whether dentry
is alive or not can only be tested while holding both locks.
This is minimal backport of sysfs_drop_dentry() rewrite in devel
branch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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 <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Any attempt to open/use a bluetooth rfcomm device locks up
scheduling completely on my machine.
Interrupts (ping, alt-sysrq) seem to be alive, but nothing else.
This was working fine in 2.6.20, broken now in 2.6.21-rc2-git*
Reverting this change (below) fixes it:
| author Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
| Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:58:57 +0000 (23:58 +0100)
| committer David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>
| Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:42:41 +0000 (11:42 -0800)
| commit c1a3313698
| tree 337a876f72 tree | snapshot
| parent f5ffd4620a commit | diff
| | [Bluetooth] Make use of device_move() for RFCOMM TTY devices
| | In the case of bound RFCOMM TTY devices the parent is not available
| before its usage. So when opening a RFCOMM TTY device, move it to
| the corresponding ACL device as a child. When closing the device,
| move it back to the virtual device tree.
| Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
The simplest fix for this bug is to prevent sysfs_move_dir()
from self-deadlocking when (old_parent == new_parent).
This patch prevents total system lockup when using rfcomm devices.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Many struct inode_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Replace appropriate pairs of "kmem_cache_alloc()" + "memset(0)" with the
corresponding "kmem_cache_zalloc()" call.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The problem. When implementing a network namespace I need to be able
to have multiple network devices with the same name. Currently this
is a problem for /sys/class/net/*.
What I want is a separate /sys/class/net directory in sysfs for each
network namespace, and I want to name each of them /sys/class/net.
I looked and the VFS actually allows that. All that is needed is
for /sys/class/net to implement a follow link method to redirect
lookups to the real directory you want.
Implementing a follow link method that is sensitive to the current
network namespace turns out to be 3 lines of code so it looks like a
clean approach. Modifying sysfs so it doesn't get in my was is a bit
trickier.
I am calling the concept of multiple directories all at the same path
in the filesystem shadow directories. With the directory entry really
at that location the shadow master.
The following patch modifies sysfs so it can handle a directory
structure slightly different from the kobject tree so I can implement
the shadow directories for handling /sys/class/net/.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch prevents a race between IO and removing a file from sysfs.
It introduces a list of sysfs_buffers associated with a file at the inode.
Upon removal of a file the list is walked and the buffers marked orphaned.
IO to orphaned buffers fails with -ENODEV. The driver can safely free
associated data structures or be unloaded.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
Acked-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
If we allow NULL as the new parent in device_move(), we need to make sure
that the device is placed into the same place as it would if it was
newly registered:
- Consider the device virtual tree. In order to be able to reuse code,
setup_parent() has been tweaked a bit.
- kobject_move() can fall back to the kset's kobject.
- sysfs_move_dir() uses the sysfs root dir as fallback.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Change all the uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to f_path.{dentry,mnt} in the sysfs
filesystem code.
Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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 <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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 <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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 <juha.yrjola@solidboot.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Tejun Heo