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2007-10-16implement simple fs aopsNick Piggin
Implement new aops for some of the simpler filesystems. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-12sysfs: add copyrightsTejun Heo
Sysfs has gone through considerable amount of reimplementation. Add copyrights. Any objections? :-) Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12sysfs: move sysfs file poll implementation to sysfs_open_direntTejun Heo
Sysfs file poll implementation is scattered over sysfs and kobject. Event numbering is done in sysfs_dirent but wait itself is done on kobject. This not only unecessarily bloats both kobject and sysfs_dirent but is also buggy - if a sysfs_dirent is removed while there still are pollers, the associaton betwen the kobject and sysfs_dirent breaks and kobject may be freed with the pollers still sleeping on it. This patch moves whole poll implementation into sysfs_open_dirent. Each time a sysfs_open_dirent is created, event number restarts from 1 and pollers sleep on sysfs_open_dirent. As event sequence number is meaningless without any open file and pollers should have open file and thus sysfs_open_dirent, this ephemeral event counting works and is a saner implementation. This patch fixes the dnagling sleepers bug and reduces the sizes of kobject and sysfs_dirent by one pointer. 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>
2007-10-12sysfs: implement sysfs_open_direntTejun Heo
Implement sysfs_open_dirent which represents an open file (attribute) sysfs_dirent. A file sysfs_dirent with one or more open files have one sysfs_dirent and all sysfs_buffers (one for each open instance) are linked to it. sysfs_open_dirent doesn't actually do anything yet but will be used to off-load things which are specific for open file sysfs_dirent from it. 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>
2007-10-12sysfs: move sysfs_dirent->s_children into sysfs_dirent->s_dirTejun Heo
Children list head is only meaninful for directory nodes. Move it into s_dir. This doesn't save any space currently but it will with further changes. 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>
2007-10-12sysfs: make sysfs_root a regular directory direntTejun Heo
sysfs_root is different from a regular directory dirent in that it's of type SYSFS_ROOT and doesn't have a name. These differences aren't used by anybody and only adds to complexity. Make sysfs_root a regular directory dirent. 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>
2007-10-12sysfs: open code sysfs_attach_dentry()Tejun Heo
sysfs_attach_dentry() now has only one caller and isn't doing much other than obfuscating the code. Open code and kill it. 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>
2007-10-12sysfs: make s_elem an anonymous unionTejun Heo
Make s_elem an anonymous union. Prefixing with s_elem makes things needlessly longer without any advantage. 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>
2007-10-12sysfs: make bin attr open get active reference of parent tooTejun Heo
All bin attr operations require active references of itself and its parent. There's no reason to allow open when its parent has been deactivated and allowing it is inconsistent with regular sysfs file. Use sysfs_get_active_two() in bin attribute open function. 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>
2007-10-12sysfs: kill unnecessary NULL pointer check in sysfs_release()Tejun Heo
In sysfs_release(), sysfs_buffer pointed to by filp->private_data is guaranteed to exist. Kill the unnecessary NULL check. This also makes the code more consistent with the counterpart in fs/sysfs/bin.c. 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>
2007-10-12sysfs: kill unnecessary sysfs_get() in open pathsTejun Heo
There's no reason to get an extra reference to sysfs_dirent for an open file. Open file has a reference to the dentry which in turn has a reference to sysfs_dirent. This is fairly obvious as otherwise open itself won't be able to access the sysfs_dirent. Kill the extra sysfs_get() and matching sysfs_put(). 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>
2007-10-12sysfs: reposition sysfs_dirent->s_mode.Tejun Heo
Move s_mode downward such that it's side-by-side with s_iattr which is used for the same thing. 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>
2007-10-12sysfs: kill sysfs_update_file()Tejun Heo
sysfs_update_file() depends on inode->i_mtime but sysfs iondes are now reclaimable making the reported modification time unreliable. There's only one user (pci hotplug) of this notification mechanism and it reportedly isn't utilized from userland. Kill sysfs_update_file(). 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>
2007-10-12sysfs: clean up header filesTejun Heo
sysfs is about to go through major overhaul making this a pretty good opportunity to clean up (out-of-tree changes and pending patches will need regeneration anyway). Clean up headers. * Kill space between * and symbolname. * Move SYSFS_* type constants and flags into fs/sysfs/sysfs.h. They're internal to sysfs. * Reformat function prototypes and add argument symbol names. * Make dummy function definition order match that of function prototypes. * Add some comments. * Reorganize fs/sysfs/sysfs.h according to which file the declared variable or feature lives in. This patch does not introduce any behavior change. 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>
2007-10-12sysfs: fix sysfs_chmod_file() such that it updates sd->s_mode tooTejun Heo
sysfs_chmod_file() looked and updated only inode of the target file. Dentry and inode are reclaimable and the update mode data will go away when the inode is reclaimed. This patch makes sysfs_chmod_file() update sd->s_mode too such that the change is permanent. 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>
2007-10-12sysfs: fix comments of sysfs_add/remove_one()Tejun Heo
sysfs_add/remove_one() now link and unlink the target dirent into and from the children list. Update comments accordingly. 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>
2007-10-12sysfs: spit a warning to users when they try to create a duplicate sysfs fileGreg Kroah-Hartman
We want to let people know when we create a duplicate sysfs file, as they need to fix up their code. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12sysfs: Rewrite sysfs_move_dir in terms of sysfs direntsEric W. Biederman
This patch rewrites sysfs_move_dir to perform it's checks as much as possible on the underlying sysfs_dirents instead of the contents of the dcache, making sysfs_move_dir more like the rest of the sysfs directory modification code. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12sysfs: Rewrite rename in terms of sysfs direntsEric W. Biederman
This patch rewrites sysfs_rename_dir to perform it's checks as much as possible on the underlying sysfs_dirents instead of the contents of the dcache. It turns out that this version is a little simpler, and a little more like the rest of the sysfs directory modification code. tj: fixed double locking of sysfs_mutex Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12sysfs: Remove s_dentryEric W. Biederman
The only uses of s_dentry left are the code that maintains s_dentry and trivial users that don't actually need it. So this patch removes the s_dentry maintenance code and restructures the trivial uses to use something else. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12sysfs: simply sysfs_get_dentryTejun Heo
Now that we know the sysfs tree structure cannot change under us and sysfs shadow support is dropped, sysfs_get_dentry() can be simplified greatly. It can just look up from the root and there's no need to retry on failure. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12sysfs: Introduce sysfs_rename_mutexEric W. Biederman
Looking carefully at the rename code we have a subtle dependency that the structure of sysfs not change while we are performing a rename. If the parent directory of the object we are renaming changes while the rename is being performed nasty things could happen when we go to release our locks. So introduce a sysfs_rename_mutex to prevent this highly unlikely theoretical issue. In addition hold sysfs_rename_mutex over all calls to sysfs_get_dentry. Allowing sysfs_get_dentry to be simplified in the future. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12sysfs: Rewrite sysfs_drop_dentry.Eric W. Biederman
Currently we find the dentry to drop by looking at sd->s_dentry. We can just as easily accomplish the same task by looking up the sysfs inode and finding all of the dentries from there, with the added bonus that we don't need to play with the sysfs_assoc_lock. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12sysfs: Simplify readdir.Eric W. Biederman
At some point someone wrote sysfs_readdir to insert a cursor into the list of sysfs_dirents to ensure that sysfs_readdir would restart properly. That works but it is complex code and tends to be expensive. The same effect can be achieved by keeping the sysfs_dirents in inode order and using the inode number as the f_pos. Then when we restart we just have to find the first dirent whose inode number is equal or greater then the last sysfs_dirent we attempted to return. Removing the sysfs directory cursor also allows the remove of all of the mysterious checks for sysfs_type(sd) != 0. Which were nonbovious checks to see if a cursor was in a directory list. tj: offset marker for EOF is changed from UINT_MAX to INT_MAX to avoid overflow in case offset is 32bit. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12sysfs: In sysfs_lookup don't open code sysfs_find_direntEric W. Biederman
This is a small cleanup patch that makes the code just a little bit cleaner. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12sysfs: Make sysfs_mount staticEric W. Biederman
This patch modifies the users of sysfs_mount to use sysfs_root instead (which is what they are looking for). It then makes sysfs_mount static to keep people from using it by accident. The net result is slightly faster and cleaner code. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12sysfs: Use kill_anon_superEric W. Biederman
Since sysfs no longer stores fs directory information in the dcache on a permanent basis kill_litter_super it is inappropriate and actively wrong. It will decrement the count on all dentries left in the dcache before trying to free them. At the moment this is not biting us only because we never unmount sysfs. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12sysfs: Remove sysfs_instantiateEric W. Biederman
Now that sysfs_get_inode is dropping the inode lock we no longer have a need from sysfs_instantiate. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12sysfs: Move all of inode initialization into sysfs_init_inodeEric W. Biederman
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12sysfs: fix i_mutex locking in sysfs_get_dentry()Tejun Heo
lookup_one_len_kern() should be called with the parent's i_mutex locked. Fix it. Spotted by Eric W. Biederman. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12sysfs: Fix typos in fs/sysfs/file.cRolf Eike Beer
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12sysfs: make sysfs_addrm_finish() return voidTejun Heo
With the previous sysfs_add_one() update, there is only one user of the return value of sysfs_addrm_finish() and the user can switch to testing @sd easily. Make sysfs_addrm_finish() return void for cleaner semantics as suggested by Satyam Sharma. This patch doesn't introduce any noticeable behavior change. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com> Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12sysfs: make sysfs_add_one() automatically check for duplicate entryTejun Heo
Make sysfs_add_one() check for duplicate entry and return -EEXIST if such entry exists. This simplifies node addition code a bit. This patch doesn't introduce any noticeable behavior change. 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>
2007-10-12sysfs: make sysfs_add/remove_one() call link/unlink_sibling() implictlyTejun Heo
When adding or removing a sysfs_dirent, the user used to be required to call link/unlink separately. It was for two reasons - code looked like that before sysfs_addrm_cxt conversion and to avoid looping through parent_sd->children list twice during removal. Performance optimization during removal just isn't worth it. Make sysfs_add/remove_one() call sysfs_link/unlink_sibing() implicitly. This makes code simpler albeit slightly less efficient. This change doesn't introduce any noticeable behavior change. 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>
2007-10-12sysfs: simplify sysfs_rename_dir()Tejun Heo
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>
2007-10-12sysfs: cosmetic changes in sysfs_lookup()Tejun Heo
* 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>
2007-10-12sysfs: Remove first pass at shadow directory supportEric W. Biederman
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 b592fcfe7f06c15ec11774b5be7ce0de3aa86e73 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>
2007-10-12sysfs: cleanup semaphore.hDave Young
Cleanup semaphore.h Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12sysfs/file.c - use mutex instead of semaphoreDave Young
Use mutex instead of semaphore in sysfs/file.c : sys_buffer. Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12kobjects: fix up improper use of the kobject name fieldGreg Kroah-Hartman
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.
2007-08-22sysfs: don't warn on removal of a nonexistent binary fileAlan Stern
This patch (as960) removes the error message and stack dump logged by sysfs_remove_bin_file() when someone tries to remove a nonexistent file. The warning doesn't seem to be needed, since none of the other file-, symlink-, or directory-removal routines in sysfs complain in a comparable way. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-08-22sysfs: fix locking in sysfs_lookup() and sysfs_rename_dir()Tejun Heo
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>
2007-07-20mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().Paul Mundt
Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's c59def9f222d44bb7e2f0a559f2906191a0862d7 change. They've been BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them either. This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create() completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves, or the documentation references). Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2007-07-18sysfs: cosmetic clean up on node creation failure pathsTejun Heo
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>
2007-07-18sysfs: kill an extra put in sysfs_create_link() failure pathTejun Heo
There is a subtle bug in sysfs_create_link() failure path. When symlink creation fails because there's already a node with the same name, the target sysfs_dirent is put twice - once by failure path of sysfs_create_link() and once more when the symlink is released. Fix it by making only the symlink node responsible for putting target_sd. 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>
2007-07-18sysfs: make sysfs_init_inode() staticTejun Heo
With sysfs_fill_super() converted to use sysfs_get_inode(), there is no user of sysfs_init_inode() outside of fs/sysfs/inode.c. Make it static. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18sysfs: fix sysfs root inode nlink accountingTejun Heo
While making sysfs indoes hashed, sysfs root inode was left out. Now that nlink accounting depends on the inode being on the hash, sysfs root inode nlink isn't adjusted properly. Put sysfs root inode on the inode hash by allocating it using sysfs_get_inode() like other sysfs inodes. While at it, massage comments a bit. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18sysfs: avoid kmem_cache_free(NULL)Akinobu Mita
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>
2007-07-11sysfs: add parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in .read/.write methods for ↵Zhang Rui
sysfs binary attributes Well, first of all, I don't want to change so many files either. What I do: Adding a new parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in the .read/.write methods for the sysfs binary attributes. In fact, only the four lines change in fs/sysfs/bin.c and include/linux/sysfs.h do the real work. But I have to update all the files that use binary attributes to make them compatible with the new .read and .write methods. I'm not sure if I missed any. :( Why I do this: For a sysfs attribute, we can get a pointer pointing to the struct attribute in the .show/.store method, while we can't do this for the binary attributes. I don't know why this is different, but this does make it not so handy to use the binary attributes as the regular ones. So I think this patch is reasonable. :) Who benefits from it: The patch that exposes ACPI tables in sysfs requires such an improvement. All the table binary attributes share the same .read method. Parameter "struct bin_attribute *" is used to get the table signature and instance number which are used to distinguish different ACPI table binary attributes. Without this parameter, we need to offer different .read methods for different ACPI table binary attributes. This is impossible as there are various ACPI tables on different platforms, and we don't know what they are until they are loaded. Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11sysfs: make directory dentries and inodes reclaimableTejun Heo
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>