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2013-08-28sysfs: sysfs_create_groups returns a value.Greg Kroah-Hartman
When I included the "empty" function for sysfs_create_groups() when CONFIG_SYSFS=n, I forgot to return a value for it, so things blew up the build. This patch fixes that, stupid me. Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-08-27sysfs: add sysfs_create/remove_groups for when SYSFS is not enabledGreg Kroah-Hartman
We need these functions for when CONFIG_SYSFS=n. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-08-23sysfs: create __ATTR_WO()Greg Kroah-Hartman
This creates the macro __ATTR_WO() for write-only attributes, instead of having to "open define" them. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-08-22sysfs.h: remove attr_name() macroGreg Kroah-Hartman
Gotta love a macro that doesn't reduce the typing you have to do. Also, only the driver core, and one network driver uses this. The driver core functions will be going away soon, and I'll convert the network driver soon to not need this as well, so delete it for now before anyone else gets some bright ideas and wants to use it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-08-21sysfs: fix up minor coding style issues in sysfs.hGreg Kroah-Hartman
As long as we are cleaning up sysfs coding style issues, don't forget the main sysfs.h file, so fix up the space issues there as well. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-08-21sysfs: add sysfs_create/remove_groups()Greg Kroah-Hartman
These functions are being open-coded in 3 different places in the driver core, and other driver subsystems will want to start doing this as well, so move it to the sysfs core to keep it all in one place, where we know it is written properly. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-08-20sysfs.h: fix __BIN_ATTR_RW()Greg Kroah-Hartman
__BIN_ATTR_RW() wasn't passing in the _size field. As it would break the build if this macro was ever used, it's obvious no one had ever tried to use it before. Fix it so that it can be used. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-16sysfs: use file mode defines from stat.hOliver Schinagl
With the last patches stat.h was included to the header, and thus those permission defines should be used. Signed-off-by: Oliver Schinagl <oliver@schinagl.nl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-16sysfs: add more helper macro's for (bin_)attribute(_groups)Oliver Schinagl
With the recent changes to sysfs there's various helper macro's. However there's no RW, RO BIN_ helper macro's. This patch adds them. Signed-off-by: Oliver Schinagl <oliver@schinagl.nl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-16sysfs: add support for binary attributes in groupsGreg Kroah-Hartman
groups should be able to support binary attributes, just like it supports "normal" attributes. This lets us only handle one type of structure, groups, throughout the driver core and subsystems, making binary attributes a "full fledged" part of the driver model, and not something just "tacked on". Reported-by: Oliver Schinagl <oliver@schinagl.nl> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-16sysfs.h: add BIN_ATTR macroGreg Kroah-Hartman
This makes it easier to create static binary attributes, which is needed in a number of drivers, instead of "open coding" them. Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-16sysfs.h: add ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS() macroGreg Kroah-Hartman
To make it easier for driver subsystems to work with attribute groups, create the ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS macro to remove some of the repetitive typing for the most common use for attribute groups. Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-16sysfs.h: add __ATTR_RW() macroGreg Kroah-Hartman
A number of parts of the kernel created their own version of this, might as well have the sysfs core provide it instead. Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-25sysfs: Functions for adding/removing symlinks to/from attribute groupsRafael J. Wysocki
The most convenient way to expose ACPI power resources lists of a device is to put symbolic links to sysfs directories representing those resources into special attribute groups in the device's sysfs directory. For this purpose, it is necessary to be able to add symbolic links to attribute groups. For this reason, add sysfs helper functions for adding/removing symbolic links to/from attribute groups, sysfs_add_link_to_group() and sysfs_remove_link_from_group(), respectively. This change set includes a build fix from David Rientjes. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-05-14sysfs: get rid of some lockdep false positivesAlan Stern
This patch (as1554) fixes a lockdep false-positive report. The problem arises because lockdep is unable to deal with the tree-structured locks created by the device core and sysfs. This particular problem involves a sysfs attribute method that unregisters itself, not from the device it was called for, but from a descendant device. Lockdep doesn't understand the distinction and reports a possible deadlock, even though the operation is safe. This is the sort of thing that would normally be handled by using a nested lock annotation; unfortunately it's not feasible to do that here. There's no sensible way to tell sysfs when attribute removal occurs in the context of a parent attribute method. As a workaround, the patch adds a new flag to struct attribute telling sysfs not to inform lockdep when it acquires a readlock on a sysfs_dirent instance for the attribute. The readlock is still acquired, but lockdep doesn't know about it and hence does not complain about impossible deadlock scenarios. Also added are macros for static initialization of attribute structures with the ignore_lockdep flag set. The three offending attributes in the USB subsystem are converted to use the new macros. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-01-03switch sysfs_chmod_file() to umode_tAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03switch ->is_visible() to returning umode_tAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03switch sysfs attr->mode to umode_tAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-10-19sysfs: Implement support for tagged files in sysfs.Eric W. Biederman
Looking up files in sysfs is hard to understand and analyize because we currently allow placing untagged files in tagged directories. In the implementation of that we have two subtly different meanings of NULL. NULL meaning there is no tag on a directory entry and NULL meaning we don't care which namespace the lookup is performed for. This multiple uses of NULL have resulted in subtle bugs (since fixed) in the code. Currently it is only the bonding driver that needs to have an untagged file in a tagged directory. To untagle this mess I am adding support for tagged files to sysfs. Modifying the bonding driver to implement bonding_masters as a tagged file. Registering bonding_masters once for each network namespace. Then I am removing support for untagged entries in tagged sysfs directories. Resulting in code that is much easier to reason about. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-07-26atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>Arun Sharma
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h> (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h> Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-12Delay struct net freeing while there's a sysfs instance refering to itAl Viro
* new refcount in struct net, controlling actual freeing of the memory * new method in kobj_ns_type_operations (->drop_ns()) * ->current_ns() semantics change - it's supposed to be followed by corresponding ->drop_ns(). For struct net in case of CONFIG_NET_NS it bumps the new refcount; net_drop_ns() decrements it and calls net_free() if the last reference has been dropped. Method renamed to ->grab_current_ns(). * old net_free() callers call net_drop_ns() instead. * sysfs_exit_ns() is gone, along with a large part of callchain leading to it; now that the references stored in ->ns[...] stay valid we do not need to hunt them down and replace them with NULL. That fixes problems in sysfs_lookup() and sysfs_readdir(), along with getting rid of sb->s_instances abuse. Note that struct net *shutdown* logics has not changed - net_cleanup() is called exactly when it used to be called. The only thing postponed by having a sysfs instance refering to that struct net is actual freeing of memory occupied by struct net. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-05-13sysfs: remove "last sysfs file:" line from the oops messagesGreg Kroah-Hartman
On some arches (x86, sh, arm, unicore, powerpc) the oops message would print out the last sysfs file accessed. This was very useful in finding a number of sysfs and driver core bugs in the 2.5 and early 2.6 development days, but it has been a number of years since this file has actually helped in debugging anything that couldn't also be trivially determined from the stack traceback. So it's time to delete the line. This is good as we need all the space we can get for oops messages at times on consoles. Acked-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-10-17sysfs: Add sysfs_merge_group() and sysfs_unmerge_group()Alan Stern
This patch (as1420) adds sysfs_merge_group() and sysfs_unmerge_group() functions, allowing drivers easily to add and remove sets of attributes to a pre-existing attribute group directory. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2010-08-23kobject: Break the kobject namespace defs into their own headerDavid Howells
Break the kobject namespace defs into their own header to avoid a header file inclusion ordering problem between linux/sysfs.h and linux/kobject.h. This fixes the build breakage on older versions of gcc. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-05sysfs: Remove owner field from sysfs struct attributeGuenter Roeck
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-05sysfs: sysfs_chmod_file's attr can be constJean Delvare
sysfs_chmod_file doesn't change the attribute it operates on, so this attribute can be marked const. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21sysfs: add struct file* to bin_attr callbacksChris Wright
This allows bin_attr->read,write,mmap callbacks to check file specific data (such as inode owner) as part of any privilege validation. Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21sysfs: Don't use enums in inline function declaration.Eric W. Biederman
It appears gcc can't cope with using an enum that is only declared in an inline function declaration, that doesn't even use the variable that is so declared. Avoid the silliness and replace the enum with an int, and make gcc happy. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21sysfs: Comment sysfs directory tagging logicSerge E. Hallyn
Add some in-line comments to explain the new infrastructure, which was introduced to support sysfs directory tagging with namespaces. I think an overall description someplace might be good too, but it didn't really seem to fit into Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt, which appears more geared toward users, rather than maintainers, of sysfs. (Tejun, please let me know if I can make anything clearer or failed altogether to comment something that should be commented.) Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21sysfs: Implement sysfs_delete_linkEric W. Biederman
When removing a symlink sysfs_remove_link does not provide enough information to figure out which tagged directory the symlink falls in. So I need sysfs_delete_link which is passed the target of the symlink to delete. sysfs_rename_link is updated to call sysfs_delete_link instead of sysfs_remove_link as we have all of the information necessary and the callers are interesting. Both of these functions now have enough information to find a symlink in a tagged directory. The only restriction is that they must be called before the target kobject is renamed or deleted. If they are called later I loose track of which tag the target kobject was marked with and can no longer find the old symlink to remove it. This patch was split from an earlier patch. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21sysfs: Implement sysfs tagged directory support.Eric W. Biederman
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/*, /sys/devices/virtual/net/*, and potentially a few other directories of the form /sys/ ... /net/*. What this patch does is to add an additional tag field to the sysfs dirent structure. For directories that should show different contents depending on the context such as /sys/class/net/, and /sys/devices/virtual/net/ this tag field is used to specify the context in which those directories should be visible. Effectively this is the same as creating multiple distinct directories with the same name but internally to sysfs the result is nicer. I am calling the concept of a single directory that looks like multiple directories all at the same path in the filesystem tagged directories. For the networking namespace the set of directories whose contents I need to filter with tags can depend on the presence or absence of hotplug hardware or which modules are currently loaded. Which means I need a simple race free way to setup those directories as tagged. To achieve a reace free design all tagged directories are created and managed by sysfs itself. Users of this interface: - define a type in the sysfs_tag_type enumeration. - call sysfs_register_ns_types with the type and it's operations - sysfs_exit_ns when an individual tag is no longer valid - Implement mount_ns() which returns the ns of the calling process so we can attach it to a sysfs superblock. - Implement ktype.namespace() which returns the ns of a syfs kobject. Everything else is left up to sysfs and the driver layer. For the network namespace mount_ns and namespace() are essentially one line functions, and look to remain that. Tags are currently represented a const void * pointers as that is both generic, prevides enough information for equality comparisons, and is trivial to create for current users, as it is just the existing namespace pointer. The work needed in sysfs is more extensive. At each directory or symlink creating I need to check if the directory it is being created in is a tagged directory and if so generate the appropriate tag to place on the sysfs_dirent. Likewise at each symlink or directory removal I need to check if the sysfs directory it is being removed from is a tagged directory and if so figure out which tag goes along with the name I am deleting. Currently only directories which hold kobjects, and symlinks are supported. There is not enough information in the current file attribute interfaces to give us anything to discriminate on which makes it useless, and there are no potential users which makes it an uninteresting problem to solve. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07sysfs: fix for thinko with sysfs_bin_attr_init()Stephen Rothwell
After merging the final tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc allyesconfig) failed like this: drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c: In function 'pci_create_legacy_files': drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c:645: error: lvalue required as unary '&' operand drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c:658: error: lvalue required as unary '&' operand Caused by commit "sysfs: Use sysfs_attr_init and sysfs_bin_attr_init on dynamic attributes" interacting with commit "sysfs: Use one lockdep class per sysfs attribute") both from the driver-core tree. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07sysfs: Implement sysfs_rename_linkEric W. Biederman
Because of rename ordering problems we occassionally give false warnings about invalid sysfs operations. So using sysfs_rename create a sysfs_rename_link function that doesn't need strange workarounds. Cc: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07sysfs: Document sysfs_attr_init and sysfs_bin_attr_initEric W. Biederman
I have added a new requirement to the external sysfs interface that dynamically allocated sysfs attributes must call sysfs_attr_init if lockdep is enabled. For the time being callying sysfs_attr_init is only mandatory if lockdep is enabled, so we can live with a few unconverted instances until we find them all. As this is part of the public interface of sysfs it is a good idea to document these pseudo functions so someone inspeciting the code can find out what has happened. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07sysfs: Use one lockdep class per sysfs attribute.Eric W. Biederman
Acknowledge that the logical sysfs rwsem has one instance per sysfs attribute with different locking depencencies for different attributes. There is a sysfs idiom where writing to one sysfs file causes the addition or removal of other sysfs files. Lumping all of the sysfs attributes together in one lock class causes lockdep to generate lots of false positives. This introduces the requirement that non-static sysfs attributes need to be initialized with sysfs_attr_init or sysfs_bin_attr_init. Strictly speaking this requirement only exists when lockdep is enabled, and when lockdep is enabled we get a bit fat warning if this requirement is not met. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07sysfs: Add sysfs_add/remove_files utility functionsAndi Kleen
Adding/Removing a whole array of attributes is very common. Add a standard utility function to do this with a simple function call, instead of requiring drivers to open code this. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-23Driver core: bin_attribute parameters can often be const*Phil Carmody
Many struct bin_attribute descriptors are purely read-only structures, and there's no need to change them. Therefore make the promise not to, which will let those descriptors be put in a ro section. Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-20x86: sysfs: kill owner field from attributeParag Warudkar
Tejun's commit 7b595756ec1f49e0049a9e01a1298d53a7faaa15 made sysfs attribute->owner unnecessary. But the field was left in the structure to ease the merge. It's been over a year since that change and it is now time to start killing attribute->owner along with its users - one arch at a time! This patch is attempt #1 to get rid of attribute->owner only for CONFIG_X86_64 or CONFIG_X86_32 . We will deal with other arches later on as and when possible - avr32 will be the next since that is something I can test. Compile (make allyesconfig / make allmodconfig / custom config) and boot tested. akpm: the idea is that we put the declaration of sttribute.owner inside `#ifndef CONFIG_X86'. But that proved to be too ambitious for now because new usages kept on turning up in subsystem trees. [akpm: remove the ifdef for now] Signed-off-by: Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@gmail.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16kobject: Cleanup kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFSEric W. Biederman
It finally dawned on me what the clean fix to sysfs_rename_dir calling kobject_set_name is. Move the work into kobject_rename where it belongs. The callers serialize us anyway so this is safe. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16kobject: Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFSEric W. Biederman
When looking at kobject_rename I found two bugs with that exist when sysfs support is disabled in the kernel. kobject_rename does not change the name on the kobject when sysfs support is not compiled in. kobject_rename without locking attempts to check the validity of a rename operation, which the kobject layer simply does not have the infrastructure to do. This patch documents the previously unstated requirement of kobject_rename that is the responsibility of the caller to provide mutual exclusion and to be certain that the new_name for the kobject is valid. This patch modifies sysfs_rename_dir in !CONFIG_SYSFS case to call kobject_set_name to actually change the kobject_name. This patch removes the bogus and misleading check in kobject_rename that attempts to see if a rename is valid. The check is bogus because we do not have the proper locking. The check is misleading because it looks like we can and do perform checking at the kobject level that we don't. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16sysfs: Make dir and name args to sysfs_notify() constTrent Piepho
Because they can be, and because code like this produces a warning if they're not: struct device_attribute dev_attr; sysfs_notify(&kobj, NULL, dev_attr.attr.name); Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@freescale.com> CC: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16sysfs: Support sysfs_notify from atomic context with new sysfs_notify_direntNeil Brown
Support sysfs_notify from atomic context with new sysfs_notify_dirent sysfs_notify currently takes sysfs_mutex. This means that it cannot be called in atomic context. sysfs_mutex is sometimes held over a malloc (sysfs_rename_dir) so it can block on low memory. In md I want to be able to notify on a sysfs attribute from atomic context, and I don't want to block on low memory because I could be in the writeout path for freeing memory. So: - export the "sysfs_dirent" structure along with sysfs_get, sysfs_put and sysfs_get_dirent so I can get the sysfs_dirent that I want to notify on and hold it in an md structure. - split sysfs_notify_dirent out of sysfs_notify so the sysfs_dirent can be notified on with no blocking (just a spinlock). Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16sysfs: crash debuggingAndrew Morton
Print the name of the last-accessed sysfs file when we oops, to help track down oopses which occur in sysfs store/read handlers. Because these oopses tend to not leave any trace of the offending code in the stack traces. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().Cornelia Huck
driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename(). Renaming network devices to an already existing name is not something we want sysfs to print a scary warning for, since the callers can deal with this correctly. So let's introduce sysfs_create_link_nowarn() which gets rid of the common warning. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-05-04sysfs: build fixIngo Molnar
x86.git testing found the following build failure on v2.6.26-rc1: In file included from include/linux/kobject.h:22, from include/linux/module.h:17, from include/linux/crypto.h:22, from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c:8, from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:3: include/linux/sysfs.h:201: error: redefinition of 'sysfs_update_group' include/linux/sysfs.h:195: error: previous definition of 'sysfs_update_group' was here make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1 make: *** [prepare0] Error 2 with the following config: http://redhat.com/~mingo/misc/config-Sun_May__4_07_09_30_CEST_2008.bad the reason for the build failure is the duplicate definition of the sysfs_update_group() inline function in include/linux/sysfs.h. The duplication was a merge error: it was added via -mm by commit v2.6.25-7262-g2850699, "sysfs: sysfs_update_group stub for CONFIG_SYSFS=n" a day before v2.6.26-rc1, but a day before that the same commit was already merged upstream via the sysfs tree, with commit v2.6.25-7211-g1cbfb7a. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-01sysfs: sysfs_update_group stub for CONFIG_SYSFS=nRandy Dunlap
scsi_transport_spi uses sysfs_update_group() when CONFIG_SYSFS=n, so provide a stub for it. next-20080423/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.c:1467: error: implicit declaration of function 'sysfs_update_group' make[3]: *** [drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.o] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30sysfs: sysfs_update_group stub for CONFIG_SYSFS=nRandy Dunlap
scsi_transport_spi uses sysfs_update_group() when CONFIG_SYSFS=n, so provide a stub for it. next-20080423/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.c:1467: error: implicit declaration of function 'sysfs_update_group' make[3]: *** [drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.o] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-22[SCSI] sysfs: make group is_valid return a mode_tJames Bottomley
We have a problem in scsi_transport_spi in that we need to customise not only the visibility of the attributes, but also their mode. Fix this by making the is_visible() callback return a mode, with 0 indicating is not visible. Also add a sysfs_update_group() API to allow us to change either the visibility or mode of the files at any time on the fly. Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-04-19sysfs: small header file cleanup for SYSFS=nDavid Rientjes
Convert sysfs_remove_bin_file() to have a return type of 'void' for !CONFIG_SYSFS configurations. Also removes unnecessary colons from empty void functions. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-23[SCSI] sysfs: add filter function to groupsJames Bottomley
This patch allows the various users of attribute_groups to selectively allow the appearance of group attributes. The primary consumer of this will be the transport classes in which we currently have elaborate attribute selection algorithms to do this same thing. Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>