user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/sysfs.h, branch v3.0.85

Delay struct net freeing while there's a sysfs instance refering to it

2011-06-12T21:45:41Z

* 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

sysfs: remove "last sysfs file:" line from the oops messages

2011-05-13T23:05:51Z

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 Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs: Add sysfs_merge_group() and sysfs_unmerge_group()

2010-10-16T23:57:44Z

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 Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

kobject: Break the kobject namespace defs into their own header

2010-08-24T01:12:46Z

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 Cc: Eric Biederman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs: Remove owner field from sysfs struct attribute

2010-08-05T20:53:35Z

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs: sysfs_chmod_file's attr can be const

2010-08-05T20:53:34Z

sysfs_chmod_file doesn't change the attribute it operates on, so this attribute can be marked const. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs: add struct file* to bin_attr callbacks

2010-05-21T16:37:31Z

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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs: Don't use enums in inline function declaration.

2010-05-21T16:37:31Z

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

sysfs: Comment sysfs directory tagging logic

2010-05-21T16:37:31Z

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 Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs: Implement sysfs_delete_link

2010-05-21T16:37:31Z

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 Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman