user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/sysfs.h, branch v3.2.45

sysfs: Implement support for tagged files in sysfs.

2011-10-19T23:24:14Z

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 Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

atomic: use

2011-07-26T23:49:47Z

This allows us to move duplicated code in (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: David Miller Cc: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Mike Frysinger Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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