user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/sysfs.h, branch v3.9

sysfs: Functions for adding/removing symlinks to/from attribute groups

2013-01-25T20:51:13Z

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 Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs: get rid of some lockdep false positives

2012-05-14T19:19:56Z

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 Acked-by: Tejun Heo CC: Eric W. Biederman CC: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

switch sysfs_chmod_file() to umode_t

2012-01-04T03:54:56Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

switch ->is_visible() to returning umode_t

2012-01-04T03:54:55Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

switch sysfs attr->mode to umode_t

2012-01-04T03:54:55Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

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