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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-04-06 01:41:22 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-04-06 01:41:22 +0200
commit9efe21cb82b5dbe3b0b2ae4de4eccc64ecb94e95 (patch)
tree7ff8833745d2f268f897f6fa4a27263b4a572245 /fs/sysfs/inode.c
parentde18836e447c2dc30120c0919b8db8ddc0401cc4 (diff)
parent0221c81b1b8eb0cbb6b30a0ced52ead32d2b4e4c (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into irq/threaded
Conflicts: include/linux/irq.h kernel/irq/handle.c
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sysfs/inode.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/inode.c17
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/inode.c b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
index dfa3d94cfc74..555f0ff988df 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ static void sysfs_init_inode(struct sysfs_dirent *sd, struct inode *inode)
{
struct bin_attribute *bin_attr;
+ inode->i_private = sysfs_get(sd);
inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &sysfs_aops;
inode->i_mapping->backing_dev_info = &sysfs_backing_dev_info;
inode->i_op = &sysfs_inode_operations;
@@ -214,6 +215,22 @@ struct inode * sysfs_get_inode(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
return inode;
}
+/*
+ * The sysfs_dirent serves as both an inode and a directory entry for sysfs.
+ * To prevent the sysfs inode numbers from being freed prematurely we take a
+ * reference to sysfs_dirent from the sysfs inode. A
+ * super_operations.delete_inode() implementation is needed to drop that
+ * reference upon inode destruction.
+ */
+void sysfs_delete_inode(struct inode *inode)
+{
+ struct sysfs_dirent *sd = inode->i_private;
+
+ truncate_inode_pages(&inode->i_data, 0);
+ clear_inode(inode);
+ sysfs_put(sd);
+}
+
int sysfs_hash_and_remove(struct sysfs_dirent *dir_sd, const char *name)
{
struct sysfs_addrm_cxt acxt;