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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt | 56 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 8 |
5 files changed, 53 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index d819ba1..4fca82e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -37,15 +37,15 @@ d_manage: no no yes (ref-walk) maybe --------------------------- inode_operations --------------------------- prototypes: - int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,int, struct nameidata *); + int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t, struct nameidata *); struct dentry * (*lookup) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, struct nameid ata *); int (*link) (struct dentry *,struct inode *,struct dentry *); int (*unlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *); int (*symlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,const char *); - int (*mkdir) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,int); + int (*mkdir) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t); int (*rmdir) (struct inode *,struct dentry *); - int (*mknod) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,int,dev_t); + int (*mknod) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t,dev_t); int (*rename) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct inode *, struct dentry *); int (*readlink) (struct dentry *, char __user *,int); @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ prototypes: int (*statfs) (struct dentry *, struct kstatfs *); int (*remount_fs) (struct super_block *, int *, char *); void (*umount_begin) (struct super_block *); - int (*show_options)(struct seq_file *, struct vfsmount *); + int (*show_options)(struct seq_file *, struct dentry *); ssize_t (*quota_read)(struct super_block *, int, char *, size_t, loff_t); ssize_t (*quota_write)(struct super_block *, int, const char *, size_t, loff_t); int (*bdev_try_to_free_page)(struct super_block*, struct page*, gfp_t); diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt index dd57bb6..b40fec9 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ attribute value uses the store_attribute() method. struct configfs_attribute { char *ca_name; struct module *ca_owner; - mode_t ca_mode; + umode_t ca_mode; }; When a config_item wants an attribute to appear as a file in the item's diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt index 742cc06..6872c91 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ described below will work. The most general way to create a file within a debugfs directory is with: - struct dentry *debugfs_create_file(const char *name, mode_t mode, + struct dentry *debugfs_create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, void *data, const struct file_operations *fops); @@ -53,13 +53,13 @@ actually necessary; the debugfs code provides a number of helper functions for simple situations. Files containing a single integer value can be created with any of: - struct dentry *debugfs_create_u8(const char *name, mode_t mode, + struct dentry *debugfs_create_u8(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, u8 *value); - struct dentry *debugfs_create_u16(const char *name, mode_t mode, + struct dentry *debugfs_create_u16(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, u16 *value); - struct dentry *debugfs_create_u32(const char *name, mode_t mode, + struct dentry *debugfs_create_u32(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, u32 *value); - struct dentry *debugfs_create_u64(const char *name, mode_t mode, + struct dentry *debugfs_create_u64(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, u64 *value); These files support both reading and writing the given value; if a specific @@ -67,13 +67,13 @@ file should not be written to, simply set the mode bits accordingly. The values in these files are in decimal; if hexadecimal is more appropriate, the following functions can be used instead: - struct dentry *debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, mode_t mode, + struct dentry *debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, u8 *value); - struct dentry *debugfs_create_x16(const char *name, mode_t mode, + struct dentry *debugfs_create_x16(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, u16 *value); - struct dentry *debugfs_create_x32(const char *name, mode_t mode, + struct dentry *debugfs_create_x32(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, u32 *value); - struct dentry *debugfs_create_x64(const char *name, mode_t mode, + struct dentry *debugfs_create_x64(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, u64 *value); These functions are useful as long as the developer knows the size of the @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ value to be exported. Some types can have different widths on different architectures, though, complicating the situation somewhat. There is a function meant to help out in one special case: - struct dentry *debugfs_create_size_t(const char *name, mode_t mode, + struct dentry *debugfs_create_size_t(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, size_t *value); @@ -90,21 +90,22 @@ a variable of type size_t. Boolean values can be placed in debugfs with: - struct dentry *debugfs_create_bool(const char *name, mode_t mode, + struct dentry *debugfs_create_bool(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, u32 *value); A read on the resulting file will yield either Y (for non-zero values) or N, followed by a newline. If written to, it will accept either upper- or lower-case values, or 1 or 0. Any other input will be silently ignored. -Finally, a block of arbitrary binary data can be exported with: +Another option is exporting a block of arbitrary binary data, with +this structure and function: struct debugfs_blob_wrapper { void *data; unsigned long size; }; - struct dentry *debugfs_create_blob(const char *name, mode_t mode, + struct dentry *debugfs_create_blob(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, struct debugfs_blob_wrapper *blob); @@ -115,6 +116,35 @@ can be used to export binary information, but there does not appear to be any code which does so in the mainline. Note that all files created with debugfs_create_blob() are read-only. +If you want to dump a block of registers (something that happens quite +often during development, even if little such code reaches mainline. +Debugfs offers two functions: one to make a registers-only file, and +another to insert a register block in the middle of another sequential +file. + + struct debugfs_reg32 { + char *name; + unsigned long offset; + }; + + struct debugfs_regset32 { + struct debugfs_reg32 *regs; + int nregs; + void __iomem *base; + }; + + struct dentry *debugfs_create_regset32(const char *name, mode_t mode, + struct dentry *parent, + struct debugfs_regset32 *regset); + + int debugfs_print_regs32(struct seq_file *s, struct debugfs_reg32 *regs, + int nregs, void __iomem *base, char *prefix); + +The "base" argument may be 0, but you may want to build the reg32 array +using __stringify, and a number of register names (macros) are actually +byte offsets over a base for the register block. + + There are a couple of other directory-oriented helper functions: struct dentry *debugfs_rename(struct dentry *old_dir, diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt index 07235ca..a6619b7 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ An attribute definition is simply: struct attribute { char * name; struct module *owner; - mode_t mode; + umode_t mode; }; diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 43cbd08..3d9393b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ struct super_operations { void (*clear_inode) (struct inode *); void (*umount_begin) (struct super_block *); - int (*show_options)(struct seq_file *, struct vfsmount *); + int (*show_options)(struct seq_file *, struct dentry *); ssize_t (*quota_read)(struct super_block *, int, char *, size_t, loff_t); ssize_t (*quota_write)(struct super_block *, int, const char *, size_t, loff_t); @@ -341,14 +341,14 @@ This describes how the VFS can manipulate an inode in your filesystem. As of kernel 2.6.22, the following members are defined: struct inode_operations { - int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,int, struct nameidata *); + int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, umode_t, struct nameidata *); struct dentry * (*lookup) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, struct nameidata *); int (*link) (struct dentry *,struct inode *,struct dentry *); int (*unlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *); int (*symlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,const char *); - int (*mkdir) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,int); + int (*mkdir) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t); int (*rmdir) (struct inode *,struct dentry *); - int (*mknod) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,int,dev_t); + int (*mknod) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t,dev_t); int (*rename) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct inode *, struct dentry *); int (*readlink) (struct dentry *, char __user *,int); |
