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* fs/char_dev.c: fix incorrect documentation for unregister_chrdev_regionPartha Pratim Mukherjee2015-08-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | The current documentation for unregister_chrdev_region says that it return a range of device numbers which is incorrect. Instead it unregister a range of device numbers. Fix the documentation to make this clear. Signed-off-by: Partha Pratim Mukherjee <ppm.floss@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* fs: introduce f_op->mmap_capabilities for nommu mmap supportChristoph Hellwig2015-01-201-24/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since "BDI: Provide backing device capability information [try #3]" the backing_dev_info structure also provides flags for the kind of mmap operation available in a nommu environment, which is entirely unrelated to it's original purpose. Introduce a new nommu-only file operation to provide this information to the nommu mmap code instead. Splitting this from the backing_dev_info structure allows to remove lots of backing_dev_info instance that aren't otherwise needed, and entirely gets rid of the concept of providing a backing_dev_info for a character device. It also removes the need for the mtd_inodefs filesystem. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
* fs/char_dev.c: remove pointless assignment from __register_chrdev_region()Jan Kara2014-12-101-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | At one place we assign major number we found to ret. That assignment is then never used and actually doesn't make any sense given how the code is currently structured (the assignment comes from pre-git times). Just remove it. Coverity id: 1226852. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-3.13/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds2013-11-141-1/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull block IO core updates from Jens Axboe: "This is the pull request for the core changes in the block layer for 3.13. It contains: - The new blk-mq request interface. This is a new and more scalable queueing model that marries the best part of the request based interface we currently have (which is fully featured, but scales poorly) and the bio based "interface" which the new drivers for high IOPS devices end up using because it's much faster than the request based one. The bio interface has no block layer support, since it taps into the stack much earlier. This means that drivers end up having to implement a lot of functionality on their own, like tagging, timeout handling, requeue, etc. The blk-mq interface provides all these. Some drivers even provide a switch to select bio or rq and has code to handle both, since things like merging only works in the rq model and hence is faster for some workloads. This is a huge mess. Conversion of these drivers nets us a substantial code reduction. Initial results on converting SCSI to this model even shows an 8x improvement on single queue devices. So while the model was intended to work on the newer multiqueue devices, it has substantial improvements for "classic" hardware as well. This code has gone through extensive testing and development, it's now ready to go. A pull request is coming to convert virtio-blk to this model will be will be coming as well, with more drivers scheduled for 3.14 conversion. - Two blktrace fixes from Jan and Chen Gang. - A plug merge fix from Alireza Haghdoost. - Conversion of __get_cpu_var() from Christoph Lameter. - Fix for sector_div() with 64-bit divider from Geert Uytterhoeven. - A fix for a race between request completion and the timeout handling from Jeff Moyer. This is what caused the merge conflict with blk-mq/core, in case you are looking at that. - A dm stacking fix from Mike Snitzer. - A code consolidation fix and duplicated code removal from Kent Overstreet. - A handful of block bug fixes from Mikulas Patocka, fixing a loop crash and memory corruption on blk cg. - Elevator switch bug fix from Tomoki Sekiyama. A heads-up that I had to rebase this branch. Initially the immutable bio_vecs had been queued up for inclusion, but a week later, it became clear that it wasn't fully cooked yet. So the decision was made to pull this out and postpone it until 3.14. It was a straight forward rebase, just pruning out the immutable series and the later fixes of problems with it. The rest of the patches applied directly and no further changes were made" * 'for-3.13/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (31 commits) block: replace IS_ERR and PTR_ERR with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO block: replace IS_ERR and PTR_ERR with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO block: Do not call sector_div() with a 64-bit divisor kernel: trace: blktrace: remove redundent memcpy() in compat_blk_trace_setup() block: Consolidate duplicated bio_trim() implementations block: Use rw_copy_check_uvector() block: Enable sysfs nomerge control for I/O requests in the plug list block: properly stack underlying max_segment_size to DM device elevator: acquire q->sysfs_lock in elevator_change() elevator: Fix a race in elevator switching and md device initialization block: Replace __get_cpu_var uses bdi: test bdi_init failure block: fix a probe argument to blk_register_region loop: fix crash if blk_alloc_queue fails blk-core: Fix memory corruption if blkcg_init_queue fails block: fix race between request completion and timeout handling blktrace: Send BLK_TN_PROCESS events to all running traces blk-mq: don't disallow request merges for req->special being set blk-mq: mq plug list breakage blk-mq: fix for flush deadlock ...
| * bdi: test bdi_init failureMikulas Patocka2013-11-081-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There were two places where return value from bdi_init was not tested. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* | consolidate the reassignments of ->f_op in ->open() instancesAl Viro2013-10-241-2/+4
|/ | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* char_dev: pin parent kobjectDmitry Torokhov2012-10-221-1/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In certain cases (for example when a cdev structure is embedded into another object whose lifetime is controlled by a separate kobject) it is beneficial to tie lifetime of another object to the lifetime of character device so that related object is not freed until after char_dev object is freed. To achieve this let's pin kobject's parent when doing cdev_add() and unpin when last reference to cdev structure is being released. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* char_dev.c: fix up some whitespace errorsGreg Kroah-Hartman2011-12-131-3/+3
| | | | | | | | Remove some minor whitespace errors (2 trailing spaces, and one space needed for a comma) to make the file checkpatch.pl clean with the exception of the exports, which is fine for now. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Merge branch 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2011-01-131-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (43 commits) block: ensure that completion error gets properly traced blktrace: add missing probe argument to block_bio_complete block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_group block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_queue block: trace event block fix unassigned field block: add internal hd part table references block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges kref: add kref_test_and_get bio-integrity: mark kintegrityd_wq highpri and CPU intensive block: make kblockd_workqueue smarter Revert "sd: implement sd_check_events()" block: Clean up exit_io_context() source code. Fix compile warnings due to missing removal of a 'ret' variable fs/block: type signature of major_to_index(int) to major_to_index(unsigned) block: convert !IS_ERR(p) && p to !IS_ERR_NOR_NULL(p) cfq-iosched: don't check cfqg in choose_service_tree() fs/splice: Pull buf->ops->confirm() from splice_from_pipe actors cdrom: export cdrom_check_events() sd: implement sd_check_events() sr: implement sr_check_events() ...
| * fs/block: type signature of major_to_index(int) to major_to_index(unsigned)Yang Zhang2010-12-171-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The major/minor device numbers are always defined and used as `unsigned'. Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <kthreadd@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* | fs/char_dev.c: remove unused cdev_index()Namhyung Kim2011-01-131-13/+0
|/ | | | | | | | | | | Commit 66fa12c571d3 ("ieee1394: remove the old IEEE 1394 driver stack") eliminated the only user of cdev_index(). So it can be removed too. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bklLinus Torvalds2010-10-221-0/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl: vfs: make no_llseek the default vfs: don't use BKL in default_llseek llseek: automatically add .llseek fop libfs: use generic_file_llseek for simple_attr mac80211: disallow seeks in minstrel debug code lirc: make chardev nonseekable viotape: use noop_llseek raw: use explicit llseek file operations ibmasmfs: use generic_file_llseek spufs: use llseek in all file operations arm/omap: use generic_file_llseek in iommu_debug lkdtm: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs net/wireless: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs drm: use noop_llseek
| * llseek: automatically add .llseek fopArnd Bergmann2010-10-151-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a .llseek pointer. The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek. New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek and call nonseekable_open at open time. Existing drivers can be converted to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code relies on calling seek on the device file. The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle. Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window. Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic patch that does all this. ===== begin semantic patch ===== // This adds an llseek= method to all file operations, // as a preparation for making no_llseek the default. // // The rules are // - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open // - use seq_lseek for sequential files // - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos // - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos, // but we still want to allow users to call lseek // @ open1 exists @ identifier nested_open; @@ nested_open(...) { <+... nonseekable_open(...) ...+> } @ open exists@ identifier open_f; identifier i, f; identifier open1.nested_open; @@ int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f) { <+... ( nonseekable_open(...) | nested_open(...) ) ...+> } @ read disable optional_qualifier exists @ identifier read_f; identifier f, p, s, off; type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t; expression E; identifier func; @@ ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off) { <+... ( *off = E | *off += E | func(..., off, ...) | E = *off ) ...+> } @ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @ identifier read_f; identifier f, p, s, off; type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t; @@ ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off) { ... when != off } @ write @ identifier write_f; identifier f, p, s, off; type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t; expression E; identifier func; @@ ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off) { <+... ( *off = E | *off += E | func(..., off, ...) | E = *off ) ...+> } @ write_no_fpos @ identifier write_f; identifier f, p, s, off; type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t; @@ ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off) { ... when != off } @ fops0 @ identifier fops; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... }; @ has_llseek depends on fops0 @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier llseek_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .llseek = llseek_f, ... }; @ has_read depends on fops0 @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier read_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .read = read_f, ... }; @ has_write depends on fops0 @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier write_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .write = write_f, ... }; @ has_open depends on fops0 @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier open_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .open = open_f, ... }; // use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open //////////////////////////////////////////// @ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek && has_open @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open"; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .open = nso, ... +.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */ }; @ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier open.open_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .open = open_f, ... +.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */ }; // use seq_lseek for sequential files ///////////////////////////////////// @ seq depends on !has_llseek @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier sr ~= "seq_read"; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .read = sr, ... +.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */ }; // use default_llseek if there is a readdir /////////////////////////////////////////// @ fops1 depends on !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier readdir_e; @@ // any other fop is used that changes pos struct file_operations fops = { ... .readdir = readdir_e, ... +.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */ }; // use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// @ fops2 depends on !fops1 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier read.read_f; @@ // read fops use offset struct file_operations fops = { ... .read = read_f, ... +.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */ }; @ fops3 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier write.write_f; @@ // write fops use offset struct file_operations fops = { ... .write = write_f, ... + .llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */ }; // Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// @ fops4 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !fops3 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier read_no_fpos.read_f; identifier write_no_fpos.write_f; @@ // write fops use offset struct file_operations fops = { ... .write = write_f, .read = read_f, ... +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */ }; @ depends on has_write && !has_read && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier write_no_fpos.write_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .write = write_f, ... +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */ }; @ depends on has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier read_no_fpos.read_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .read = read_f, ... +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */ }; @ depends on !has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */ }; ===== End semantic patch ===== Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
* | char: Mark /dev/zero and /dev/kmem as not capable of writebackJan Kara2010-09-221-1/+3
|/ | | | | | | | | | These devices don't do any writeback but their device inodes still can get dirty so mark bdi appropriately so that bdi code does the right thing and files inodes to lists of bdi carrying the device inodes. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* Fix init ordering of /dev/console vs callers of modprobeDavid Howells2010-08-061-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make /dev/console get initialised before any initialisation routine that invokes modprobe because if modprobe fails, it's going to want to open /dev/console, presumably to write an error message to. The problem with that is that if the /dev/console driver is not yet initialised, the chardev handler will call request_module() to invoke modprobe, which will fail, because we never compile /dev/console as a module. This will lead to a modprobe loop, showing the following in the kernel log: request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1 request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1 request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1 request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1 request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1 This can happen, for example, when the built in md5 module can't find the built in cryptomgr module (because the latter fails to initialise). The md5 module comes before the call to tty_init(), presumably because 'crypto' comes before 'drivers' alphabetically. Fix this by calling tty_init() from chrdev_init(). Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fs/char_dev.c: remove useless loopRenzo Davoli2009-09-241-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are two useless lines in fs/char_dev.c. In register_chrdev there is a loop to change all '/' into '!' in the kernel object name. This code is useless as the same substitution is in kobject_set_name_vargs in lib/kobject.c: 228 /* ewww... some of these buggers have '/' in the name ... */ 229 while ((s = strchr(kobj->name, '/'))) 230 s[0] = '!'; kobject_set_name_vargs is called by kobject_set_name. kobject_set_name is called just above the useless loop. [hidave.darkstar@gmail.com: fix warning, remove the unused char *s] Signed-off-by: Renzo Davoli <renzo@cs.unibo.it> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-09-111-13/+26
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: (377 commits) ASoC: au1x: PSC-AC97 bugfixes ALSA: dummy - Increase MAX_PCM_SUBSTREAMS to 128 ALSA: dummy - Add debug proc file ALSA: Add const prefix to proc helper functions ALSA: Re-export snd_pcm_format_name() function ALSA: hda - Use auto model for HP laptops with ALC268 codec ALSA: cs46xx - Fix minimum period size ASoC: Fix WM835x Out4 capture enumeration ALSA: Remove unneeded ifdef from sound/core.h ALSA: Remove struct snd_monitor_file from public sound/core.h ASoC: Remove unuused hw_read_t sound: oxygen: work around MCE when changing volume ALSA: dummy - Fake buffer allocations ALSA: hda/realtek: Added support for CLEVO M540R subsystem, 6 channel + digital ASoC: fix pxa2xx-ac97.c breakage ALSA: dummy - Fix the timer calculation in systimer mode ALSA: dummy - Add more description ALSA: dummy - Better jiffies handling ALSA: dummy - Support high-res timer mode ALSA: Release v1.0.21 ...
| * chrdev: implement __[un]register_chrdev()Tejun Heo2009-08-101-13/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [un]register_chrdev() assume minor range 0-255. This patch adds __ prefixed versions which take @minorbase and @count explicitly. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
* | writeback: add name to backing_dev_infoJens Axboe2009-09-111-0/+1
|/ | | | | | | | This enables us to track who does what and print info. Its main use is catching dirty inodes on the default_backing_dev_info, so we can fix that up. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* headers: smp_lock.h reduxAlexey Dobriyan2009-07-121-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | * Remove smp_lock.h from files which don't need it (including some headers!) * Add smp_lock.h to files which do need it * Make smp_lock.h include conditional in hardirq.h It's needed only for one kernel_locked() usage which is under CONFIG_PREEMPT This will make hardirq.h inclusion cheaper for every PREEMPT=n config (which includes allmodconfig/allyesconfig, BTW) Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fs: Remove i_cindex from struct inodeTheodore Ts'o2009-06-111-1/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The only user of the i_cindex element in the inode structure is used is by the firewire drivers. As part of an attempt to slim down the inode structure to save memory --- since a typical Linux system will have hundreds of thousands if not millions of inodes cached, a reduction in the size inode has high leverage. The firewire driver does not need i_cindex in any fast path, so it's simple enough to calculate when it is needed, instead of wasting space in the inode structure. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: krh@redhat.com Cc: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* fs: fix name overwrite in __register_chrdev_region()Cyrill Gorcunov2009-01-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | It's possible to register a chrdev with a name size exactly the same as was allocated in structure. It seems it was not intended behaviour. At least chrdev_show does not like it. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] tidy up chrdev_openChristoph Hellwig2008-10-231-7/+14
| | | | | | | Use a single goto label for chrdev_put + return error cases. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* remove CONFIG_KMOD from fsJohannes Berg2008-10-171-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | Just always compile the code when the kernel is modular. Convert load_nls to use try_then_request_module to tidy up the code. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* Remove the lock_kernel() call from chrdev_open()Jonathan Corbet2008-06-201-4/+1
| | | | | | | All in-kernel char device open() functions now either have their own lock_kernel() calls or clearly do not need one. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* Add a comment in chrdev_open()Jonathan Corbet2008-06-201-0/+2
| | | | | | | | I stared at this code for a while and almost deleted it before understanding crept into my slow brain. Hopefully this makes life easier for the next person to happen on it. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* fs: remove unused fops from struct char_device_structJiri Olsa2008-04-291-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | struct char_device_struct::fops is no longer used: remove it. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* fs/char_dev.c: chrdev_open marked static and removed from fs.hDenis Cheng2008-02-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | There is an outdated comment in serial_core.c also fixed. Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Kobject: rename kobject_init_ng() to kobject_init()Greg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-241-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | Now that the old kobject_init() function is gone, rename kobject_init_ng() to kobject_init() to clean up the namespace. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Kobject: convert fs/char_dev.c to use kobject_init/add_ng()Greg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-241-4/+2
| | | | | | | | This converts the code to use the new kobject functions, cleaning up the logic in doing so. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* mm: bdi init hooksPeter Zijlstra2007-10-171-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | provide BDI constructor/destructor hooks [akpm@linux-foundation.org: compile fix] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* unregister_chrdev() return voidAkinobu Mita2007-07-191-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | unregister_chrdev() does not return meaningful value. This patch makes it return void like most unregister_* functions. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] remove protection of LANANA-reserved majorsAndrew Morton2007-04-041-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Revert all this. It can cause device-mapper to receive a different major from earlier kernels and it turns out that the Amanda backup program (via GNU tar, apparently) checks major numbers on files when performing incremental backups. Which is a bit broken of Amanda (or tar), but this feature isn't important enough to justify the churn. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] rework reserved major handlingAndrew Morton2007-02-201-6/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Several people have reported failures in dynamic major device number handling due to the recent changes in there to avoid handing out the local/experimental majors. Rolf reports that this is due to a gcc-4.1.0 bug. The patch refactors that code a lot in an attempt to provoke the compiler into behaving. Cc: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] register_chrdev_region() don't hand out the LOCAL/EXPERIMENTAL majorsAndrew Morton2007-02-121-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | As pointed out in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7922, dynamic chardev major allocation can hand out majors which LANANA has defined as being for local/experimental use. Cc: Torben Mathiasen <device@lanana.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Tomas Klas <tomas.klas@mepatek.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] BLOCK: Move extern declarations out of fs/*.c into header files [try #6]David Howells2006-09-301-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Create a new header file, fs/internal.h, for common definitions local to the sources in the fs/ directory. Move extern definitions that should be in header files from fs/*.c to fs/internal.h or other main header files where they span directories. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* [PATCH] cdev documentationJonathan Corbet2006-09-291-0/+59
| | | | | | | | | | Add some documentation comments for the cdev interface. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Acked-by: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Chardev checking of overlapping rangesAmos Waterland2006-09-291-5/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The code in __register_chrdev_region checks that if the driver wishing to register has the same major as an existing driver the new minor range is strictly less than the existing minor range. However, it does not also check that the new minor range is strictly greater than the existing minor range. That is, if driver X has registered with major=x and minor=0-3, __register_chrdev_region will allow driver Y to register with major=x and minor=1-4. Signed-off-by: Amos Waterland <apw@us.ibm.com> Cc: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] NOMMU: Set BDI capabilities for /dev/mem and /dev/kmemDavid Howells2006-09-271-0/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Set the backing device info capabilities for /dev/mem and /dev/kmem to permit direct sharing under no-MMU conditions and full mapping capabilities under MMU conditions. Make the BDI used by these available to all directly mappable character devices. Also comment the capabilities for /dev/zero. [akpm@osdl.org: ifdef reductions] Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] add function documentation for register_chrdev()Rolf Eike Beer2006-07-141-0/+22
| | | | | | | | | Documentation for register_chrdev() was missing completely. [akpm@osdl.org: kerneldocification] Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel2006-06-301-1/+0
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* [PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the treeGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-06-261-1/+0
| | | | | | Also fixes up all files that #include it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Simplify proc/devices and fix early termination regressionJoe Korty2006-03-311-76/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make baby-simple the code for /proc/devices. Based on the proven design for /proc/interrupts. This also fixes the early-termination regression 2.6.16 introduced, as demonstrated by: # dd if=/proc/devices bs=1 Character devices: 1 mem 27+0 records in 27+0 records out This should also work (but is untested) when /proc/devices >4096 bytes, which I believe is what the original 2.6.16 rewrite fixed. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, simplifications] Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ constArjan van de Ven2006-03-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a conversion to make the various file_operations structs in fs/ const. Basically a regexp job, with a few manual fixups The goal is both to increase correctness (harder to accidentally write to shared datastructures) and reducing the false sharing of cachelines with things that get dirty in .data (while .rodata is nicely read only and thus cache clean) Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mark f_ops const in the inodeArjan van de Ven2006-03-281-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | Mark the f_ops members of inodes as const, as well as fix the ripple-through this causes by places that copy this f_ops and then "do stuff" with it. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] use kzalloc and kcalloc in core fs codeOliver Neukum2006-03-251-5/+2
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kobj_map semaphore to mutex conversionJes Sorensen2006-03-201-8/+9
| | | | | | | | | Convert the kobj_map code to use a mutex instead of a semaphore. It converts the single two users as well, genhd.c and char_dev.c. Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] convert /proc/devices to use seq_file interfaceNeil Horman2006-01-141-23/+73
| | | | | | | | | | | | A Christoph suggested that the /proc/devices file be converted to use the seq_file interface. This patch does that. I've obxerved one or two installation that had sufficiently large sans that they overran the 4k limit on /proc/devices. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cdev: cdev_put oopsBrian King2005-07-121-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | While fixing an oops in the st driver in a dirty release path, I encountered an oops in cdev_put for cdevs allocated using cdev_alloc. If cdev_del is called when the cdev kobject still has an open user, when the last cdev_put is called, the cdev_put will call kobject_put, which will end up ultimately releasing the cdev in cdev_dynamic_release. Patch fixes the oops by preventing cdev_put from accessing freed memory. Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com> Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fix semaphore handling in __unregister_chrdev_regionWen-chien Jesse Sung2005-06-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | This up() should be down() instead. Signed-off-by: Wen-chien Jesse Sung <jesse@cola.voip.idv.tw> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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