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* [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mountDavid Howells2006-06-231-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint. The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry pointers. For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt() which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour). The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the superblock pointer. This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing. In such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root and mnt_sb would be set directly. The patch also makes the following changes: (*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change very little. (*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb(). (*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon(). This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that aren't actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root, and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in dentries being left unculled. However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for '/' may well be inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries with child trees. [*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree. (*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation. [akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff] Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sysfs: Allow sysfs attribute files to be pollableNeilBrown2006-04-143-0/+78
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It works like this: Open the file Read all the contents. Call poll requesting POLLERR or POLLPRI (so select/exceptfds works) When poll returns, close the file and go to top of loop. or lseek to start of file and go back to the 'read'. Events are signaled by an object manager calling sysfs_notify(kobj, dir, attr); If the dir is non-NULL, it is used to find a subdirectory which contains the attribute (presumably created by sysfs_create_group). This has a cost of one int per attribute, one wait_queuehead per kobject, one int per open file. The name "sysfs_notify" may be confused with the inotify functionality. Maybe it would be nice to support inotify for sysfs attributes as well? This patch also uses sysfs_notify to allow /sys/block/md*/md/sync_action to be pollable Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] sysfs: zero terminate sysfs write buffersGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-04-021-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | No one should be writing a PAGE_SIZE worth of data to a normal sysfs file, so properly terminate the buffer. Thanks to Al Viro for pointing out my supidity here. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Documentation: fix minor kernel-doc warningsMartin Waitz2006-04-021-1/+1
| | | | | | | This patch updates the comments to match the actual code. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/sysfs/Eric Sesterhenn2006-04-011-2/+1
| | | | | | | | this changes if() BUG(); constructs to BUG_ON() which is cleaner, contains unlikely() and can better optimized away. Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* [PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ constArjan van de Ven2006-03-284-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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] sysfs: fix a kobject leak in sysfs_add_link on the error pathGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-03-201-0/+1
| | | | | | | | As pointed out by Oliver Neukum. Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] sysfs: don't export dir symbolsGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-03-201-4/+0
| | | | | | | | These functions should only be used by the kobject core, and if any driver tries to use them, bad things happen. Unexport them to try to prevent this from happening. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] sysfs: fix problem with duplicate sysfs directories and filesManeesh Soni2006-03-204-5/+39
| | | | | | | | The following patch checks for existing sysfs_dirent before preparing new one while creating sysfs directories and files. Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] sysfs: kzalloc conversionEric Sesterhenn2006-03-202-4/+2
| | | | | | | | this converts fs/sysfs to kzalloc() usage. compile tested with make allyesconfig Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] sysfs: sysfs_remove_dir() needs to invalidate the dentryGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-03-202-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | When calling sysfs_remove_dir() don't allow any further sysfs functions to work for this kobject anymore. This fixes a nasty USB cdc-acm oops on disconnect. Many thanks to Bob Copeland and Paul Fulghum for taking the time to track this down. Cc: Bob Copeland <email@bobcopeland.com> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] capable/capability.h (fs/)Randy Dunlap2006-01-111-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | fs: Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_semJes Sorensen2006-01-094-33/+28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your luck with it might be different. Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> (finished the conversion) Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* [PATCH] sysfs: handle failures in sysfs_make_direntSteven Rostedt2006-01-041-1/+5
| | | | | | | | I noticed that if sysfs_make_dirent fails to allocate the sd, then a null will be passed to sysfs_put. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Fix oops in sysfs_hash_and_remove_file()James Bottomley2005-08-261-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The problem arises if an entity in sysfs is created and removed without ever having been made completely visible. In SCSI this is triggered by removing a device while it's initialising. The problem appears to be that because it was never made visible in sysfs, the sysfs dentry has a null d_inode which oopses when a reference is made to it. The solution is simply to check d_inode and assume the object was never made visible (and thus doesn't need deleting) if it's NULL. (akpm: possibly a stopgap for 2.6.13 scsi problems. May not be the long-term fix) Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Fix nasty ncpfs symlink handling bug.Linus Torvalds2005-08-191-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This bug could cause oopses and page state corruption, because ncpfs used the generic page-cache symlink handlign functions. But those functions only work if the page cache is guaranteed to be "stable", ie a page that was installed when the symlink walk was started has to still be installed in the page cache at the end of the walk. We could have fixed ncpfs to not use the generic helper routines, but it is in many ways much cleaner to instead improve on the symlink walking helper routines so that they don't require that absolute stability. We do this by allowing "follow_link()" to return a error-pointer as a cookie, which is fed back to the cleanup "put_link()" routine. This also simplifies NFS symlink handling. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sysfs: fix sysfs_setattrManeesh Soni2005-07-291-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | o sysfs_dirent's s_mode field should also be updated in sysfs_setattr(), else there could be inconsistency in the two fields. s_mode is used while ->readdir so as not to bring in the inode to cache. Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sysfs: fix sysfs_chmod_fileManeesh Soni2005-07-291-8/+10
| | | | | | | | | | o sysfs_chmod_file() must update the new iattr field in sysfs_dirent else the mode change will not be persistent in case of inode evacuation from cache. Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] inotifyRobert Love2005-07-121-5/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly its inability to scale and its terrible user interface: * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount. * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of stat structures. * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful. Signals? inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change notification: * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO. You get a single fd, which is select()-able. * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item you were watching is on was unmounted." * inotify can watch directories or files. Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure), Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects. See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] DocBook: update commentsMartin Waitz2005-06-241-2/+3
| | | | | | | | This patch updates some comments to match code changes. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] remove duplicate get_dentry functions in various placesChristoph Hellwig2005-06-235-16/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Various filesystem drivers have grown a get_dentry() function that's a duplicate of lookup_one_len, except that it doesn't take a maximum length argument and doesn't check for \0 or / in the passed in filename. Switch all these places to use lookup_one_len. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] SYSFS: fix PAGE_SIZE checkJon Smirl2005-06-201-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Without this change I can't set an attribute exactly PAGE_SIZE in length. There is no need for zero termination because the interface uses lengths. From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] sysfs-iattr: set inode attributesManeesh Soni2005-06-203-8/+35
| | | | | | | | | o Following patch sets the attributes for newly allocated inodes for sysfs objects. If the object has non-default attributes, inode attributes are set as saved in sysfs_dirent->s_iattr, pointer to struct iattr. Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] sysfs-iattr: add sysfs_setattrManeesh Soni2005-06-203-0/+68
| | | | | | | | | | | o This adds ->i_op->setattr VFS method for sysfs inodes. The changed attribues are saved in the persistent sysfs_dirent structure as a pointer to struct iattr. The struct iattr is allocated only for those sysfs_dirent's for which default attributes are getting changed. Thanks to Jon Smirl for this suggestion. Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] sysfs-iattr: attach sysfs_dirent before new inodeManeesh Soni2005-06-201-10/+15
| | | | | | | | | | o The following patch makes sure to attach sysfs_dirent to the dentry before allocation a new inode through sysfs_create(). This change is done as preparatory work for implementing ->i_op->setattr() functionality for sysfs objects. Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] sysfs: if show/store is missing return -EIODmitry Torokhov2005-06-202-4/+4
| | | | | | | | sysfs: if attribute does not implement show or store method read/write should return -EIO instead of 0 or -EINVAL. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] sysfs_{create|remove}_link should take const char *Dmitry Torokhov2005-06-201-4/+4
| | | | | | | sysfs: make sysfs_{create|remove}_link to take const char * name. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] DocBook: fix some descriptionsMartin Waitz2005-05-011-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | Some KernelDoc descriptions are updated to match the current code. No code changes. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sysfs: add sysfs_chmod_file()Kay Sievers2005-04-181-0/+35
| | | | | | | | sysfs: allow changing the permissions for already created attributes Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-169-0/+1763
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
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