linux.git/fs/proc/generic.c, branch v2.6.34

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

proc: warn on non-existing proc entries

2010-03-06T19:26:45+00:00

* warn if creation goes on to non-existent directory
* warn if removal goes on from non-existing directory
* warn if non-existing proc entry is removed

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proc: do translation + unlink atomically at remove_proc_entry()

2010-03-06T19:26:45+00:00

remove_proc_entry() does

	lock
	lookup parent
	unlock
	lock
	unlink proc entry from lists
	unlock

which can be made bit more correct by doing parent translation + unlink
without dropping lock.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

some clean up in fs/proc

2010-03-03T18:00:18+00:00

EXPORT_SYMBOL(proc_symlink);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(proc_mkdir);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(create_proc_entry);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(proc_create_data);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(remove_proc_entry);

Those EXPORT_SYMBOL shouldn't be in fs/proc/root.c,
should be in fs/proc/generic.c.

Signed-off-by: Helight.Xu 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

proc: rename de_get() to pde_get() and inline it

2009-12-16T15:19:57+00:00

* de_get() is trivial -- make inline, save a few bits of code, drop
  "refcount is 0" check -- it should be done in some generic refcount
  code, don't recall it's was helpful

* rename GET and PUT functions to pde_get(), pde_put() for cool prefix!

* remove obvious and incorrent comments

* in remove_proc_entry() use pde_put(), when I fixed PDE refcounting to
  be normal one, remove_proc_entry() was supposed to do "-1" and code now
  reflects that.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proc 1/2: do PDE usecounting even for ->read_proc, ->write_proc

2009-03-30T21:14:27+00:00

struct proc_dir_entry::owner is going to be removed. Now it's only necessary
to protect PDEs which are using ->read_proc, ->write_proc hooks.

However, ->owner assignments are racy and make it very easy for someone to switch
->owner on live PDE (as some subsystems do) without fixing refcounts and so on.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12454

So, ->owner is on death row.

Proxy file operations exist already (proc_file_operations), just bump usecount
when necessary.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan

proc: move fs/proc/inode-alloc.txt comment into a source file

2009-03-30T21:13:12+00:00

so that people will realize that it exists and can update it as needed.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan

constify dentry_operations: procfs

2009-03-27T18:44:01+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

proc: stop using BKL

2009-01-05T09:27:44+00:00

There are four BKL users in proc: de_put(), proc_lookup_de(),
proc_readdir_de(), proc_root_readdir(),

1) de_put()
-----------
de_put() is classic atomic_dec_and_test() refcount wrapper -- no BKL
needed. BKL doesn't matter to possible refcount leak as well.

2) proc_lookup_de()
-------------------
Walking PDE list is protected by proc_subdir_lock(), proc_get_inode() is
potentially blocking, all callers of proc_lookup_de() eventually end up
from ->lookup hooks which is protected by directory's ->i_mutex -- BKL
doesn't protect anything.

3) proc_readdir_de()
--------------------
"." and ".." part doesn't need BKL, walking PDE list is under
proc_subdir_lock, calling filldir callback is potentially blocking
because it writes to luserspace. All proc_readdir_de() callers
eventually come from ->readdir hook which is under directory's
->i_mutex -- BKL doesn't protect anything.

4) proc_root_readdir_de()
-------------------------
proc_root_readdir_de is ->readdir hook, see (3).

Since readdir hooks doesn't use BKL anymore, switch to
generic_file_llseek, since it also takes directory's i_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan

proc: use WARN() rather than printk+backtrace

2008-10-23T09:34:38+00:00

Use WARN() rather than a printk() + backtrace();
this gives a more standard format message as well as complete
information (including line numbers etc) that will be collected
by kerneloops.org

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan