linux.git/fs/proc/internal.h, branch v2.6.35

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

Move junk from proc_fs.h to fs/proc/internal.h

2009-06-12T01:36:01+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

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

NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux

2009-01-08T12:04:47+00:00

Make VMAs per mm_struct as for MMU-mode linux.  This solves two problems:

 (1) In SYSV SHM where nattch for a segment does not reflect the number of
     shmat's (and forks) done.

 (2) In mmap() where the VMA's vm_mm is set to point to the parent mm by an
     exec'ing process when VM_EXECUTABLE is specified, regardless of the fact
     that a VMA might be shared and already have its vm_mm assigned to another
     process or a dead process.

A new struct (vm_region) is introduced to track a mapped region and to remember
the circumstances under which it may be shared and the vm_list_struct structure
is discarded as it's no longer required.

This patch makes the following additional changes:

 (1) Regions are now allocated with alloc_pages() rather than kmalloc() and
     with no recourse to __GFP_COMP, so the pages are not composite.  Instead,
     each page has a reference on it held by the region.  Anything else that is
     interested in such a page will have to get a reference on it to retain it.
     When the pages are released due to unmapping, each page is passed to
     put_page() and will be freed when the page usage count reaches zero.

 (2) Excess pages are trimmed after an allocation as the allocation must be
     made as a power-of-2 quantity of pages.

 (3) VMAs are added to the parent MM's R/B tree and mmap lists.  As an MM may
     end up with overlapping VMAs within the tree, the VMA struct address is
     appended to the sort key.

 (4) Non-anonymous VMAs are now added to the backing inode's prio list.

 (5) Holes may be punched in anonymous VMAs with munmap(), releasing parts of
     the backing region.  The VMA and region structs will be split if
     necessary.

 (6) sys_shmdt() only releases one attachment to a SYSV IPC shared memory
     segment instead of all the attachments at that addresss.  Multiple
     shmat()'s return the same address under NOMMU-mode instead of different
     virtual addresses as under MMU-mode.

 (7) Core dumping for ELF-FDPIC requires fewer exceptions for NOMMU-mode.

 (8) /proc/maps is now the global list of mapped regions, and may list bits
     that aren't actually mapped anywhere.

 (9) /proc/meminfo gains a line (tagged "MmapCopy") that indicates the amount
     of RAM currently allocated by mmap to hold mappable regions that can't be
     mapped directly.  These are copies of the backing device or file if not
     anonymous.

These changes make NOMMU mode more similar to MMU mode.  The downside is that
NOMMU mode requires some extra memory to track things over NOMMU without this
patch (VMAs are no longer shared, and there are now region structs).

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Tested-by: Mike Frysinger 
Acked-by: Paul Mundt

proc: move /proc/kmsg creation to fs/proc/kmsg.c

2008-10-23T10:35:08+00:00

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan

proc: proc_init_inodecache() can't fail

2008-10-23T09:27:50+00:00

kmem_cache creation code will panic, don't return anything.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan

proc: remove kernel.maps_protect

2008-10-10T00:24:51+00:00

After commit 831830b5a2b5d413407adf380ef62fe17d6fcbf2 aka
"restrict reading from /proc//maps to those who share ->mm or can ptrace"
sysctl stopped being relevant because commit moved security checks from ->show
time to ->start time (mm_for_maps()).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Acked-by: Kees Cook

proc: always do ->release

2008-07-25T17:53:44+00:00

Current two-stage scheme of removing PDE emphasizes one bug in proc:

		open
				rmmod
				remove_proc_entry
		close

->release won't be called because ->proc_fops were cleared.  In simple
cases it's small memory leak.

For every ->open, ->release has to be done.  List of openers is introduced
which is traversed at remove_proc_entry() if neeeded.

Discussions with Al long ago (sigh).

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

move proc_kmsg_operations to fs/proc/internal.h

2008-07-25T17:53:44+00:00

This patch moves the extern of struct proc_kmsg_operations to
fs/proc/internal.h and adds an #include "internal.h" to fs/proc/kmsg.c
so that the latter sees the former.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

proc: remove proc_root from drivers

2008-04-29T15:06:18+00:00

Remove proc_root export.  Creation and removal works well if parent PDE is
supplied as NULL -- it worked always that way.

So, one useless export removed and consistency added, some drivers created
PDEs with &proc_root as parent but removed them as NULL and so on.

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