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<title>sysfs: Support sysfs_notify from atomic context with new sysfs_notify_dirent</title>
<updated>2008-10-16T16:24:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Neil Brown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
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<published>2008-07-15T22:58:04+00:00</published>
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Support sysfs_notify from atomic context with new sysfs_notify_dirent

sysfs_notify currently takes sysfs_mutex.
This means that it cannot be called in atomic context.
sysfs_mutex  is sometimes held over a malloc (sysfs_rename_dir)
so it can block on low memory.

In md I want to be able to notify on a sysfs attribute from
atomic context, and I don't want to block on low memory because I
could be in the writeout path for freeing memory.

So:
 - export the "sysfs_dirent" structure along with sysfs_get, sysfs_put
   and sysfs_get_dirent so I can get the sysfs_dirent that I want to
   notify on and hold it in an md structure.
 - split sysfs_notify_dirent out of sysfs_notify so the sysfs_dirent
   can be notified on with no blocking (just a spinlock).

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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Support sysfs_notify from atomic context with new sysfs_notify_dirent

sysfs_notify currently takes sysfs_mutex.
This means that it cannot be called in atomic context.
sysfs_mutex  is sometimes held over a malloc (sysfs_rename_dir)
so it can block on low memory.

In md I want to be able to notify on a sysfs attribute from
atomic context, and I don't want to block on low memory because I
could be in the writeout path for freeing memory.

So:
 - export the "sysfs_dirent" structure along with sysfs_get, sysfs_put
   and sysfs_get_dirent so I can get the sysfs_dirent that I want to
   notify on and hold it in an md structure.
 - split sysfs_notify_dirent out of sysfs_notify so the sysfs_dirent
   can be notified on with no blocking (just a spinlock).

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<title>driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().</title>
<updated>2008-07-22T04:55:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cornelia Huck</name>
<email>cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2008-06-10T09:09:08+00:00</published>
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driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().

Renaming network devices to an already existing name is not
something we want sysfs to print a scary warning for, since the
callers can deal with this correctly. So let's introduce
sysfs_create_link_nowarn() which gets rid of the common warning.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().

Renaming network devices to an already existing name is not
something we want sysfs to print a scary warning for, since the
callers can deal with this correctly. So let's introduce
sysfs_create_link_nowarn() which gets rid of the common warning.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<title>[SCSI] sysfs: make group is_valid return a mode_t</title>
<updated>2008-04-22T20:16:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Bottomley</name>
<email>James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com</email>
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<published>2008-03-21T01:47:52+00:00</published>
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We have a problem in scsi_transport_spi in that we need to customise
not only the visibility of the attributes, but also their mode.  Fix
this by making the is_visible() callback return a mode, with 0
indicating is not visible.

Also add a sysfs_update_group() API to allow us to change either the
visibility or mode of the files at any time on the fly.

Acked-by: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
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We have a problem in scsi_transport_spi in that we need to customise
not only the visibility of the attributes, but also their mode.  Fix
this by making the is_visible() callback return a mode, with 0
indicating is not visible.

Also add a sysfs_update_group() API to allow us to change either the
visibility or mode of the files at any time on the fly.

Acked-by: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
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<title>sysfs: make sysfs_{get,put}_active() static</title>
<updated>2007-10-31T04:52:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Bunk</name>
<email>bunk@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2007-10-24T16:23:32+00:00</published>
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sysfs_{get,put}_active() can now become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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sysfs_{get,put}_active() can now become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<title>mm: bdi init hooks</title>
<updated>2007-10-17T15:42:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-17T06:25:46+00:00</published>
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provide BDI constructor/destructor hooks

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: compile fix]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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provide BDI constructor/destructor hooks

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: compile fix]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sysfs: add copyrights</title>
<updated>2007-10-12T21:51:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-09-20T08:31:38+00:00</published>
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Sysfs has gone through considerable amount of reimplementation.  Add
copyrights.  Any objections?  :-)

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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Sysfs has gone through considerable amount of reimplementation.  Add
copyrights.  Any objections?  :-)

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<title>sysfs: move sysfs file poll implementation to sysfs_open_dirent</title>
<updated>2007-10-12T21:51:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-09-20T07:05:12+00:00</published>
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Sysfs file poll implementation is scattered over sysfs and kobject.
Event numbering is done in sysfs_dirent but wait itself is done on
kobject.  This not only unecessarily bloats both kobject and
sysfs_dirent but is also buggy - if a sysfs_dirent is removed while
there still are pollers, the associaton betwen the kobject and
sysfs_dirent breaks and kobject may be freed with the pollers still
sleeping on it.

This patch moves whole poll implementation into sysfs_open_dirent.
Each time a sysfs_open_dirent is created, event number restarts from 1
and pollers sleep on sysfs_open_dirent.  As event sequence number is
meaningless without any open file and pollers should have open file
and thus sysfs_open_dirent, this ephemeral event counting works and is
a saner implementation.

This patch fixes the dnagling sleepers bug and reduces the sizes of
kobject and sysfs_dirent by one pointer.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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Sysfs file poll implementation is scattered over sysfs and kobject.
Event numbering is done in sysfs_dirent but wait itself is done on
kobject.  This not only unecessarily bloats both kobject and
sysfs_dirent but is also buggy - if a sysfs_dirent is removed while
there still are pollers, the associaton betwen the kobject and
sysfs_dirent breaks and kobject may be freed with the pollers still
sleeping on it.

This patch moves whole poll implementation into sysfs_open_dirent.
Each time a sysfs_open_dirent is created, event number restarts from 1
and pollers sleep on sysfs_open_dirent.  As event sequence number is
meaningless without any open file and pollers should have open file
and thus sysfs_open_dirent, this ephemeral event counting works and is
a saner implementation.

This patch fixes the dnagling sleepers bug and reduces the sizes of
kobject and sysfs_dirent by one pointer.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<title>sysfs: implement sysfs_open_dirent</title>
<updated>2007-10-12T21:51:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-09-20T07:05:12+00:00</published>
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Implement sysfs_open_dirent which represents an open file (attribute)
sysfs_dirent.  A file sysfs_dirent with one or more open files have
one sysfs_dirent and all sysfs_buffers (one for each open instance)
are linked to it.

sysfs_open_dirent doesn't actually do anything yet but will be used to
off-load things which are specific for open file sysfs_dirent from it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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Implement sysfs_open_dirent which represents an open file (attribute)
sysfs_dirent.  A file sysfs_dirent with one or more open files have
one sysfs_dirent and all sysfs_buffers (one for each open instance)
are linked to it.

sysfs_open_dirent doesn't actually do anything yet but will be used to
off-load things which are specific for open file sysfs_dirent from it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<title>sysfs: move sysfs_dirent-&gt;s_children into sysfs_dirent-&gt;s_dir</title>
<updated>2007-10-12T21:51:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-09-20T07:05:12+00:00</published>
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Children list head is only meaninful for directory nodes.  Move it
into s_dir.  This doesn't save any space currently but it will with
further changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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Children list head is only meaninful for directory nodes.  Move it
into s_dir.  This doesn't save any space currently but it will with
further changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<title>sysfs: make sysfs_root a regular directory dirent</title>
<updated>2007-10-12T21:51:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-09-20T07:05:12+00:00</published>
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sysfs_root is different from a regular directory dirent in that it's
of type SYSFS_ROOT and doesn't have a name.  These differences aren't
used by anybody and only adds to complexity.  Make sysfs_root a
regular directory dirent.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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sysfs_root is different from a regular directory dirent in that it's
of type SYSFS_ROOT and doesn't have a name.  These differences aren't
used by anybody and only adds to complexity.  Make sysfs_root a
regular directory dirent.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;htejun@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck &lt;cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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