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2013-11-07Revert "sysfs: drop kobj_ns_type handling"Linus Torvalds1-7/+18
This reverts commit cb26a311578e67769e92a39a0a63476533cb7e12. It mysteriously causes NetworkManager to not find the wireless device for me. As far as I can tell, Tejun *meant* for this commit to not make any semantic changes, but there clearly are some. So revert it, taking into account some of the calling convention changes that happened in this area in subsequent commits. Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-01sysfs: rename sysfs_assoc_lock and explain what it's aboutTejun Heo1-1/+1
sysfs_assoc_lock is an odd piece of locking. In general, whoever owns a kobject is responsible for synchronizing sysfs operations and sysfs proper assumes that, for example, removal won't race with any other operation; however, this doesn't work for symlinking because an entity performing symlink doesn't usually own the target kobject and thus has no control over its removal. sysfs_assoc_lock synchronizes symlink operations against kobj->sd disassociation so that symlink code doesn't end up dereferencing already freed sysfs_dirent by racing with removal of the target kobject. This is quite obscure and the generic name of the lock and lack of comments make it difficult to understand its role. Let's rename it to sysfs_symlink_target_lock and add comments explaining what's going on. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-29sysfs: separate out dup filename warning into a separate functionTejun Heo1-0/+1
Separate out sysfs_warn_dup() out of sysfs_add_one(). This will help separating out the core sysfs functionalities into kernfs so that it can be used by non-sysfs users too. This doesn't make any functional changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-29sysfs: move sysfs_hash_and_remove() to fs/sysfs/dir.cTejun Heo1-3/+2
Most removal related logic is implemented in fs/sysfs/dir.c. Move sysfs_hash_and_remove() to fs/sysfs/dir.c so that __sysfs_remove() doesn't have to be public. This is pure relocation. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-29sysfs: remove unused sysfs_get_dentry() prototypeTejun Heo1-1/+0
sysfs_get_dentry() has been gone for years now. Remove the left-over prototype. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-29sysfs: honor bin_attr.attr.ignore_lockdepTejun Heo1-1/+3
ignore_lockdep is currently honored only for regular files. There's no reason to ignore it for bin files. Update sysfs_ignore_lockdep() so that bin_attr.attr.ignore_lockdep works too. While this doesn't have any in-kernel user, this unifies the behaviors between regular and bin files and will help later changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-29sysfs: merge sysfs_elem_bin_attr into sysfs_elem_attrTejun Heo1-7/+4
3124eb1679 ("sysfs: merge regular and bin file handling") folded bin file handling into regular file handling. Among other things, bin file now shares the same open path including sysfs_open_dirent association using sysfs_dirent->s_attr.open. This is buggy because ->s_bin_attr lives in the same union and doesn't have the field. This bug doesn't trigger because sysfs_elem_bin_attr doesn't have an active field at the conflicting position. It does have a field "buffers" but it isn't used anymore. This patch collapses sysfs_elem_bin_attr into sysfs_elem_attr so that the bin_attr is accessed through ->s_attr.bin_attr which lives with ->s_attr.attr in an anonymous union. The code paths already assume bin_attr contains attr as the first element, so this doesn't add any more assumptions while making it explicit that the two types are handled together. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-14sysfs: make sysfs_file_ops() follow ignore_lockdep flagTejun Heo1-0/+16
375b611e60 ("sysfs: remove sysfs_buffer->ops") introduced sysfs_file_ops() which determines the associated file operation of a given sysfs_dirent. As file ops access should be protected by an active reference, the new function includes a lockdep assertion on the sysfs_dirent; unfortunately, I forgot to take attr->ignore_lockdep flag into account and the lockdep assertion trips spuriously for files which opt out from active reference lockdep checking. # cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/usb1/authorized ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 540 at /work/os/work/fs/sysfs/file.c:79 sysfs_file_ops+0x4e/0x60() Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 540 Comm: cat Not tainted 3.11.0-work+ #3 Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 0000000000000009 ffff880016205c08 ffffffff81ca0131 0000000000000000 ffff880016205c40 ffffffff81096d0d ffff8800166cb898 ffff8800166f6f60 ffffffff8125a220 ffff880011ab1ec0 ffff88000aff0c78 ffff880016205c50 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81ca0131>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x82 [<ffffffff81096d0d>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7d/0xa0 [<ffffffff81096dea>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff8125994e>] sysfs_file_ops+0x4e/0x60 [<ffffffff8125a274>] sysfs_open_file+0x54/0x300 [<ffffffff811df612>] do_dentry_open.isra.17+0x182/0x280 [<ffffffff811df820>] finish_open+0x30/0x40 [<ffffffff811f0623>] do_last+0x503/0xd90 [<ffffffff811f0f6b>] path_openat+0xbb/0x6d0 [<ffffffff811f23ba>] do_filp_open+0x3a/0x90 [<ffffffff811e09a9>] do_sys_open+0x129/0x220 [<ffffffff811e0abe>] SyS_open+0x1e/0x20 [<ffffffff81caf3c2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b ---[ end trace aa48096b111dafdb ]--- Rename fs/sysfs/dir.c::ignore_lockdep() to sysfs_ignore_lockdep() and move it to fs/sysfs/sysfs.h and make sysfs_file_ops() skip lockdep assertion if sysfs_ignore_lockdep() is true. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-05sysfs: merge regular and bin file handlingTejun Heo1-6/+0
With the previous changes, sysfs regular file code is ready to handle bin files too. This patch makes bin files share the regular file path. * sysfs_create/remove_bin_file() are moved to fs/sysfs/file.c. * sysfs_init_inode() is updated to use the new sysfs_bin_operations instead of bin_fops for bin files. * fs/sysfs/bin.c and the related pieces are removed. This patch shouldn't introduce any behavior difference to bin file accesses. Overall, this unification reduces the amount of duplicate logic, makes behaviors more consistent and paves the road for building simpler and more versatile interface which will allow other subsystems to make use of sysfs for their pseudo filesystems. v2: Stale fs/sysfs/bin.c reference dropped from Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl. Reported by kbuild test robot. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Cc: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-05sysfs: copy bin mmap support from fs/sysfs/bin.c to fs/sysfs/file.cTejun Heo1-0/+2
sysfs bin file handling will be merged into the regular file support. This patch copies mmap support from bin so that fs/sysfs/file.c can handle mmapping bin files. The code is copied mostly verbatim with the following updates. * ->mmapped and ->vm_ops are added to sysfs_open_file and bin_buffer references are replaced with sysfs_open_file ones. * Symbols are prefixed with sysfs_. * sysfs_unmap_bin_file() grabs sysfs_open_dirent and traverses ->files. Invocation of this function is added to sysfs_addrm_finish(). * sysfs_bin_mmap() is added to sysfs_bin_operations. This is a preparation and the new mmap path isn't used yet. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-05sysfs: prepare path write for unified regular / bin file handlingTejun Heo1-0/+1
sysfs bin file handling will be merged into the regular file support. This patch prepares the write path. bin file write is almost identical to regular file write except that the write length is capped by the inode size and @off is passed to the write method. This patch adds bin file handling to sysfs_write_file() so that it can handle both regular and bin files. A new file_operations struct sysfs_bin_operations is added, which currently only hosts sysfs_write_file() and generic_file_llseek(). This isn't used yet but will eventually replace fs/sysfs/bin.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-03sysfs: introduce [__]sysfs_remove()Tejun Heo1-2/+2
Given a sysfs_dirent, there is no reason to have multiple versions of removal functions. A function which removes the specified sysfs_dirent and its descendants is enough. This patch intorduces [__}sysfs_remove() which replaces all internal variations of removal functions. This will be the only removal function in the planned new sysfs_dirent based interface. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-03sysfs: remove sysfs_addrm_cxt->parent_sdTejun Heo1-5/+5
sysfs_addrm_start/finish() enclose sysfs_dirent additions and deletions and sysfs_addrm_cxt is used to record information necessary to finish the operations. Currently, sysfs_addrm_start() takes @parent_sd, records it in sysfs_addrm_cxt, and assumes that all operations in the block are performed under that @parent_sd. This assumption has been fine until now but we want to make some operations behave recursively and, while having @parent_sd recorded in sysfs_addrm_cxt doesn't necessarily prevents that, it becomes confusing. This patch removes sysfs_addrm_cxt->parent_sd and makes sysfs_add_one() take an explicit @parent_sd parameter. Note that sysfs_remove_one() doesn't need the extra argument as its parent is always known from the target @sd. While at it, add __acquires/releases() notations to sysfs_addrm_start/finish() respectively. This patch doesn't make any functional difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-09-26sysfs: @name comes before @nsTejun Heo1-5/+5
Some internal sysfs functions which take explicit namespace argument are weird in that they place the optional @ns in front of @name which is contrary to the established convention. This is confusing and error-prone especially as @ns and @name may be interchanged without causing compilation warning. Swap the positions of @name and @ns in the following internal functions. sysfs_find_dirent() sysfs_rename() sysfs_hash_and_remove() sysfs_name_hash() sysfs_name_compare() create_dir() This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-09-26sysfs: clean up sysfs_get_dirent()Tejun Heo1-3/+0
The pre-existing sysfs interfaces which take explicit namespace argument are weird in that they place the optional @ns in front of @name which is contrary to the established convention. For example, we end up forcing vast majority of sysfs_get_dirent() users to do sysfs_get_dirent(parent, NULL, name), which is silly and error-prone especially as @ns and @name may be interchanged without causing compilation warning. This renames sysfs_get_dirent() to sysfs_get_dirent_ns() and swap the positions of @name and @ns, and sysfs_get_dirent() is now a wrapper around sysfs_get_dirent_ns(). This makes confusions a lot less likely. There are other interfaces which take @ns before @name. They'll be updated by following patches. This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes. v2: EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() wasn't updated leading to undefined symbol error on module builds. Reported by build test robot. Fixed. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-09-26sysfs: drop kobj_ns_type handlingTejun Heo1-18/+7
The way namespace tags are implemented in sysfs is more complicated than necessary. As each tag is a pointer value and required to be non-NULL under a namespace enabled parent, there's no need to record separately what type each tag is or where namespace is enabled. If multiple namespace types are needed, which currently aren't, we can simply compare the tag to a set of allowed tags in the superblock assuming that the tags, being pointers, won't have the same value across multiple types. Also, whether to filter by namespace tag or not can be trivially determined by whether the node has any tagged children or not. This patch rips out kobj_ns_type handling from sysfs. sysfs no longer cares whether specific type of namespace is enabled or not. If a sysfs_dirent has a non-NULL tag, the parent is marked as needing namespace filtering and the value is tested against the allowed set of tags for the superblock (currently only one but increasing this number isn't difficult) and the sysfs_dirent is ignored if it doesn't match. This removes most kobject namespace knowledge from sysfs proper which will enable proper separation and layering of sysfs. The namespace sanity checks in fs/sysfs/dir.c are replaced by the new sanity check in kobject_namespace(). As this is the only place ktype->namespace() is called for sysfs, this doesn't weaken the sanity check significantly. I omitted converting the sanity check in sysfs_do_create_link_sd(). While the check can be shifted to upper layer, mistakes there are well contained and should be easily visible anyway. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-09-26sysfs: make attr namespace interface less convolutedTejun Heo1-2/+3
sysfs ns (namespace) implementation became more convoluted than necessary while trying to hide ns information from visible interface. The relatively recent attr ns support is a good example. * attr ns tag is determined by sysfs_ops->namespace() callback while dir tag is determined by kobj_type->namespace(). The placement is arbitrary. * Instead of performing operations with explicit ns tag, the namespace callback is routed through sysfs_attr_ns(), sysfs_ops->namespace(), class_attr_namespace(), class_attr->namespace(). It's not simpler in any sense. The only thing this convolution does is traversing the whole stack backwards. The namespace callbacks are unncessary because the operations involved are inherently synchronous. The information can be provided in in straight-forward top-down direction and reversing that direction is unnecessary and against basic design principles. This backward interface is unnecessarily convoluted and hinders properly separating out sysfs from driver model / kobject for proper layering. This patch updates attr ns support such that * sysfs_ops->namespace() and class_attr->namespace() are dropped. * sysfs_{create|remove}_file_ns(), which take explicit @ns param, are added and sysfs_{create|remove}_file() are now simple wrappers around the ns aware functions. * ns handling is dropped from sysfs_chmod_file(). Nobody uses it at this point. sysfs_chmod_file_ns() can be added later if necessary. * Explicit @ns is propagated through class_{create|remove}_file_ns() and netdev_class_{create|remove}_file_ns(). * driver/net/bonding which is currently the only user of attr namespace is updated to use netdev_class_{create|remove}_file_ns() with @bh->net as the ns tag instead of using the namespace callback. This patch should be an equivalent conversion without any functional difference. It makes the code easier to follow, reduces lines of code a bit and helps proper separation and layering. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-08-21sysfs: sysfs.h: fix coding style issuesGreg Kroah-Hartman1-8/+10
This fixes up the remaining coding style issues in sysfs.h Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-25sysfs: Functions for adding/removing symlinks to/from attribute groupsRafael J. Wysocki1-0/+2
The most convenient way to expose ACPI power resources lists of a device is to put symbolic links to sysfs directories representing those resources into special attribute groups in the device's sysfs directory. For this purpose, it is necessary to be able to add symbolic links to attribute groups. For this reason, add sysfs helper functions for adding/removing symbolic links to/from attribute groups, sysfs_add_link_to_group() and sysfs_remove_link_from_group(), respectively. This change set includes a build fix from David Rientjes. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-07-14sysfs: switch to ->s_d_op and ->d_release()Al Viro1-0/+1
a) ->d_iput() is wrong here - what we do to inode is completely usual, it's dentry->d_fsdata that we want to drop. Just use ->d_release(). b) switch to ->s_d_op - no need to play with d_set_d_op() Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-08Revert "sysfs: Kill nlink counting."Greg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+1
This reverts commit 524b6c5b39b931311dfe5a2f5abae2f5c9731676. It has shown to break userspace tools, which is not acceptable. Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-01-24sysfs: Kill nlink counting.Eric W. Biederman1-1/+0
Tracking the number of subdirectories requires an extra field that increases the size of sysfs_dirent. nlinks are not particularly interesting for sysfs and the nlink counts are wrong when network namespaces are involved so stop counting them, and always return nlink == 1. Userspace already knows that directories with nlink == 1 have an nlink count they can't use to count subdirectories. This reduces the size of sysfs_dirent by 8 bytes on 64bit platforms. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2012-01-24sysfs: Store the sysfs inode in an unsigned int.Eric W. Biederman1-1/+1
Store the sysfs inode number in an unsided int because ida inode allocator can return at most a 31 bit number, reducing the size of struct sysfs_dirent by 8 bytes on 64bit platforms. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2012-01-24sysfs: Reduce s_flags to an unsinged short so it packs well with s_modeEric W. Biederman1-3/+3
On 32bit this reduces sizeof(struct sysfs_dirent) by 2 bytes. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2012-01-24sysfs: Add s_hash to sysfs_dirent and order directory entries by hashEric W. Biederman1-5/+4
Compute a 31 bit hash of directory entries (that can fit in a signed 32bit off_t) and index the sysfs directory entries by that hash, replacing the per directory indexes by name and by inode. Because we now only use a single rbtree this reduces the size of sysfs_dirent by 2 pointers. Because we have fewer cases to deal with the code is now simpler. For now I use the simple hash that the dcache uses as that is easy to use and seems simple enough. In addition to makeing the code simpler using a hash for the file position in readdir brings sysfs in line with other filesystems that have non-trivial directory structures. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2012-01-03sysfs: propagate umode_tAl Viro1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-08-22sysfs: use rb-tree for inode number lookupMikulas Patocka1-3/+2
sysfs: use rb-tree for inode number lookup This patch makes sysfs use red-black tree for inode number lookup. Together with a previous patch to use red-black tree for name lookup, this patch makes all sysfs lookups to have O(log n) complexity. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-08-22sysfs: remove s_sibling hacksMikulas Patocka1-0/+5
sysfs: remove s_sibling hacks s_sibling was used for three different purposes: 1) as a linked list of entries in the directory 2) as a linked list of entries to be deleted 3) as a pointer to "struct completion" This patch removes the hack and introduces new union u which holds pointers for cases 2) and 3). This change is needed for the following patch that removes s_sibling at all and replaces it with a rb tree. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-08-22sysfs: use rb-tree for name lookupsMikulas Patocka1-0/+5
sysfs: use rb-tree for name lookups Use red-black tree for name lookups. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-08-22sysfs: count subdirectoriesMikulas Patocka1-0/+2
sysfs: count subdirectories This patch introduces a subdirectory counter for each sysfs directory. Without the patch, sysfs_refresh_inode would walk all entries of the directory to calculate the number of subdirectories. This patch improves time of "ls -la /sys/block" when there are 10000 block devices from 9 seconds to 0.19 seconds. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-07-20->permission() sanitizing: don't pass flags to ->permission()Al Viro1-1/+1
not used by the instances anymore. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-06-12Delay struct net freeing while there's a sysfs instance refering to itAl Viro1-1/+1
* new refcount in struct net, controlling actual freeing of the memory * new method in kobj_ns_type_operations (->drop_ns()) * ->current_ns() semantics change - it's supposed to be followed by corresponding ->drop_ns(). For struct net in case of CONFIG_NET_NS it bumps the new refcount; net_drop_ns() decrements it and calls net_free() if the last reference has been dropped. Method renamed to ->grab_current_ns(). * old net_free() callers call net_drop_ns() instead. * sysfs_exit_ns() is gone, along with a large part of callchain leading to it; now that the references stored in ->ns[...] stay valid we do not need to hunt them down and replace them with NULL. That fixes problems in sysfs_lookup() and sysfs_readdir(), along with getting rid of sb->s_instances abuse. Note that struct net *shutdown* logics has not changed - net_cleanup() is called exactly when it used to be called. The only thing postponed by having a sysfs instance refering to that struct net is actual freeing of memory occupied by struct net. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-10headers: kobject.h reduxAlexey Dobriyan1-0/+1
Remove kobject.h from files which don't need it, notably, sched.h and fs.h. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-07fs: provide rcu-walk aware permission i_opsNick Piggin1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2010-08-09switch sysfs to ->evict_inode()Al Viro1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21sysfs: Comment sysfs directory tagging logicSerge E. Hallyn1-1/+12
Add some in-line comments to explain the new infrastructure, which was introduced to support sysfs directory tagging with namespaces. I think an overall description someplace might be good too, but it didn't really seem to fit into Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt, which appears more geared toward users, rather than maintainers, of sysfs. (Tejun, please let me know if I can make anything clearer or failed altogether to comment something that should be commented.) Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21sysfs: Implement sysfs tagged directory support.Eric W. Biederman1-4/+16
The problem. When implementing a network namespace I need to be able to have multiple network devices with the same name. Currently this is a problem for /sys/class/net/*, /sys/devices/virtual/net/*, and potentially a few other directories of the form /sys/ ... /net/*. What this patch does is to add an additional tag field to the sysfs dirent structure. For directories that should show different contents depending on the context such as /sys/class/net/, and /sys/devices/virtual/net/ this tag field is used to specify the context in which those directories should be visible. Effectively this is the same as creating multiple distinct directories with the same name but internally to sysfs the result is nicer. I am calling the concept of a single directory that looks like multiple directories all at the same path in the filesystem tagged directories. For the networking namespace the set of directories whose contents I need to filter with tags can depend on the presence or absence of hotplug hardware or which modules are currently loaded. Which means I need a simple race free way to setup those directories as tagged. To achieve a reace free design all tagged directories are created and managed by sysfs itself. Users of this interface: - define a type in the sysfs_tag_type enumeration. - call sysfs_register_ns_types with the type and it's operations - sysfs_exit_ns when an individual tag is no longer valid - Implement mount_ns() which returns the ns of the calling process so we can attach it to a sysfs superblock. - Implement ktype.namespace() which returns the ns of a syfs kobject. Everything else is left up to sysfs and the driver layer. For the network namespace mount_ns and namespace() are essentially one line functions, and look to remain that. Tags are currently represented a const void * pointers as that is both generic, prevides enough information for equality comparisons, and is trivial to create for current users, as it is just the existing namespace pointer. The work needed in sysfs is more extensive. At each directory or symlink creating I need to check if the directory it is being created in is a tagged directory and if so generate the appropriate tag to place on the sysfs_dirent. Likewise at each symlink or directory removal I need to check if the sysfs directory it is being removed from is a tagged directory and if so figure out which tag goes along with the name I am deleting. Currently only directories which hold kobjects, and symlinks are supported. There is not enough information in the current file attribute interfaces to give us anything to discriminate on which makes it useless, and there are no potential users which makes it an uninteresting problem to solve. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21sysfs: Basic support for multiple super blocksEric W. Biederman1-0/+3
Add all of the necessary bioler plate to support multiple superblocks in sysfs. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07sysfs: Kill unused sysfs_sb variable.Eric W. Biederman1-1/+0
Now that there are no more users we can remove the sysfs_sb variable. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07sysfs: Pass super_block to sysfs_get_inodeEric W. Biederman1-1/+1
Currently sysfs_get_inode magically returns an inode on sysfs_sb. Make the super_block parameter explicit and the code becomes clearer. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07sysfs: Pack sysfs_dirent more tightly.Eric W. Biederman1-1/+1
Placing the 16bit s_mode between a pointer and a long doesn't pack well especailly on 64bit where we wast 48 bits. So move s_mode and declare it as a unsigned short. This is the sysfs backing store after all we don't need fields extra large just in case someday we want userspace to be able to use a larger value. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07sysfs: Use one lockdep class per sysfs attribute.Eric W. Biederman1-2/+5
Acknowledge that the logical sysfs rwsem has one instance per sysfs attribute with different locking depencencies for different attributes. There is a sysfs idiom where writing to one sysfs file causes the addition or removal of other sysfs files. Lumping all of the sysfs attributes together in one lock class causes lockdep to generate lots of false positives. This introduces the requirement that non-static sysfs attributes need to be initialized with sysfs_attr_init or sysfs_bin_attr_init. Strictly speaking this requirement only exists when lockdep is enabled, and when lockdep is enabled we get a bit fat warning if this requirement is not met. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07sysfs: Only take active references on attributes.Eric W. Biederman1-0/+1
If we exclude directories and symlinks from the set of sysfs dirents where we need active references we are left with sysfs attributes (binary or not). - Tweak sysfs_deactivate to only do something on attributes - Move lockdep initialization into sysfs_file_add_mode to limit it to just attributes. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07sysfs: Remove sysfs_get/put_active_twoEric W. Biederman1-2/+2
It turns out that holding an active reference on a directory is pointless. The purpose of the active references are to allows us to block when removing sysfs entries that have custom methods so we don't remove modules while running modular code and to keep those custom methods from accessing data structures after the files have been removed. Further sysfs_remove_dir remove all elements in the directory before removing the directory itself, so there is no chance we will remove a directory with active children. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-01-04sysfs: Add lockdep annotations for the sysfs active referenceEric W. Biederman1-0/+15
Holding locks over device_del -> kobject_del -> sysfs_deactivate can cause deadlocks if those same locks are grabbed in sysfs show or store methods. The I model s_active count + completion as a sleeping read/write lock. I describe to lockdep sysfs_get_active as a read_trylock, sysfs_put_active as a read_unlock, and sysfs_deactivate as a write_lock and write_unlock pair. This seems to capture the essence for purposes of finding deadlocks, and in my testing gives finds real issues and ignores non-issues. This brings us back to holding locks over kobject_del is a problem that ideally we should find a way of addressing, but at least lockdep can tell us about the problems instead of requiring developers to debug rare strange system deadlocks, that happen when sysfs files are removed while being written to. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-11sysfs: Factor out sysfs_rename from sysfs_rename_dir and sysfs_move_dirEric W. Biederman1-0/+3
These two functions do 90% of the same work and it doesn't significantly obfuscate the function to allow both the parent dir and the name to change at the same time. So merge them together to simplify maintenance, and increase testing. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-11sysfs: Propagate renames to the vfs on demandEric W. Biederman1-1/+0
By teaching sysfs_revalidate to hide a dentry for a sysfs_dirent if the sysfs_dirent has been renamed, and by teaching sysfs_lookup to return the original dentry if the sysfs dirent has been renamed. I can show the results of renames correctly without having to update the dcache during the directory rename. This massively simplifies the rename logic allowing a lot of weird sysfs special cases to be removed along with a lot of now unnecesary helper code. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-11sysfs: Gut sysfs_addrm_start and sysfs_addrm_finishEric W. Biederman1-2/+0
With lazy inode updates and dentry operations bringing everything into sync on demand there is no longer any need to immediately update the vfs or grab i_mutex to protect those updates as we make changes to sysfs. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-11sysfs: Implement sysfs_getattr & sysfs_permissionEric W. Biederman1-0/+2
With the implementation of sysfs_getattr and sysfs_permission sysfs becomes able to lazily propogate inode attribute changes from the sysfs_dirents to the vfs inodes. This paves the way for deleting significant chunks of now unnecessary code. While doing this we did not reference sysfs_setattr from sysfs_symlink_inode_operations so I added along with sysfs_getattr and sysfs_permission. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-11sysfs: Fix locking and factor out sysfs_sd_setattrEric W. Biederman1-0/+1
Cleanly separate the work that is specific to setting the attributes of a sysfs_dirent from what is needed to update the attributes of a vfs inode. Additionally grab the sysfs_mutex to keep any nasties from surprising us when updating the sysfs_dirent. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>