From aecdcedaab49ca40620dc7dd70f67ee7269a66c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:45:15 +0900 Subject: sysfs: implement kobj_sysfs_assoc_lock kobj->dentry can go away anytime unless the user controls when the associated sysfs node is deleted. This patch implements kobj_sysfs_assoc_lock which protects kobj->dentry. This will be used to maintain kobj based API when converting sysfs to use sysfs_dirent tree instead of dentry/kobject. Note that this lock belongs to kobject/driver-model not sysfs. Once sysfs is converted to not use kobject in its interface, this can be removed from sysfs. This is in preparation of object reference simplification. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/sysfs/sysfs.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'fs/sysfs/sysfs.h') diff --git a/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h b/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h index 39ab0481379c..718e2e123fae 100644 --- a/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h +++ b/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ extern void sysfs_drop_dentry(struct sysfs_dirent *sd, struct dentry *parent); extern int sysfs_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *iattr); extern spinlock_t sysfs_lock; +extern spinlock_t kobj_sysfs_assoc_lock; extern struct rw_semaphore sysfs_rename_sem; extern struct super_block * sysfs_sb; extern const struct file_operations sysfs_dir_operations; -- cgit v1.2.3