SUNRPC: dynamically load RPC transport modules on-demand

Provide an api to attempt to load any necessary kernel RPC
client transport module automatically. By convention, the
desired module name is "xprt"+"transport name". For example,
when NFS mounting with "-o proto=rdma", attempt to load the
"xprtrdma" module.

Signed-off-by: Tom Talpey <tmtalpey@gmail.com>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

2 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
index 11fc71d50c1e..2b0d960603b9 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
@@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ static inline __be32 *xprt_skip_transport_header(struct rpc_xprt *xprt, __be32 *
  */
 int                     xprt_register_transport(struct xprt_class *type);
 int                     xprt_unregister_transport(struct xprt_class *type);
+int                     xprt_load_transport(const char *);
 void                    xprt_set_retrans_timeout_def(struct rpc_task *task);
 void                    xprt_set_retrans_timeout_rtt(struct rpc_task *task);
 void                    xprt_wake_pending_tasks(struct rpc_xprt *xprt, int status);
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
index 62098d101a1f..d1afec640394 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
@@ -152,6 +152,37 @@ out:
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xprt_unregister_transport);
 
 /**
+ * xprt_load_transport - load a transport implementation
+ * @transport_name: transport to load
+ *
+ * Returns:
+ * 0:           transport successfully loaded
+ * -ENOENT:     transport module not available
+ */
+int xprt_load_transport(const char *transport_name)
+{
+        struct xprt_class *t;
+        char module_name[sizeof t->name + 5];
+        int result;
+
+        result = 0;
+        spin_lock(&xprt_list_lock);
+        list_for_each_entry(t, &xprt_list, list) {
+                if (strcmp(t->name, transport_name) == 0) {
+                        spin_unlock(&xprt_list_lock);
+                        goto out;
+                }
+        }
+        spin_unlock(&xprt_list_lock);
+        strcpy(module_name, "xprt");
+        strncat(module_name, transport_name, sizeof t->name);
+        result = request_module(module_name);
+out:
+        return result;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xprt_load_transport);
+
+/**
  * xprt_reserve_xprt - serialize write access to transports
  * @task: task that is requesting access to the transport
  *