[PATCH] libfs: add simple attribute files

Based on the discussion about spufs attributes, this is my suggestion
for a more generic attribute file support that can be used by both
debugfs and spufs.

Simple attribute files behave similarly to sequential files from
a kernel programmers perspective in that a standard set of file
operations is provided and only an open operation needs to
be written that registers file specific get() and set() functions.

These operations are defined as

void foo_set(void *data, u64 val); and
u64 foo_get(void *data);

where data is the inode->u.generic_ip pointer of the file and the
operations just need to make send of that pointer. The infrastructure
makes sure this works correctly with concurrent access and partial
read calls.

A macro named DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE is provided to further simplify
using the attributes.

This patch already contains the changes for debugfs to use attributes
for its internal file operations.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 100 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index f90b29595927..5025563e7379 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -519,6 +519,102 @@ int simple_transaction_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
         return 0;
 }
 
+/* Simple attribute files */
+
+struct simple_attr {
+        u64 (*get)(void *);
+        void (*set)(void *, u64);
+        char get_buf[24];       /* enough to store a u64 and "\n\0" */
+        char set_buf[24];
+        void *data;
+        const char *fmt;        /* format for read operation */
+        struct semaphore sem;   /* protects access to these buffers */
+};
+
+/* simple_attr_open is called by an actual attribute open file operation
+ * to set the attribute specific access operations. */
+int simple_attr_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
+                     u64 (*get)(void *), void (*set)(void *, u64),
+                     const char *fmt)
+{
+        struct simple_attr *attr;
+
+        attr = kmalloc(sizeof(*attr), GFP_KERNEL);
+        if (!attr)
+                return -ENOMEM;
+
+        attr->get = get;
+        attr->set = set;
+        attr->data = inode->u.generic_ip;
+        attr->fmt = fmt;
+        init_MUTEX(&attr->sem);
+
+        file->private_data = attr;
+
+        return nonseekable_open(inode, file);
+}
+
+int simple_attr_close(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
+{
+        kfree(file->private_data);
+        return 0;
+}
+
+/* read from the buffer that is filled with the get function */
+ssize_t simple_attr_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
+                         size_t len, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+        struct simple_attr *attr;
+        size_t size;
+        ssize_t ret;
+
+        attr = file->private_data;
+
+        if (!attr->get)
+                return -EACCES;
+
+        down(&attr->sem);
+        if (*ppos) /* continued read */
+                size = strlen(attr->get_buf);
+        else      /* first read */
+                size = scnprintf(attr->get_buf, sizeof(attr->get_buf),
+                                 attr->fmt,
+                                 (unsigned long long)attr->get(attr->data));
+
+        ret = simple_read_from_buffer(buf, len, ppos, attr->get_buf, size);
+        up(&attr->sem);
+        return ret;
+}
+
+/* interpret the buffer as a number to call the set function with */
+ssize_t simple_attr_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
+                          size_t len, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+        struct simple_attr *attr;
+        u64 val;
+        size_t size;
+        ssize_t ret;
+
+        attr = file->private_data;
+
+        if (!attr->set)
+                return -EACCES;
+
+        down(&attr->sem);
+        ret = -EFAULT;
+        size = min(sizeof(attr->set_buf) - 1, len);
+        if (copy_from_user(attr->set_buf, buf, size))
+                goto out;
+
+        ret = len; /* claim we got the whole input */
+        attr->set_buf[size] = '\0';
+        val = simple_strtol(attr->set_buf, NULL, 0);
+        attr->set(attr->data, val);
+out:
+        up(&attr->sem);
+        return ret;
+}
+
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dcache_dir_close);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dcache_dir_lseek);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dcache_dir_open);
@@ -547,3 +643,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_read_from_buffer);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_transaction_get);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_transaction_read);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_transaction_release);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(simple_attr_open);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(simple_attr_close);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(simple_attr_read);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(simple_attr_write);