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authorSatyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>2007-07-04 07:07:16 -0400
committerMark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>2007-07-10 20:02:31 -0400
commit3fe6c5ce1176cf661dbe71fc43b627c1a742a89a (patch)
treebe94563e2ba49f7116e866e57253b5ed82fb85ee /include/linux/configfs.h
parent9b1d9aa4e9c5cafe73b9df21d758b50b5d75264d (diff)
[PATCH] configfs+dlm: Rename config_group_find_obj and state semantics clearly
Configfs being based upon sysfs code, config_group_find_obj() is probably so named because of the similar kset_find_obj() in sysfs. However, "kobject"s in sysfs become "config_item"s in configfs, so let's call it config_group_find_item() instead, for sake of uniformity, and make corresponding change in the users of this function. BTW a crucial difference between kset_find_obj and config_group_find_item is in locking expectations. kset_find_obj does its locking by itself, but config_group_find_item expects the *caller* to do the locking. The reason for this: kset's have their own locks, config_group's don't but instead rely on the subsystem mutex. And, subsystem needn't necessarily be around when config_group_find_item() is called. So let's state these locking semantics explicitly, and rectify the comment, otherwise bugs could continue to occur in future, as they did in the past (refer commit d82b8191e238 in gfs2-2.6-fixes.git). [ I also took the opportunity to fix some bad whitespace and double-empty lines. --Joel ] [ Conflict in fs/dlm/config.c with commit 3168b0780d06ace875696f8a648d04d6089654e5 manually resolved. --Mark ] Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in> Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/configfs.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/configfs.h7
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/configfs.h b/include/linux/configfs.h
index def7c83d43a2..bbb1b6cafa8b 100644
--- a/include/linux/configfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/configfs.h
@@ -86,12 +86,10 @@ struct config_item_type {
86 struct configfs_attribute **ct_attrs; 86 struct configfs_attribute **ct_attrs;
87}; 87};
88 88
89
90/** 89/**
91 * group - a group of config_items of a specific type, belonging 90 * group - a group of config_items of a specific type, belonging
92 * to a specific subsystem. 91 * to a specific subsystem.
93 */ 92 */
94
95struct config_group { 93struct config_group {
96 struct config_item cg_item; 94 struct config_item cg_item;
97 struct list_head cg_children; 95 struct list_head cg_children;
@@ -99,13 +97,11 @@ struct config_group {
99 struct config_group **default_groups; 97 struct config_group **default_groups;
100}; 98};
101 99
102
103extern void config_group_init(struct config_group *group); 100extern void config_group_init(struct config_group *group);
104extern void config_group_init_type_name(struct config_group *group, 101extern void config_group_init_type_name(struct config_group *group,
105 const char *name, 102 const char *name,
106 struct config_item_type *type); 103 struct config_item_type *type);
107 104
108
109static inline struct config_group *to_config_group(struct config_item *item) 105static inline struct config_group *to_config_group(struct config_item *item)
110{ 106{
111 return item ? container_of(item,struct config_group,cg_item) : NULL; 107 return item ? container_of(item,struct config_group,cg_item) : NULL;
@@ -121,7 +117,8 @@ static inline void config_group_put(struct config_group *group)
121 config_item_put(&group->cg_item); 117 config_item_put(&group->cg_item);
122} 118}
123 119
124extern struct config_item *config_group_find_obj(struct config_group *, const char *); 120extern struct config_item *config_group_find_item(struct config_group *,
121 const char *);
125 122
126 123
127struct configfs_attribute { 124struct configfs_attribute {