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* debugfs: function to know if debugfs is initializedFrederic Weisbecker2009-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: add new debugfs API With ftrace, some tracers are registered in early initcalls and attempt to create files on the debugfs filesystem. Depending on when they are activated, they can try to create their file at any time. Some checks can be done on the tracing area but providing a helper to know if debugfs is registered make it really more easy. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1237759847-21025-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* debugfs: add helpers for exporting a size_t simple valueInaky Perez-Gonzalez2009-01-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the same spirit as debugfs_create_*(), introduce helpers for exporting size_t values over debugfs. The only trick done is that the format verifier is kept at %llu instead of %zu; otherwise type warnings would pop up: format ‘%zu’ expects type ‘size_t’, but argument 2 has type ‘long long unsigned int’ There is no real way to fix this one--however, we can consider %llu and %zu to be compatible if we consider that we are using the same for validating in debugfs_create_{x,u}{8,16,32}(). Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* zero i_uid/i_gid on inode allocationAl Viro2009-01-05
| | | | | | | | | ... and don't bother in callers. Don't bother with zeroing i_blocks, while we are at it - it's already been zeroed. i_mode is not worth the effort; it has no common default value. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* integrity: special fs magicMimi Zohar2008-10-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Discussion on the mailing list questioned the use of these magic values in userspace, concluding these values are already exported to userspace via statfs and their correct/incorrect usage is left up to the userspace application. - Move special fs magic number definitions to magic.h - Add magic.h include Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
* debugfs: Implement debugfs_remove_recursive()Haavard Skinnemoen2008-07-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | debugfs_remove_recursive() will remove a dentry and all its children. Drivers can use this to zap their whole debugfs tree so that they don't need to keep track of every single debugfs dentry they created. It may fail to remove the whole tree in certain cases: sh-3.2# rmmod atmel-mci < /sys/kernel/debug/mmc0/ios/clock mmc0: card b368 removed atmel_mci atmel_mci.0: Lost dma0chan1, falling back to PIO sh-3.2# ls /sys/kernel/debug/mmc0/ ios But I'm not sure if that case can be handled in any sane manner. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* DEBUGFS: Correct location of debugfs API documentation.Robert P. J. Day2008-04-30
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* debugfs: fix sparse warningsHarvey Harrison2008-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | extern does not belong in C files, move declaration to linux/debugfs.h fs/debugfs/file.c:42:30: warning: symbol 'debugfs_file_operations' was not declared. Should it be static? fs/debugfs/file.c:54:31: warning: symbol 'debugfs_link_operations' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* libfs: allow error return from simple attributesChristoph Hellwig2008-02-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sometimes simple attributes might need to return an error, e.g. for acquiring a mutex interruptibly. In fact we have that situation in spufs already which is the original user of the simple attributes. This patch merged the temporarily forked attributes in spufs back into the main ones and allows to return errors. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: <stefano.brivio@polimi.it> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Kobject: convert fs/* from kobject_unregister() to kobject_put()Greg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | There is no need for kobject_unregister() anymore, thanks to Kay's kobject cleanup changes, so replace all instances of it with kobject_put(). Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* kobject: convert kernel_kset to be a kobjectGreg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | kernel_kset does not need to be a kset, but a much simpler kobject now that we have kobj_attributes. We also rename kernel_kset to kernel_kobj to catch all users of this symbol with a build error instead of an easy-to-ignore build warning. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* kset: convert kernel_subsys to use kset_createGreg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically. We also rename kernel_subsys to kernel_kset to catch all users of this symbol with a build error instead of an easy-to-ignore build warning. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* kobject: convert debugfs to use kobject_createGreg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-24
| | | | | | | | | We don't need a kset here, a simple kobject will do just fine, so dynamically create the kobject and use it. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* kobject: remove struct kobj_type from struct ksetGreg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We don't need a "default" ktype for a kset. We should set this explicitly every time for each kset. This change is needed so that we can make ksets dynamic, and cleans up one of the odd, undocumented assumption that the kset/kobject/ktype model has. This patch is based on a lot of help from Kay Sievers. Nasty bug in the block code was found by Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] pass dentry to audit_inode()/audit_inode_child()Al Viro2007-10-21
| | | | | | makes caller simpler *and* allows to scan ancestors Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* docbook: fix filesystems contentRandy Dunlap2007-10-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix filesystems docbook warnings. Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//fs/debugfs/file.c:241): No description found for parameter 'name' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//fs/debugfs/file.c:241): No description found for parameter 'mode' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//fs/debugfs/file.c:241): No description found for parameter 'parent' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//fs/debugfs/file.c:241): No description found for parameter 'value' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//include/linux/jbd.h:404): No description found for parameter 'h_lockdep_map' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* debugfs: helper for decimal challengedRobin Getz2007-10-12
| | | | | | | | Allows debugfs helper functions to have a hex output, rather than just decimal Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* debugfs: remove rmdir() non-empty complaintJens Axboe2007-07-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hi, This patch kills the pointless debugfs rmdir() printk() when called on a non-empty directory. blktrace will sometimes have to call it a few times when forcefully ending a trace, which polutes the log with pointless warnings. Rationale: - It's more code to work-around this "problem" in the debugfs users, and you would have to add code to check for empty directories to do so (or assume that debugfs is using simple_ helpers, but that would be a layering violation). - Other rmdir() implementations don't complain about something this silly. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* debugfs: add rename for debugfs filesJan Kara2007-07-11
| | | | | | | | Implement debugfs_rename() to allow renaming files/directories in debugfs. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer neededGreg Kroah-Hartman2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | We need to work on cleaning up the relationship between kobjects, ksets and ktypes. The removal of 'struct subsystem' is the first step of this, especially as it is not really needed at all. Thanks to Kay for fixing the bugs in this patch. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* debugfs: Add debugfs_create_u64()Michael Ellerman2007-04-27
| | | | | | | | | | | I went to use this the other day, only to find it didn't exist. It's a straight copy of the debugfs u32 code, then s/u32/u64/. A quick test shows it seems to be working. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* debugfs: Remove misleading comments.Cornelia Huck2007-02-16
| | | | | | | | | Just mention which error will be returned if debugfs is disabled. Callers should be able to figure out themselves what they need to check. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* debugfs: implement symbolic linksPeter Oberparleiter2007-02-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | debugfs: implement symbolic links Implement a new function debugfs_create_symlink() which can be used to create symbolic links in debugfs. This function can be useful for people moving functionality from /proc to debugfs (e.g. the gcov-kernel patch). Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 6Arjan van de Ven2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to these shared resources. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* DebugFS : file/directory removal fixMathieu Desnoyers2006-12-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix file and directory removal in debugfs. Add inotify support for file removal. The following scenario : create dir a create dir a/b cd a/b (some process goes in cwd a/b) rmdir a/b rmdir a fails due to the fact that "a" appears to be non empty. It is because the "b" dentry is not deleted from "a" and still in use. The same problem happens if "b" is a file. d_delete is nice enough to know when it needs to unhash and free the dentry if nothing else is using it or, if someone is using it, to remove it from the hash queues and wait for it to be deleted when it has no users. The nice side-effect of this fix is that it calls the file removal notification. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* DebugFS : more file/directory creation error handlingMathieu Desnoyers2006-12-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Correct dentry count to handle creation errors. This patch puts a dput at the file creation instead of the file removal : lookup_one_len already returns a dentry with reference count of 1. Then, the dget() in simple_mknod increments it when the dentry is associated with a file. In a scenario where simple_create or simple_mkdir returns an error, this would lead to an unwanted increment of the reference counter, therefore making file removal impossible. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* DebugFS : file/directory creation error handlingMathieu Desnoyers2006-12-13
| | | | | | | | | | | Fix error handling of file and directory creation in DebugFS. The error path should release the file system because no _remove will be called for this erroneous creation. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* DebugFS : coding style fixesMathieu Desnoyers2006-12-13
| | | | | | | | | Minor coding style fixes along the way : 80 cols and a white space. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* DebugFS : inotify create/mkdir supportMathieu Desnoyers2006-12-13
| | | | | | | | | Add inotify create and mkdir events to DebugFS. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] debugfs: add header fileRandy Dunlap2006-11-25
| | | | | | | | | debugfs needs include/linux/kobject.h for <kernel_subsys>. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* debugfs: check return value correctlyAkinobu Mita2006-11-16
| | | | | | | | The return value is stored in "*dentry", not in "dentry". Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* debugfs: spelling fixKomal Shah2006-10-03
| | | | | | | Change debufs_create_file() to debugfs_create_file(). Signed-off-by: Komal Shah <komal_shah802003@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* [PATCH] r/o bind mount prepwork: inc_nlink() helperDave Hansen2006-10-01
| | | | | | | | | | | This is mostly included for parity with dec_nlink(), where we will have some more hooks. This one should stay pretty darn straightforward for now. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] inode-diet: Eliminate i_blksize from the inode structureTheodore Ts'o2006-09-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This eliminates the i_blksize field from struct inode. Filesystems that want to provide a per-inode st_blksize can do so by providing their own getattr routine instead of using the generic_fillattr() function. Note that some filesystems were providing pretty much random (and incorrect) values for i_blksize. [bunk@stusta.de: cleanup] [akpm@osdl.org: generic_fillattr() fix] Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] inode_diet: Replace inode.u.generic_ip with inode.i_privateTheodore Ts'o2006-09-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The following patches reduce the size of the VFS inode structure by 28 bytes on a UP x86. (It would be more on an x86_64 system). This is a 10% reduction in the inode size on a UP kernel that is configured in a production mode (i.e., with no spinlock or other debugging functions enabled; if you want to save memory taken up by in-core inodes, the first thing you should do is disable the debugging options; they are responsible for a huge amount of bloat in the VFS inode structure). This patch: The filesystem or device-specific pointer in the inode is inside a union, which is pretty pointless given that all 30+ users of this field have been using the void pointer. Get rid of the union and rename it to i_private, with a comment to explain who is allowed to use the void pointer. This is just a cleanup, but it allows us to reuse the union 'u' for something something where the union will actually be used. [judith@osdl.org: powerpc build fix] Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzelter <judith@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Debugfs: kernel-doc fixes for debugfsRandy Dunlap2006-09-26
| | | | | | | | Fix kernel-doc and typos/spellos in fs/debugfs/. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel2006-06-30
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* Merge branch 'master' of /home/trondmy/kernel/linux-2.6/Trond Myklebust2006-06-24
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: fs/nfs/inode.c fs/super.c Fix conflicts between patch 'NFS: Split fs/nfs/inode.c' and patch 'VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount'
| * [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mountDavid Howells2006-06-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint. The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry pointers. For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt() which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour). The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the superblock pointer. This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing. In such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root and mnt_sb would be set directly. The patch also makes the following changes: (*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change very little. (*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb(). (*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon(). This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that aren't actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root, and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in dentries being left unculled. However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for '/' may well be inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries with child trees. [*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree. (*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation. [akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff] Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | VFS: Unexport do_kern_mount() and clean up simple_pin_fs()Trond Myklebust2006-06-09
|/ | | | | | | Replace all module uses with the new vfs_kern_mount() interface, and fix up simple_pin_fs(). Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* [PATCH] debugfs inode leakJens Axboe2006-06-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | Looking at the reiser4 crash, I found a leak in debugfs. In debugfs_mknod(), we create the inode before checking if the dentry already has one attached. We don't free it if that is the case. These bugs happen quite often, I'm starting to think we should disallow such coding in CodingStyle. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ constArjan van de Ven2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a conversion to make the various file_operations structs in fs/ const. Basically a regexp job, with a few manual fixups The goal is both to increase correctness (harder to accidentally write to shared datastructures) and reducing the false sharing of cachelines with things that get dirty in .data (while .rodata is nicely read only and thus cache clean) Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mark f_ops const in the inodeArjan van de Ven2006-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | Mark the f_ops members of inodes as const, as well as fix the ripple-through this causes by places that copy this f_ops and then "do stuff" with it. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] debugfs: Add debugfs_create_blob() helper for exporting binary dataMichael Ellerman2006-03-20
| | | | | | | | | I wanted to export a binary blob via debugfs, and although it was pretty easy it seems like it'd be easier if there was a helper for it. It's a pity we need the wrapper struct but I can't see a cleaner way to do it. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] debugfs: trivial comment fixVincent Hanquez2006-02-06
| | | | | | | Fix trivial type mixup in the debugfs function comments. Signed-off-by: Vincent Hanquez <vincent@snarc.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_semJes Sorensen2006-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your luck with it might be different. Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> (finished the conversion) Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* [PATCH] remove duplicate get_dentry functions in various placesChristoph Hellwig2005-06-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Various filesystem drivers have grown a get_dentry() function that's a duplicate of lookup_one_len, except that it doesn't take a maximum length argument and doesn't check for \0 or / in the passed in filename. Switch all these places to use lookup_one_len. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] libfs: add simple attribute filesArnd Bergmann2005-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-16
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
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