linux/fs/sysfs/dir.c, branch v3.0.36

fs: rcu-walk aware d_revalidate method

2011-01-07T06:50:29Z

Require filesystems be aware of .d_revalidate being called in rcu-walk mode (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU). For now do a simple push down, returning -ECHILD from all implementations. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin

fs: dcache reduce branches in lookup path

2011-01-07T06:50:28Z

Reduce some branches and memory accesses in dcache lookup by adding dentry flags to indicate common d_ops are set, rather than having to check them. This saves a pointer memory access (dentry->d_op) in common path lookup situations, and saves another pointer load and branch in cases where we have d_op but not the particular operation. Patched with: git grep -E '[.>]([[:space:]])*d_op([[:space:]])*=' | xargs sed -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)->d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\1, \2);/' -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)\.d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\&\1, \2);/' -i Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin

fs: change d_delete semantics

2011-01-07T06:50:18Z

Change d_delete from a dentry deletion notification to a dentry caching advise, more like ->drop_inode. Require it to be constant and idempotent, and not take d_lock. This is how all existing filesystems use the callback anyway. This makes fine grained dentry locking of dput and dentry lru scanning much simpler. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin

sysfs: Comment sysfs directory tagging logic

2010-05-21T16:37:31Z

Add some in-line comments to explain the new infrastructure, which was introduced to support sysfs directory tagging with namespaces. I think an overall description someplace might be good too, but it didn't really seem to fit into Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt, which appears more geared toward users, rather than maintainers, of sysfs. (Tejun, please let me know if I can make anything clearer or failed altogether to comment something that should be commented.) Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs: Add support for tagged directories with untagged members.

2010-05-21T16:37:31Z

I had hopped to avoid this but the bonding driver adds a file to /sys/class/net/ and the easiest way to handle that file is to make it untagged and to register it only once. So relax the rules on tagged directories, and make bonding work. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs: Implement sysfs tagged directory support.

2010-05-21T16:37:31Z

The problem. When implementing a network namespace I need to be able to have multiple network devices with the same name. Currently this is a problem for /sys/class/net/*, /sys/devices/virtual/net/*, and potentially a few other directories of the form /sys/ ... /net/*. What this patch does is to add an additional tag field to the sysfs dirent structure. For directories that should show different contents depending on the context such as /sys/class/net/, and /sys/devices/virtual/net/ this tag field is used to specify the context in which those directories should be visible. Effectively this is the same as creating multiple distinct directories with the same name but internally to sysfs the result is nicer. I am calling the concept of a single directory that looks like multiple directories all at the same path in the filesystem tagged directories. For the networking namespace the set of directories whose contents I need to filter with tags can depend on the presence or absence of hotplug hardware or which modules are currently loaded. Which means I need a simple race free way to setup those directories as tagged. To achieve a reace free design all tagged directories are created and managed by sysfs itself. Users of this interface: - define a type in the sysfs_tag_type enumeration. - call sysfs_register_ns_types with the type and it's operations - sysfs_exit_ns when an individual tag is no longer valid - Implement mount_ns() which returns the ns of the calling process so we can attach it to a sysfs superblock. - Implement ktype.namespace() which returns the ns of a syfs kobject. Everything else is left up to sysfs and the driver layer. For the network namespace mount_ns and namespace() are essentially one line functions, and look to remain that. Tags are currently represented a const void * pointers as that is both generic, prevides enough information for equality comparisons, and is trivial to create for current users, as it is just the existing namespace pointer. The work needed in sysfs is more extensive. At each directory or symlink creating I need to check if the directory it is being created in is a tagged directory and if so generate the appropriate tag to place on the sysfs_dirent. Likewise at each symlink or directory removal I need to check if the sysfs directory it is being removed from is a tagged directory and if so figure out which tag goes along with the name I am deleting. Currently only directories which hold kobjects, and symlinks are supported. There is not enough information in the current file attribute interfaces to give us anything to discriminate on which makes it useless, and there are no potential users which makes it an uninteresting problem to solve. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs: Pass super_block to sysfs_get_inode

2010-03-08T01:04:52Z

Currently sysfs_get_inode magically returns an inode on sysfs_sb. Make the super_block parameter explicit and the code becomes clearer. Acked-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs: Only take active references on attributes.

2010-03-08T01:04:51Z

If we exclude directories and symlinks from the set of sysfs dirents where we need active references we are left with sysfs attributes (binary or not). - Tweak sysfs_deactivate to only do something on attributes - Move lockdep initialization into sysfs_file_add_mode to limit it to just attributes. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Acked-by: WANG Cong Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs: Remove sysfs_get/put_active_two

2010-03-08T01:04:51Z

It turns out that holding an active reference on a directory is pointless. The purpose of the active references are to allows us to block when removing sysfs entries that have custom methods so we don't remove modules while running modular code and to keep those custom methods from accessing data structures after the files have been removed. Further sysfs_remove_dir remove all elements in the directory before removing the directory itself, so there is no chance we will remove a directory with active children. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs: Cache the last sysfs_dirent to improve readdir scalability v2

2010-03-08T01:04:48Z

When sysfs_readdir stops short we now cache the next sysfs_dirent to return to user space in filp->private_data. There is no impact on the rest of sysfs by doing this and in the common case it allows us to pick up exactly where we left off with no seeking. Additionally I drop and regrab the sysfs_mutex around filldir to avoid a page fault abritrarily increasing the hold time on the sysfs_mutex. v2: Returned to using INT_MAX as the EOF condition. seekdir is ambiguous unless all directory entries have a unique f_pos value. Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14949 Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman