linux/fs/sysfs, branch v3.0.7

Delay struct net freeing while there's a sysfs instance refering to it

2011-06-12T21:45:41Z

* new refcount in struct net, controlling actual freeing of the memory * new method in kobj_ns_type_operations (->drop_ns()) * ->current_ns() semantics change - it's supposed to be followed by corresponding ->drop_ns(). For struct net in case of CONFIG_NET_NS it bumps the new refcount; net_drop_ns() decrements it and calls net_free() if the last reference has been dropped. Method renamed to ->grab_current_ns(). * old net_free() callers call net_drop_ns() instead. * sysfs_exit_ns() is gone, along with a large part of callchain leading to it; now that the references stored in ->ns[...] stay valid we do not need to hunt them down and replace them with NULL. That fixes problems in sysfs_lookup() and sysfs_readdir(), along with getting rid of sb->s_instances abuse. Note that struct net *shutdown* logics has not changed - net_cleanup() is called exactly when it used to be called. The only thing postponed by having a sysfs instance refering to that struct net is actual freeing of memory occupied by struct net. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

sysfs: remove "last sysfs file:" line from the oops messages

2011-05-13T23:05:51Z

On some arches (x86, sh, arm, unicore, powerpc) the oops message would print out the last sysfs file accessed. This was very useful in finding a number of sysfs and driver core bugs in the 2.5 and early 2.6 development days, but it has been a number of years since this file has actually helped in debugging anything that couldn't also be trivially determined from the stack traceback. So it's time to delete the line. This is good as we need all the space we can get for oops messages at times on consoles. Acked-by: Phil Carmody Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

SYSFS: Fix erroneous comments for sysfs_update_group().

2011-05-10T21:22:00Z

Fix what is clearly a simple copy-and-paste error in commenting the sysfs_update_group() routine. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT

2011-01-21T01:02:05Z

The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than only small devices. This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes references to the option throughout the kernel. A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc). Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they are making should enable it. Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: David Woodhouse Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Cc: Greg KH Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Robin Holt Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6

2011-01-11T00:10:33Z

* 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: driver core: Document that device_rename() is only for networking sysfs: remove useless test from sysfs_merge_group driver-core: merge private parts of class and bus driver core: fix whitespace in class_attr_string

headers: kobject.h redux

2011-01-10T16:51:44Z

Remove kobject.h from files which don't need it, notably, sched.h and fs.h. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs: provide rcu-walk aware permission i_ops

2011-01-07T06:50:29Z

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin

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