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2019-04-25kobject: Add support for default attribute groups to kobj_typeKimberly Brown1-1/+2
kobj_type currently uses a list of individual attributes to store default attributes. Attribute groups are more flexible than a list of attributes because groups provide support for attribute visibility. So, add support for default attribute groups to kobj_type. In future patches, the existing uses of kobj_type’s attribute list will be converted to attribute groups. When that is complete, kobj_type’s attribute list, “default_attrs”, will be removed. Signed-off-by: Kimberly Brown <kimbrownkd@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-08-18Merge tag 'driver-core-4.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-coreLinus Torvalds1-0/+17
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH: "Here are all of the driver core and related patches for 4.19-rc1. Nothing huge here, just a number of small cleanups and the ability to now stop the deferred probing after init happens. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with only a merge issue reported" * tag 'driver-core-4.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (21 commits) base: core: Remove WARN_ON from link dependencies check drivers/base: stop new probing during shutdown drivers: core: Remove glue dirs from sysfs earlier driver core: remove unnecessary function extern declare sysfs.h: fix non-kernel-doc comment PM / Domains: Stop deferring probe at the end of initcall iommu: Remove IOMMU_OF_DECLARE iommu: Stop deferring probe at end of initcalls pinctrl: Support stopping deferred probe after initcalls dt-bindings: pinctrl: add a 'pinctrl-use-default' property driver core: allow stopping deferred probe after init driver core: add a debugfs entry to show deferred devices sysfs: Fix internal_create_group() for named group updates base: fix order of OF initialization linux/device.h: fix kernel-doc notation warning Documentation: update firmware loader fallback reference kobject: Replace strncpy with memcpy drivers: base: cacheinfo: use OF property_read_u32 instead of get_property,read_number kernfs: Replace strncpy with memcpy device: Add #define dev_fmt similar to #define pr_fmt ...
2018-07-20sysfs, kobject: allow creating kobject belonging to arbitrary usersDmitry Torokhov1-0/+4
Normally kobjects and their sysfs representation belong to global root, however it is not necessarily the case for objects in separate namespaces. For example, objects in separate network namespace logically belong to the container's root and not global root. This change lays groundwork for allowing network namespace objects ownership to be transferred to container's root user by defining get_ownership() callback in ktype structure and using it in sysfs code to retrieve desired uid/gid when creating sysfs objects for given kobject. Co-Developed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-07-16drivers: core: Remove glue dirs from sysfs earlierBenjamin Herrenschmidt1-0/+17
For devices with a class, we create a "glue" directory between the parent device and the new device with the class name. This directory is never "explicitely" removed when empty however, this is left to the implicit sysfs removal done by kobject_release() when the object loses its last reference via kobject_put(). This is problematic because as long as it's not been removed from sysfs, it is still present in the class kset and in sysfs directory structure. The presence in the class kset exposes a use after free bug fixed by the previous patch, but the presence in sysfs means that until the kobject is released, which can take a while (especially with kobject debugging), any attempt at re-creating such as binding a new device for that class/parent pair, will result in a sysfs duplicate file name error. This fixes it by instead doing an explicit kobject_del() when the glue dir is empty, by keeping track of the number of child devices of the gluedir. This is made easy by the fact that all glue dir operations are done with a global mutex, and there's already a function (cleanup_glue_dir) called in all the right places taking that mutex that can be enhanced for this. It appears that this was in fact the intent of the function, but the implementation was wrong. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-12-07kobject: Remove redundant license textGreg Kroah-Hartman1-2/+0
Now that the SPDX tag is in all kobject files, that identifies the license in a specific and legally-defined manner. So the extra GPL text wording can be removed as it is no longer needed at all. This is done on a quest to remove the 700+ different ways that files in the kernel describe the GPL license text. And there's unneeded stuff like the address (sometimes incorrect) for the FSF which is never needed. No copyright headers or other non-license-description text was removed. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-12-07kobject: add SPDX identifiers to all kobject filesGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+1
It's good to have SPDX identifiers in all files to make it easier to audit the kernel tree for correct licenses. Update the kobject files files with the correct SPDX license identifier based on the license text in the file itself. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This work is based on a script and data from Thomas Gleixner, Philippe Ombredanne, and Kate Stewart. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-08-14Merge 4.13-rc5 into driver-core-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman1-1/+1
We want the fixes in here as well for testing. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-07-22Merge branch 'bind_unbind' into driver-core-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+2
This merges the bind_unbind driver core feature into the driver-core-next branch. bind_unbind is a branch so that others can pull and work off of it safely. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-07-22driver core: emit uevents when device is bound to a driverDmitry Torokhov1-0/+2
There are certain touch controllers that may come up in either normal (application) or boot mode, depending on whether firmware/configuration is corrupted when they are powered on. In boot mode the kernel does not create input device instance (because it does not necessarily know the characteristics of the input device in question). Another number of controllers does not store firmware in a non-volatile memory, and they similarly need to have firmware loaded before input device instance is created. There are also other types of devices with similar behavior. There is a desire to be able to trigger firmware loading via udev, but it has to happen only when driver is bound to a physical device (i2c or spi). These udev actions can not use ADD events, as those happen too early, so we are introducing BIND and UNBIND events that are emitted at the right moment. Also, many drivers create additional driver-specific device attributes when binding to the device, to provide userspace with additional controls. The new events allow userspace to adjust these driver-specific attributes without worrying that they are not there yet. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-07-19Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.13-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linuxLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
Pull structure randomization updates from Kees Cook: "Now that IPC and other changes have landed, enable manual markings for randstruct plugin, including the task_struct. This is the rest of what was staged in -next for the gcc-plugins, and comes in three patches, largest first: - mark "easy" structs with __randomize_layout - mark task_struct with an optional anonymous struct to isolate the __randomize_layout section - mark structs to opt _out_ of automated marking (which will come later) And, FWIW, this continues to pass allmodconfig (normal and patched to enable gcc-plugins) builds of x86_64, i386, arm64, arm, powerpc, and s390 for me" * tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.13-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: randstruct: opt-out externally exposed function pointer structs task_struct: Allow randomized layout randstruct: Mark various structs for randomization
2017-06-30randstruct: Mark various structs for randomizationKees Cook1-1/+1
This marks many critical kernel structures for randomization. These are structures that have been targeted in the past in security exploits, or contain functions pointers, pointers to function pointer tables, lists, workqueues, ref-counters, credentials, permissions, or are otherwise sensitive. This initial list was extracted from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my understanding of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are mine and don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code. Left out of this list is task_struct, which requires special handling and will be covered in a subsequent patch. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2017-05-25kobject: support passing in variables for synthetic ueventsPeter Rajnoha1-3/+1
This patch makes it possible to pass additional arguments in addition to uevent action name when writing /sys/.../uevent attribute. These additional arguments are then inserted into generated synthetic uevent as additional environment variables. Before, we were not able to pass any additional uevent environment variables for synthetic uevents. This made it hard to identify such uevents properly in userspace to make proper distinction between genuine uevents originating from kernel and synthetic uevents triggered from userspace. Also, it was not possible to pass any additional information which would make it possible to optimize and change the way the synthetic uevents are processed back in userspace based on the originating environment of the triggering action in userspace. With the extra additional variables, we are able to pass through this extra information needed and also it makes it possible to synchronize with such synthetic uevents as they can be clearly identified back in userspace. The format for writing the uevent attribute is following: ACTION [UUID [KEY=VALUE ...] There's no change in how "ACTION" is recognized - it stays the same ("add", "change", "remove"). The "ACTION" is the only argument required to generate synthetic uevent, the rest of arguments, that this patch adds support for, are optional. The "UUID" is considered as transaction identifier so it's possible to use the same UUID value for one or more synthetic uevents in which case we logically group these uevents together for any userspace listeners. The "UUID" is expected to be in "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx" format where "x" is a hex digit. The value appears in uevent as "SYNTH_UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx" environment variable. The "KEY=VALUE" pairs can contain alphanumeric characters only. It's possible to define zero or more more pairs - each pair is then delimited by a space character " ". Each pair appears in synthetic uevents as "SYNTH_ARG_KEY=VALUE" environment variable. That means the KEY name gains "SYNTH_ARG_" prefix to avoid possible collisions with existing variables. To pass the "KEY=VALUE" pairs, it's also required to pass in the "UUID" part for the synthetic uevent first. If "UUID" is not passed in, the generated synthetic uevent gains "SYNTH_UUID=0" environment variable automatically so it's possible to identify this situation in userspace when reading generated uevent and so we can still make a difference between genuine and synthetic uevents. Signed-off-by: Peter Rajnoha <prajnoha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-03-22kobject: Export kobject_get_unless_zero()Jan Kara1-0/+2
Make the function available for outside use and fortify it against NULL kobject. CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-10-04kobject: explain what kobject's sd field isUlf Magnusson1-1/+1
(More) unclear, especially name-wise, after sysfs_dirent became kernfs_node. Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-07-17include, lib: add __printf attributes to several function prototypesNicolas Iooss1-2/+3
Using __printf attributes helps to detect several format string issues at compile time (even though -Wformat-security is currently disabled in Makefile). For example it can detect when formatting a pointer as a number, like the issue fixed in commit a3fa71c40f18 ("wl18xx: show rx_frames_per_rates as an array as it really is"), or when the arguments do not match the format string, c.f. for example commit 5ce1aca81435 ("reiserfs: fix __RASSERT format string"). To prevent similar bugs in the future, add a __printf attribute to every function prototype which needs one in include/linux/ and lib/. These functions were mostly found by using gcc's -Wsuggest-attribute=format flag. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-25kobject: Make support for uevent_helper optional.Michael Marineau1-0/+2
Support for uevent_helper, aka hotplug, is not required on many systems these days but it can still be enabled via sysfs or sysctl. Reported-by: Darren Shepherd <darren.s.shepherd@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Marineau <mike@marineau.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-04-03kobject: don't block for each kobject_ueventVladimir Davydov1-0/+1
Currently kobject_uevent has somewhat unpredictable semantics. The point is, since it may call a usermode helper and wait for it to execute (UMH_WAIT_EXEC), it is impossible to say for sure what lock dependencies it will introduce for the caller - strictly speaking it depends on what fs the binary is located on and the set of locks fork may take. There are quite a few kobject_uevent's users that do not take this into account and call it with various mutexes taken, e.g. rtnl_mutex, net_mutex, which might potentially lead to a deadlock. Since there is actually no reason to wait for the usermode helper to execute there, let's make kobject_uevent start the helper asynchronously with the aid of the UMH_NO_WAIT flag. Personally, I'm interested in this, because I really want kobject_uevent to be called under the slab_mutex in the slub implementation as it used to be some time ago, because it greatly simplifies synchronization and automatically fixes a kmemcg-related race. However, there was a deadlock detected on an attempt to call kobject_uevent under the slab_mutex (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/14/45), which was reported to be fixed by releasing the slab_mutex for kobject_uevent. Unfortunately, there was no information about who exactly blocked on the slab_mutex causing the usermode helper to stall, neither have I managed to find this out or reproduce the issue. BTW, this is not the first attempt to make kobject_uevent use UMH_NO_WAIT. Previous one was made by commit f520360d93cd ("kobject: don't block for each kobject_uevent"), but it was wrong (it passed arguments allocated on stack to async thread) so it was reverted in 05f54c13cd0c ("Revert "kobject: don't block for each kobject_uevent"."). It targeted on speeding up the boot process though. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-12-11kernfs: s/sysfs_dirent/kernfs_node/ and rename its friends accordinglyTejun Heo1-1/+1
kernfs has just been separated out from sysfs and we're already in full conflict mode. Nothing can make the situation any worse. Let's take the chance to name things properly. This patch performs the following renames. * s/sysfs_elem_dir/kernfs_elem_dir/ * s/sysfs_elem_symlink/kernfs_elem_symlink/ * s/sysfs_elem_attr/kernfs_elem_file/ * s/sysfs_dirent/kernfs_node/ * s/sd/kn/ in kernfs proper * s/parent_sd/parent/ * s/target_sd/target/ * s/dir_sd/parent/ * s/to_sysfs_dirent()/rb_to_kn()/ * misc renames of local vars when they conflict with the above Because md, mic and gpio dig into sysfs details, this patch ends up modifying them. All are sysfs_dirent renames and trivial. While we can avoid these by introducing a dummy wrapping struct sysfs_dirent around kernfs_node, given the limited usage outside kernfs and sysfs proper, I don't think such workaround is called for. This patch is strictly rename only and doesn't introduce any functional difference. - mic / gpio renames were missing. Spotted by kbuild test robot. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com> Cc: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-09-26sysfs: remove ktype->namespace() invocations in directory codeTejun Heo1-0/+1
For some unrecognizable reason, namespace information is communicated to sysfs through ktype->namespace() callback when there's *nothing* which needs the use of a callback. The whole sequence of operations is completely synchronous and sysfs operations simply end up calling back into the layer which just invoked it in order to find out the namespace information, which is completely backwards, obfuscates what's going on and unnecessarily tangles two separate layers. This patch doesn't remove ktype->namespace() but shifts its handling to kobject layer. We probably want to get rid of the callback in the long term. This patch adds an explicit param to sysfs_{create|rename|move}_dir() and renames them to sysfs_{create|rename|move}_dir_ns(), respectively. ktype->namespace() invocations are moved to the calling sites of the above functions. A new helper kboject_namespace() is introduced which directly tests kobj_ns_type_operations->type which should give the same result as testing sysfs_fs_type(parent_sd) and returns @kobj's namespace tag as necessary. kobject_namespace() is extern as it will be used from another file in the following patches. This patch should be an equivalent conversion without any functional difference. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-25kobject: delayed kobject release: help find buggy driversRussell King1-0/+4
Implement debugging for kobject release functions. kobjects are reference counted, so the drop of the last reference to them is not predictable. However, the common case is for the last reference to be the kobject's removal from a subsystem, which results in the release function being immediately called. This can hide subtle bugs, which can occur when another thread holds a reference to the kobject at the same time that a kobject is removed. This results in the release method being delayed. In order to make these kinds of problems more visible, the following patch implements a delayed release; this has the effect that the release function will be out of order with respect to the removal of the kobject in the same manner that it would be if a reference was being held. This provides us with an easy way to allow driver writers to debug their drivers and fix otherwise hidden problems. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-11-28kobject: remove CONFIG_HOTPLUG ifdefsBill Pemberton1-18/+0
Remove conditional code based on CONFIG_HOTPLUG being false. It's always on now in preparation of it going away as an option. Signed-off-by: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-09-06kobject: fix oops with "input0: bad kobj_uevent_env content in show_uevent()"Bjørn Mork1-1/+1
Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> writes: > After the __devinit* removal series, I can still get kernel panic in > show_uevent(). So there are more sources of bug.. > > Debug patch: > > @@ -343,8 +343,11 @@ static ssize_t show_uevent(struct device > goto out; > > /* copy keys to file */ > - for (i = 0; i < env->envp_idx; i++) > + dev_err(dev, "uevent %d env[%d]: %s/.../%s\n", env->buflen, env->envp_idx, top_kobj->name, dev->kobj.name); > + for (i = 0; i < env->envp_idx; i++) { > + printk(KERN_ERR "uevent %d env[%d]: %s\n", (int)count, i, env->envp[i]); > count += sprintf(&buf[count], "%s\n", env->envp[i]); > + } > > Oops message, the env[] is again not properly initilized: > > [ 44.068623] input input0: uevent 61 env[805306368]: input0/.../input0 > [ 44.069552] uevent 0 env[0]: (null) This is a completely different CONFIG_HOTPLUG problem, only demonstrating another reason why CONFIG_HOTPLUG should go away. I had a hard time trying to disable it anyway ;-) The problem this time is lots of code assuming that a call to add_uevent_var() will guarantee that env->buflen > 0. This is not true if CONFIG_HOTPLUG is unset. So things like this end up overwriting env->envp_idx because the array index is -1: if (add_uevent_var(env, "MODALIAS=")) return -ENOMEM; len = input_print_modalias(&env->buf[env->buflen - 1], sizeof(env->buf) - env->buflen, dev, 0); Don't know what the best action is, given that there seem to be a *lot* of this around the kernel. This patch "fixes" the problem for me, but I don't know if it can be considered an appropriate fix. [ It is the correct fix for now, for 3.7 forcing CONFIG_HOTPLUG to always be on is the longterm fix, but it's too late for 3.6 and older kernels to resolve this that way - gregkh ] Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2011-12-21kobject: remove kset_find_obj_hinted()Kay Sievers1-2/+0
Now that there are no in-kernel users of this function, remove it as it is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-10-31treewide: use __printf not __attribute__((format(printf,...)))Joe Perches1-14/+12
Standardize the style for compiler based printf format verification. Standardized the location of __printf too. Done via script and a little typing. $ grep -rPl --include=*.[ch] -w "__attribute__" * | \ grep -vP "^(tools|scripts|include/linux/compiler-gcc.h)" | \ xargs perl -n -i -e 'local $/; while (<>) { s/\b__attribute__\s*\(\s*\(\s*format\s*\(\s*printf\s*,\s*(.+)\s*,\s*(.+)\s*\)\s*\)\s*\)/__printf($1, $2)/g ; print; }' [akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert arch bits] Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>Arun Sharma1-1/+1
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h> (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h> Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-18kobject.h: fix build when CONFIG_HOTPLUG is disabledRandy Dunlap1-3/+2
When CONFIG_HOTPLUG is not enabled, the inline function add_uevent_var() needs to have its __attribute__ before the function name/parameters, otherwise there are syntax errors. linux-next-20110207/include/linux/kobject.h:232: error: expected ',' or ';' before '{' token Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-02-03kobject: Add missing format attribute specificationsBart Van Assche1-2/+5
Several functions in <linux/kobject.h> accept printf-style arguments. Some of these functions have been annotated with a format attribute declaration while others have not been annotated. Add a format attribute specification where it is missing. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-10-22kobject: Introduce kset_find_obj_hinted.Robin Holt1-0/+2
One call chain getting to kset_find_obj is: link_mem_sections() find_mem_section() kset_find_obj() This is done during boot. The memory sections were added in a linearly increasing order and link_mem_sections tends to utilize them in that same linear order. Introduce a kset_find_obj_hinted which is passed the result of the previous kset_find_obj which it uses for a quick "is the next object our desired object" check before falling back to the old behavior. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> To: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-23kobject: Break the kobject namespace defs into their own headerDavid Howells1-34/+1
Break the kobject namespace defs into their own header to avoid a header file inclusion ordering problem between linux/sysfs.h and linux/kobject.h. This fixes the build breakage on older versions of gcc. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21netns: Teach network device kobjects which namespace they are in.Eric W. Biederman1-0/+1
The problem. Network devices show up in sysfs and with the network namespace active multiple devices with the same name can show up in the same directory, ouch! To avoid that problem and allow existing applications in network namespaces to see the same interface that is currently presented in sysfs, this patch enables the tagging directory support in sysfs. By using the network namespace pointers as tags to separate out the the sysfs directory entries we ensure that we don't have conflicts in the directories and applications only see a limited set of the network devices. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21sysfs: Comment sysfs directory tagging logicSerge E. Hallyn1-0/+11
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 <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21kobj: Add basic infrastructure for dealing with namespaces.Eric W. Biederman1-0/+26
Move complete knowledge of namespaces into the kobject layer so we can use that information when reporting kobjects to userspace. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_typeEmese Revfy1-2/+2
Constify struct sysfs_ops. This is part of the ops structure constification effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al. Benefits of this constification: * prevents modification of data that is shared (referenced) by many other structure instances at runtime * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional) modification attempts on archs that enforce read-only kernel data at runtime * potentially better optimized code as the compiler can assume that the const data cannot be changed * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata and therefore exclude them from false sharing Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07kobject: Constify struct kset_uevent_opsEmese Revfy1-5/+5
Constify struct kset_uevent_ops. This is part of the ops structure constification effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al. Benefits of this constification: * prevents modification of data that is shared (referenced) by many other structure instances at runtime * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional) modification attempts on archs that enforce read-only kernel data at runtime * potentially better optimized code as the compiler can assume that the const data cannot be changed * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata and therefore exclude them from false sharing Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24Driver core: implement uevent suppress in kobjectMing Lei1-0/+1
This patch implements uevent suppress in kobject and removes it from struct device, based on the following ideas: 1,Uevent sending should be one attribute of kobject, so suppressing it in kobject layer is more natural than in device layer. By this way, we can do it for other objects embedded with kobject. 2,It may save several bytes for each instance of struct device.(On my omap3(32bit ARM) based box, can save 8bytes per device object) This patch also introduces dev_set|get_uevent_suppress() helpers to set and query uevent_suppress attribute in case to help kobject as private part of struct device in future. [This version is against the latest driver-core patch set of Greg,please ignore the last version.] Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string arrayKay Sievers1-0/+2
Now that all users of bus_id is gone, we can remove it from struct device. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-24mm: create /sys/kernel/mmNishanth Aravamudan1-0/+2
Add a kobject to create /sys/kernel/mm when sysfs is mounted. The kobject will exist regardless. This will allow for the hugepage related sysfs directories to exist under the mm "subsystem" directory. Add an ABI file appropriately. [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix build] Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-21kobject: reorder kobject to save space on 64 bit buildsRichard Kennedy1-1/+1
reorder kobject to save space on 64 bit builds. shrinks from 72 to 64 bytes & moves allocated kobject to a smaller slab. Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21driver core: remove KOBJ_NAME_LEN defineKay Sievers1-1/+0
Kobjects do not have a limit in name size since a while, so stop pretending that they do. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-30Remove "#ifdef __KERNEL__" checks from unexported headersRobert P. J. Day1-3/+0
Remove the "#ifdef __KERNEL__" tests from unexported header files in linux/include whose entire contents are wrapped in that preprocessor test. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-24Kobject: fix coding style issues in kobject.hGreg Kroah-Hartman1-33/+34
Finally clean up the odd spaces and other mess in kobject.h Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Driver core: change sysdev classes to use dynamic kobject namesKay Sievers1-11/+2
All kobjects require a dynamically allocated name now. We no longer need to keep track if the name is statically assigned, we can just unconditionally free() all kobject names on cleanup. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Kobject: remove kobject_unregister() as no one uses it anymoreGreg Kroah-Hartman1-2/+0
There are no in-kernel users of kobject_unregister() so it should be removed. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Kobject: auto-cleanup on final unrefKay Sievers1-0/+5
We save the current state in the object itself, so we can do proper cleanup when the last reference is dropped. If the initial reference is dropped, the object will be removed from sysfs if needed, if an "add" event was sent, "remove" will be send, and the allocated resources are released. This allows us to clean up some driver core usage as well as allowing us to do other such changes to the rest of the kernel. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Kset: remove kset_add functionGreg Kroah-Hartman1-1/+0
No one is calling this anymore, so just remove it and hard-code the one internal-use of it. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Kobject: remove kobject_register()Greg Kroah-Hartman1-1/+0
The function is no longer used by anyone in the kernel, and it prevents the proper sending of the kobject uevent after the needed files are set up by the caller. kobject_init_and_add() can be used in its place. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Kobject: rename kobject_init_ng() to kobject_init()Greg Kroah-Hartman1-1/+1
Now that the old kobject_init() function is gone, rename kobject_init_ng() to kobject_init() to clean up the namespace. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Kobject: remove kobject_init() as no one uses it anymoreGreg Kroah-Hartman1-1/+0
The old kobject_init() function is on longer in use, so let us remove it from the public scope (kset mess in the kobject.c file still uses it, but that can be cleaned up later very simply.) Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Kobject: rename kobject_add_ng() to kobject_add()Greg Kroah-Hartman1-3/+3
Now that the old kobject_add() function is gone, rename kobject_add_ng() to kobject_add() to clean up the namespace. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Kobject: remove kobject_add() as no one uses it anymoreGreg Kroah-Hartman1-1/+0
The old kobject_add() function is on longer in use, so let us remove it from the public scope (kset mess in the kobject.c file still uses it, but that can be cleaned up later very simply.) Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>