From 6625b861f8f0e429902b8671b3e70792cd99074e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Zanussi Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 01:02:23 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] relayfs: decouple buffer creation from inode creation The patch series implementa or fixes 3 things that were specifically requested or suggested by relayfs users: - support for non-relay files (patches 1-6) Currently, the relayfs API only supports the creation of directories (relayfs_create_dir()) and relay files (relay_open()). These patches adds support for non-relay files (relayfs_create_file()). This is so relayfs applications can create 'control files' in relayfs itself rather than in /proc or via a netlink channel, as is currently done in the relay-app examples. Basically what this amounts to is exporting relayfs_create_file() with an additional file_ops param that clients can use to supply file operations for their own special-purpose files in relayfs. - make exported relay file ops useful (patches 7-8) The relayfs relay_file_operations have always been exported, the intent being to make it possible to create relay files in other filesystems such as debugfs. The problem, though, is that currently the file operations are too tightly coupled to relayfs to actually be used for this purpose. This patch fixes that by adding a couple of callback functions that allow a client to hook into relay_open()/close() and supply the files that will be used to represent the channel buffers; the default implementation if no callbacks are defined is to create the files in relayfs. - add an option to create global relay buffer (patches 9-10) The file creation callback also supplies an optional param, is_global, that can be used by clients to create a single global relayfs buffer instead of the default per-cpu buffers. This was suggested as being useful for certain debugging applications where it's more convenient to be able to get all the data from a single channel without having to go to the bother of dealing with per-cpu files. - cleanup, some renaming and Documentation updates (patches 11-12) There were several comments that the use of netlink in the example code was non-intuitive and in fact the whole relay-app business was needlessly confusing. Based on that feedback, the example code has been completely converted over to relayfs control files as supported by this patch, and have also been made completely self-contained. The converted examples along with a couple of new examples that demonstrate using exported relay files can be found in relay-apps tarball: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/relayfs/relay-apps-0.9.tar.gz?download This patch: Separate buffer create/destroy from inode create/destroy. We want to be able to associate other data and not just relay buffers with inodes. Buffer create/destroy is moved out of inode.c and into relayfs core code. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/relayfs/relay.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/relayfs/relay.h') diff --git a/fs/relayfs/relay.h b/fs/relayfs/relay.h index 703503fa22b6..c325bb243549 100644 --- a/fs/relayfs/relay.h +++ b/fs/relayfs/relay.h @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ struct dentry *relayfs_create_file(const char *name, struct dentry *parent, int mode, - struct rchan *chan); + void *data); extern int relayfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry); extern int relay_buf_empty(struct rchan_buf *buf); extern void relay_destroy_channel(struct kref *kref); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b