Hello,
This patchset contains 34 patches to separate out core sysfs features
into kernfs. kernfs exclusively deals with sysfs_dirent, which will
be later renamed to kernfs_node, and kernfs_ops. sysfs becomes a
wrapping layer over sysfs which interfaces kobject and
[bin_]attribute.
The goal of these changes is to allow other users to make use of the
core features of sysfs instead of rolling their own pseudo filesystem
implementation which usually fails to deal with issues with file
shutdowns, locking separation from vfs layer and so on. This patchset
refactors sysfs and separates out most core functionalities to kernfs;
however, the mount code hasn't been updated yet and it can't be used
by other users yet. The patchset is pretty big already and the two
steps can be separated relatively well, so I think this is a good
split point.
This patchset shouldn't introduce any behavior differences and
contains the following 34 patches.
0001-sysfs-merge-sysfs_elem_bin_attr-into-sysfs_elem_attr.patch
0002-sysfs-honor-bin_attr.attr.ignore_lockdep.patch
0003-sysfs-remove-unused-sysfs_get_dentry-prototype.patch
0004-sysfs-move-sysfs_hash_and_remove-to-fs-sysfs-dir.c.patch
0005-sysfs-separate-out-dup-filename-warning-into-a-separ.patch
0006-sysfs-make-__sysfs_add_one-fail-if-the-parent-isn-t-.patch
0007-sysfs-kernfs-add-skeletons-for-kernfs.patch
0008-sysfs-kernfs-introduce-kernfs_remove-_by_name-_ns.patch
0009-sysfs-kernfs-introduce-kernfs_create_link.patch
0010-sysfs-kernfs-introduce-kernfs_rename-_ns.patch
0011-sysfs-kernfs-introduce-kernfs_setattr.patch
0012-sysfs-kernfs-replace-sysfs_dirent-s_dir.kobj-and-s_a.patch
0013-sysfs-kernfs-introduce-kernfs_create_dir-_ns.patch
0014-sysfs-kernfs-prepare-read-path-for-kernfs.patch
0015-sysfs-kernfs-prepare-write-path-for-kernfs.patch
0016-sysfs-kernfs-prepare-llseek-path-for-kernfs.patch
0017-sysfs-kernfs-prepare-mmap-path-for-kernfs.patch
0018-sysfs-kernfs-prepare-open-release-poll-paths-for-ker.patch
0019-sysfs-kernfs-move-sysfs_open_file-to-include-linux-k.patch
0020-sysfs-kernfs-introduce-kernfs_ops.patch
0021-sysfs-kernfs-add-sysfs_dirent-s_attr.size.patch
0022-sysfs-kernfs-remove-SYSFS_KOBJ_BIN_ATTR.patch
0023-sysfs-kernfs-introduce-kernfs_create_file-_ns.patch
0024-sysfs-kernfs-remove-sysfs_add_one.patch
0025-sysfs-kernfs-add-kernfs_ops-seq_-start-next-stop.patch
0026-sysfs-kernfs-introduce-kernfs_notify.patch
0027-sysfs-kernfs-reorganize-SYSFS_-constants.patch
0028-sysfs-kernfs-revamp-sysfs_dirent-active_ref-lockdep-.patch
0029-sysfs-kernfs-introduce-kernfs-_find_and-_get-and-ke.patch
0030-sysfs-kernfs-move-internal-decls-to-fs-kernfs-kernfs.patch
0031-sysfs-kernfs-move-inode-code-to-fs-kernfs-inode.c.patch
0032-sysfs-kernfs-move-dir-core-code-to-fs-kernfs-dir.c.patch
0033-sysfs-kernfs-move-file-core-code-to-fs-kernfs-file.c.patch
0034-sysfs-kernfs-move-symlink-core-code-to-fs-kernfs-sym.patch
0001-0006 are prep patches.
0007 preps fs/kernfs/ directory with skeleton files.
0008-0029 refactor various code paths so that all externally visible
interfaces are split to core kernfs interface which deals with
sysfs_dirent and kernfs_ops and sysfs wrapping it to provide the
existing interface.
0030-0034 move kernfs part of the implementation under fs/kernfs.
This patchset is on top of
driver-core-next 0cba7de7f6cd ("input: gameport: convert bus code to use
dev_groups")
+ [1] sysfs: fix sysfs_write_file for bin file
While this patchset doesn't depend on it, it probably would be a good
idea to apply the fix for devm.kmalloc bug before applying these as
that bug makes bisecting quite painful.
diffstat follows. Thanks.
fs/Makefile | 2 +-
fs/kernfs/Makefile | 5 +
fs/kernfs/dir.c | 978 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/kernfs/file.c | 800 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/kernfs/inode.c | 336 +++++++++++++++
fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h | 157 +++++++
fs/kernfs/symlink.c | 147 +++++++
fs/sysfs/Makefile | 2 +-
fs/sysfs/dir.c | 965 +------------------------------------------
fs/sysfs/file.c | 914 ++++++++---------------------------------
fs/sysfs/group.c | 59 +--
fs/sysfs/inode.c | 357 ----------------
fs/sysfs/mount.c | 14 -
fs/sysfs/symlink.c | 156 +------
fs/sysfs/sysfs.h | 208 +---------
include/linux/kernfs.h | 185 +++++++++
include/linux/sysfs.h | 43 +-
17 files changed, 2871 insertions(+), 2457 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 fs/kernfs/Makefile
create mode 100644 fs/kernfs/dir.c
create mode 100644 fs/kernfs/file.c
create mode 100644 fs/kernfs/inode.c
create mode 100644 fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h
create mode 100644 fs/kernfs/symlink.c
delete mode 100644 fs/sysfs/inode.c
create mode 100644 include/linux/kernfs.h
--
tejun
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1584113
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