This can be broken down into these major areas:
- Documentation updates (language translations and fixes, as
well as kobject and kset documenatation updates.)
- major kset/kobject/ktype rework and fixes. This cleans up the
kset and kobject and ktype relationship and architecture,
making sense of things now, and good documenation and samples
are provided for others to use. Also the attributes for
kobjects are much easier to handle now. This cleaned up a LOT
of code all through the kernel, making kobjects easier to use
if you want to.
- struct bus_type has been reworked to now handle the lifetime
rules properly, as the kobject is properly dynamic.
- struct driver has also been reworked, and now the lifetime
issues are resolved.
- the block subsystem has been converted to use struct device
now, and not "raw" kobjects. This patch has been in the -mm
tree for over a year now, and finally all the issues are
worked out with it. Older distros now properly work with new
kernels, and no userspace updates are needed at all.
- nozomi driver is added. This has also been in -mm for a long
time, and many people have asked for it to go in. It is now
in good enough shape to do so.
- lots of class_device conversions to use struct device instead.
The tree is almost all cleaned up now, only SCSI and IB is the
remaining code to fix up...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (196 commits)
Driver core: coding style fixes
Kobject: fix coding style issues in kobject c files
Kobject: fix coding style issues in kobject.h
Driver core: fix coding style issues in device.h
spi: use class iteration api
scsi: use class iteration api
rtc: use class iteration api
power supply : use class iteration api
ieee1394: use class iteration api
Driver Core: add class iteration api
Driver core: Cleanup get_device_parent() in device_add() and device_move()
UIO: constify function pointer tables
Driver Core: constify the name passed to platform_device_register_simple
driver core: fix build with SYSFS=n
sysfs: make SYSFS_DEPRECATED depend on SYSFS
Driver core: use LIST_HEAD instead of call to INIT_LIST_HEAD in __init
kobject: add sample code for how to use ksets/ktypes/kobjects
kobject: add sample code for how to use kobjects in a simple manner.
kobject: update the kobject/kset documentation
kobject: remove old, outdated documentation.
...
If the node we're booting on doesn't have memory, bootstrapping kmalloc()
caches resorts to fallback_alloc() which requires ->nodelists set for all
nodes. Fix that by calling set_up_list3s() for CACHE_CACHE in
kmem_cache_init().
As kmem_getpages() is called with GFP_THISNODE set, this used to work before
because of breakage in 2.6.22 and before with GFP_THISNODE returning pages from
the wrong node if a node had no memory. So it may have worked accidentally and
in an unsafe manner because the pages would have been associated with the wrong
node which could trigger bug ons and locking troubles.
Tested-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Tested-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
[ With additional one-liner by Olaf Hering - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix overwriting the stack with the version string
(it is currently 10 bytes + zero) when unloading the
capidrv module. Safeguard against overwriting it
should the version string grow in the future.
Should fix Kernel Bug Tracker Bug 9696.
Signed-off-by: Gerd v. Egidy <gerd.von.egidy@intra2net.com>
Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix up a number of coding style issues in the drivers/base/ directory
that have annoyed me over the years. checkpatch.pl is now very happy.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Convert to use the class iteration api.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Convert to use the class iteration api.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Convert to use the class iteration api.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Convert to use the class iteration api.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Convert to use the class iteration api.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add the following class iteration functions for driver use:
class_for_each_device
class_find_device
class_for_each_child
class_find_child
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Make setup_parent() void as get_device_parent() will always return
either a valid kobject or NULL.
Introduce cleanup_glue_dir() to drop reference grabbed on "glue"
directory by get_device_parent(). Use it for cleanup in device_move()
and device_add() on errors.
This should fix the refcounting problem reported in
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120052487909200&w=2
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This name is just passed to platform_device_alloc which has its parameter
declared const.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
When SYSFS=n and MODULES=y, build ends with:
linux-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/drivers/base/module.c: In function 'module_add_driver':
linux-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/drivers/base/module.c:49: error: 'module_kset' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[3]: *** [drivers/base/module.o] Error 1
Below is one possible fix.
Build-tested with all 4 config combinations of SYSFS & MODULES.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Make SYSFS_DEPRECATED depend on SYSFS since files that check
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED don't check for CONFIG_SYSFS first.
Also don't prompt user about SYSFS_DEPRECATED if SYSFS=n.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
LIST_HEAD has been widely used, so switch to this simpler method.
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This is a more complex example showing how to create a kset and a ktype
and some default attributes for a group of kobjects.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This is a simple kobject module, showing how to use kobj_attributes in
basic and more complex ways.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This provides a much-needed kobject and kset documentation update.
Thanks to Kay Sievers, Alan Stern, Jonathan Corbet, Randy Dunlap, Jan
Engelhardt, and others for reviewing and providing help with this
document.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
As we are replacing the documentation, it's easier to do this in a two
stage pass, delete the old file and add the new one.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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>
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>
There is no need for kobject_unregister() anymore, thanks to Kay's
kobject cleanup changes, so replace all instances of it with
kobject_put().
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
There is no need for kobject_unregister() anymore, thanks to Kay's
kobject cleanup changes, so replace all instances of it with
kobject_put().
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
There is no need for kobject_unregister() anymore, thanks to Kay's
kobject cleanup changes, so replace all instances of it with
kobject_put().
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
There is no need for kobject_unregister() anymore, thanks to Kay's
kobject cleanup changes, so replace all instances of it with
kobject_put().
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Now that kobjects properly clean up their name structures, no matter if
they have a release function or not, we can drop this empty module
kobject release function too (it was needed prior to this because of the
way we handled static kobject names, we based the fact that if a release
function was present, then we could safely free the name string, now we
are more smart about things and only free names we have previously set.)
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
This converts the code to use the new kobject functions, cleaning up the
logic in doing so.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This converts the code to use the new kobject functions, cleaning up the
logic in doing so.
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This converts the code to use the new kobject functions, cleaning up the
logic in doing so.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This converts the code to use the new kobject functions, cleaning up the
logic in doing so.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This moves the block devices to /sys/class/block. It will create a
flat list of all block devices, with the disks and partitions in one
directory. For compatibility /sys/block is created and contains symlinks
to the disks.
/sys/class/block
|-- sda -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda
|-- sda1 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda1
|-- sda10 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda10
|-- sda5 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda5
|-- sda6 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda6
|-- sda7 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda7
|-- sda8 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda8
|-- sda9 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda9
`-- sr0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0
/sys/block/
|-- sda -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda
`-- sr0 -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1015) reverts changes that were made to the driver core
about four years ago. The intent back then was to avoid certain kinds
of invalid memory accesses by leaving kernel objects allocated as long
as any of their children were still allocated. The original and
correct approach was to wait only as long as any children were still
_registered_; that's what this patch reinstates.
This fixes a problem in the SCSI core made visible by the class_device
to regular device conversion: A reference loop (scsi_device holds
reference to request_queue, which is the child of a gendisk, which is
the child of the scsi_device) prevents the data structures from being
released, even though they are deregistered okay.
It's possible that this change will cause a few bugs to surface,
things that have been hidden for several years. They can be fixed
easily enough by having the child device take an explicit reference to
the parent whenever needed.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sysfs symlinks now require fully registered kobjects as a target,
otherwise the call to create a symlink will fail. Here we register
the kobject before we request the symlink in the holders directory.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <teheo@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We should remove the glue directory between the class and the bus
device _after_ we sent out the 'remove' event for the device, otherwise
the parent relationship is no longer valid, and composing the path
with deleted sysfs entries will not work.
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1013) was suggested by David Woodhouse; it fixes a race
in the driver core. If a device is unregistered at the same time as
its driver is unloaded, the driver's code pages may be unmapped while
the remove method is still running. The calls to get_driver() and
put_driver() were intended to prevent this, but they don't work if the
driver's module count has already dropped to 0.
Instead, the patch keeps the device on the driver's list until after
the remove method has returned. This forces the necessary
synchronization to occur.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of
the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The driver core debugging messages are a mess. This provides a unified
message that makes them actually useful.
The format for new kobject debug messages should be:
driver/bus/class: 'OBJECT_NAME': FUNCTION_NAME: message.\n
Note, the class code is not changed in this patch due to pending patches
in my queue that this would conflict with. A later patch will clean
them up.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch removes the kobject, and a few other driver-core-only fields
out of struct driver and into the driver core only. Now drivers can be
safely create on the stack or statically (like they currently are.)
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The module driver specific code should belong in the driver core, not in
the kernel/ directory. So move this code. This is done in preparation
for some struct device_driver rework that should be confined to the
driver core code only.
This also lets us keep from exporting these functions, as no external
code should ever be calling it.
Thanks to Andrew Morton for the !CONFIG_MODULES fix.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
