- 24 Mar, 2009 40 commits
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Arjan van de Ven authored
Right now, the kobject_uevent code blocks for each uevent that's being generated, due to using (for hystoric reasons) UHM_WAIT_EXEC as flag to call_usermode_helper(). Specifically, the effect is that each uevent that is being sent causes the code to wake up keventd, then block until keventd has processed the work. Needless to say, this happens many times during the system boot. This patches changes that to UHN_NO_WAIT (brilliant name for a constant btw) so that we only schedule the work to fire the uevent message, but do not wait for keventd to process the work. This removes one of the bottlenecks during boot; each one of them is only a small effect, but the sum of them does add up. [Note, distros that need this are broken, they should be setting CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH to "", that way this code path will never be excuted at all -- gregkh] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Alex Chiang authored
The only way for a sysfs attribute to remove itself (without deadlock) is to use the sysfs_schedule_callback() interface. Vegard Nossum discovered that a poorly written sysfs ->store callback can repeatedly schedule remove callbacks on the same device over and over, e.g. $ while true ; do echo 1 > /sys/devices/.../remove ; done If the 'remove' attribute uses the sysfs_schedule_callback API and also does not protect itself from concurrent accesses, its callback handler will be called multiple times, and will eventually attempt to perform operations on a freed kobject, leading to many problems. Instead of requiring all callers of sysfs_schedule_callback to implement their own synchronization, provide the protection in the infrastructure. Now, sysfs_schedule_callback will only allow one scheduled callback per kobject. On subsequent calls with the same kobject, return -EAGAIN. This is a short term fix. The long term fix is to allow sysfs attributes to remove themselves directly, without any of this callback hokey pokey. [cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com: s390 ccwgroup bits] Reported-by: vegard.nossum@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Cornelia Huck authored
dpm_list currently relies on the fact that child devices will be registered after their parents to get a correct suspend order. Using device_move() however destroys this assumption, as an already registered device may be moved under a newly registered one. This patch adds a new argument to device_move(), allowing callers to specify how dpm_list should be adapted. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Zhenwen Xu authored
do some cleanup on drivers/base/sys.c Signed-off-by: Zhenwen Xu <helight.xu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Ming Lei authored
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>
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Kay Sievers authored
During bootup performance tracing I noticed many occurrences of vca* device creation and removal, leading to the usual userspace uevent processing, which are, in this case, rather pointless. A simple test showing the kernel timing (not including all the work userspace has to do), gives us these numbers: $ time for i in `seq 1000`; do echo a > /dev/tty2; done real 0m1.142s user 0m0.015s sys 0m0.540s If we move the hook for the vcs* driver core devices from the tty "binding" to the vc allocation/deallocation, which is what the vcs* devices represent, we get the following numbers: $ time for i in `seq 1000`; do echo a > /dev/tty2; done real 0m0.152s user 0m0.030s sys 0m0.072s Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Ming Lei authored
We will remove platform_data field from struct device until all platform devices pass its specific data from platfom_device and all platform drivers use platform specific data passed by platform_device->platform_data. This kind of conversion will need a long time, for thousands of files is affected. To make the conversion easily, we allow platform specific data passed by struct device or struct platform_device and platform driver may use it from struct device or struct platform_device. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Ming Lei authored
This patch moves platform_data from struct device into struct platform_device, based on the two ideas: 1. Now all platform_driver is registered by platform_driver_register, which makes probe()/release()/... of platform_driver passed parameter of platform_device *, so platform driver can get platform_data from platform_device; 2. Other kind of devices do not need to use platform_data, we can decrease size of device if moving it to platform_device. Taking into consideration of thousands of files to be fixed and they can't be finished in one night(maybe it will take a long time), so we keep platform_data in device to allow two kind of cases coexist until all platform devices pass its platfrom data from platform_device->platform_data. All patches to do this kind of conversion are welcome. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Modify sysfs bin files so that we can remove the bin file while they are still mapped. When the kobject is removed we unmap the bin file and arrange for future accesses to the mapping to receive SIGBUS. Implementing this prevents a nasty DOS when pci devices are hot plugged and unplugged. Where if any of their resources were mmaped the kernel could not free up their pci resources or release their pci data structures. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unused var] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
Nothing outside of the driver core should ever touch knode_bus, so move it out of the public eye. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
Nothing outside of the driver core should ever touch knode_driver, so move it out of the public eye. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
Nothing outside of the driver core should ever touch klist_children, or knode_parent, so move them out of the public eye. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
This is to be used to move things out of struct device that no code outside of the driver core should ever touch. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Ming Lei authored
This patch removes 100ms polling for driver_probe_done in wait_for_device_probe(), and uses wait_event() instead. Removing polling in fs initialization may lead to a faster boot. This patch also changes the return type of wait_for_device_done() from int to void. This patch is against Arjan's patch in linux-next tree. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
The sysfs_dirent serves as both an inode and a directory entry for sysfs. To prevent the sysfs inode numbers from being freed prematurely hold a reference to sysfs_dirent from the sysfs inode. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Alex Chiang authored
sysfs: sysfs_add_one WARNs with full path to duplicate filename As a debugging aid, it can be useful to know the full path to a duplicate file being created in sysfs. We now will display warnings such as: sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/foo' when attempting to create multiple files named 'foo' in the sysfs root, or: sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/bus/pci/slots/5/foo' when attempting to create multiple files named 'foo' under a given directory in sysfs. The path displayed is always a relative path to sysfs_root. The leading '/' in the path name refers to the sysfs_root mount point, and should not be confused with the "real" '/'. Thanks to Alex Williamson for essentially writing sysfs_pathname. Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Dave Young authored
If the bus_type is not registerd, driver_register to that bus will cause oops. I found this bug when test built-in usb serial drivers (ie. aircable driver) with 'nousb' cmdline params. In this patch: 1. set the bus->p=NULL when bus_register failed and unregisterd. 2. if bus->p is NULL, driver_register BUG_ON will be triggered. Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Geert Uytterhoeven authored
The patch from Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> entitled: platform driver: fix incorrect use of 'platform_bus_type' with 'struct devic introduced the following warnings on m68k, as `dev' is now a `struct platform_device *' instead of a `struct device *': | drivers/scsi/a4000t.c:64: warning: passing argument 3 of 'NCR_700_detect' from incompatible pointer type | drivers/scsi/mvme16x_scsi.c:67: warning: passing argument 3 of 'NCR_700_detect' from incompatible pointer type | drivers/scsi/bvme6000_scsi.c:61: warning: passing argument 3 of 'NCR_700_detect' from incompatible pointer type I think the below is missing (untested on real hardware). Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Ming Lei authored
This patch fixes the bug reported in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11681. "Lots of device drivers register a 'struct device_driver' with the '.bus' member set to '&platform_bus_type'. This is wrong, since the platform_bus functions expect the 'struct device_driver' to be wrapped up in a 'struct platform_driver' which provides some additional callbacks (like suspend_late, resume_early). The effect may be that platform_suspend_late() uses bogus data outside the device_driver struct as a pointer pointer to the device driver's suspend_late() function or other hard to reproduce failures."(Lothar Wassmann) Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Ian Abbott authored
If a UIO memory region does not start on a page boundary but straddles one, the number of actual pages that overlap the memory region may be calculated incorrectly because the offset isn't taken into account. If userspace sets the mmap length to offset+size, it may fail with -EINVAL if UIO thinks it's trying to allocate too many pages. Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> Cc: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Brandon Philips authored
UIO driver for the Adrienne Electronics Corporation PCI time code device. This device differs from other UIO devices since it uses I/O ports instead of memory mapped I/O. In order to make it possible for UIO to work with this device a utility, uioport, can be used to read and write the ports. uioport is designed to be a setuid program and checks the permissions of the /dev/uio* node and if the user has write permissions it will use iopl and out*/in* to access the device. [1] git clone git://ifup.org/philips/uioport.gitSigned-off-by: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org> Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Hans J. Koch authored
If a UIO device has several memory mappings, it can be difficult for userspace to find the right one. The situation becomes even worse if the UIO driver can handle different versions of a card that have different numbers of mappings. Benedikt Spranger has such cards and pointed this out to me. Thanks, Bene! To address this problem, this patch adds "name" sysfs attributes for each mapping. Userspace can use these to clearly identify each mapping. The name string is optional. If a driver doesn't set it, an empty string will be returned, so this patch won't break existing drivers. The same problem exists for port region information, so a "name" attribute is added there, too. Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Eric Miao authored
Now platform_device is being widely used on SoC processors where the peripherals are attached to the system bus, which is simple enough. However, silicon IPs for these SoCs are usually shared heavily across a family of processors, even products from different companies. This makes the original simple driver name based matching insufficient, or simply not straight-forward. Introduce a module id table for platform devices, and makes it clear that a platform driver is able to support some shared IP and handle slight differences across different platforms (by 'driver_data'). Module alias is handled automatically when a MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() is defined. To not disturb the current platform drivers too much, the matched id entry is recorded and can be retrieved by platform_get_device_id(). Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Eric Miao authored
This helps the code look more consistent and cleaner. Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Ming Lei authored
This patch moves bus->match out from driver_probe_device and does not hold device lock to check the match between a device and a driver. The idea has been verified by the commit 6cd49586, which leads to a faster boot. But the commit 6cd49586 has the following drawbacks: 1),only does the quick check in the path of __driver_attach->driver_probe_device, not in other paths; 2),for a matched device and driver, check the same match twice. It is a waste of cpu ,especially for some drivers with long device id table (eg. usb-storage driver). This patch adds a helper of driver_match_device to check the match in all paths, and testes the match only once. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
sysfs_get_inode ultimately calls sysfs_count_nlink when the a directory inode is fectched. sysfs_count_nlink needs to be called under the sysfs_mutex to guard against the unlikely but possible scenario that the root directory is changing as we are counting the number entries in it, and just in general to be consistent. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Qinghuang Feng authored
SYSFS_MAGIC has been added into magic.h, so only use that definition in magic.h to avoid potential consistency problem. Signed-off-by: Qinghuang Feng <qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Kay Sievers authored
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>
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Sachin Sant authored
Replace references to bus_id with dev_name() to fix fhci driver build break. drivers/usb/host/fhci-hcd.c:586: error: struct device has no member named bus_id drivers/usb/host/fhci-hcd.c:653: error: struct device has no member named bus_id drivers/usb/host/fhci-dbg.c:111: error: struct device has no member named bus_id Signed-off-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
These simple debug statments should be using dev_dbg() instead of accessing bus_id directly (or they should use device_name). As bus_id is going away, this patch is necessary. Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Kay Sievers authored
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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Kay Sievers authored
Cc: inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com Cc: linux-wimax@intel.com Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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Kay Sievers authored
Cc: sameo@openedhand.com Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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Kay Sievers authored
Cc: James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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Kay Sievers authored
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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Kay Sievers authored
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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Kay Sievers authored
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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Kay Sievers authored
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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Kay Sievers authored
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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Kay Sievers authored
Cc: mchehab@infradead.org Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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