[PATCH] udevd: serialization of the event sequence of a chain of devices
Currently udevd delays only events for the same DEVPATH.
Example of an "add" event sequence:
/block/sda
/block/sda/sda1
With this change, we make sure, that the udev process handling
/block/sda has finished its work (waited for all attributes,
created the node) before we fork the udev event for /block/sda/sda1.
This way the event for sda1 can be sure, that the node for the
main device is already created (may be useful for disk labels).
It will not affect any parallel device handling, only the sequence
of the devices directory chain is serialized. The 10.000 disks
plugged in will still run as parallel events. :)
The main motivation to do this is the program execution of the
dev.d/ and hotplug.d/ directory. If we don't wait for the parent
event to exit, we can't be sure that the executed scripts are
run in the right order.
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 09:18:28AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 19:07 -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> > Could that argument apply to the underlying hardware, too?
> We now make sure that the sequence of events for a device
> is serialized for every device chain and the class/block
> devices which have a "device" link to a physical device are
> handled after the physical device is fully populated and
> notified to userspace. It will only work this way on kernels
> later than 2.6.10-rc1 cause it depends on the PHYSDEVPATH
> value in the hotplug environment.
[PATCH] Various typos and other litte errors in udev.8.in
Thanks-To: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@access.unizh.ch>
While crawling through the udev manpage I noticed some typos and other
grammatical errors. English is not my native language, so I'm not sure
if I fixed everything right. I would be glad if any English-speaking
person could check this patch before applying.
Initialize the defaults in udev_config.c instead of namedev.c.
Replace macro by expanded code. Switch to mode_t instead
of string value. Add and clarify some comments.
[PATCH] update the man pages and correct Usage: hints
Add UDEV_LOG to the man udev man page. Remove mention of specific
variables from the udevd/udevsend man page as we changed to pass
the whole environment.
Correct printed Usage: of udevtest and udevinfo.
Init the config in udevtest earlier to accept input with and without
the sysfs mount point.
[PATCH] don't call dev.d/ scripts twice, if directory = subsystem
The /etc/dev.d/input/input.dev was called twice for /dev/input/mouse.
Skip the execution if we get a directory named after the subsystem.
Move UDEV_NO_DEVD where it belongs.
I just noticed that the DEVNAME enviroment variable isn't being set anymore
in udev 0.046 on device removal, while it was being set in 0.042. We're using
the property tto do umount -l <devices> when a block device is removed. Afaik
there is no other way to associate a device with it's DEVNAME on removal ?
Also are there cases where doing umount -l on the removed devices is wrong?
I guess the device is gone, so there is no sense in keeping it mounted (it's
not like the filesystem is gonna come back in a sane state again)..
Attached (trivial) patch brings back the DEVNAME variable on device removal.
[PATCH] Patch from Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
> I just put const's at some places. It cut down data segments, but
> increased code size.
> Overall still smaller:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 user users 50420 Nov 19 10:53 ../udev-046/udev
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 user users 49556 Nov 19 10:53 udev
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 47245 968 22480 70693 11425 ../udev-046/udev
> 48089 104 22064 70257 11271 udev
>
> Also, the instance of utsname in udev_lib.c is used only once.
The slow logging facilites on some systems are a reason for
the reported slowness of udevstart. On one of my boxes udevstart
is down from 9 second to 0.3 seconds.
Some broken ide drivers are generating high event traffic, with
add/remove events. With this attribute, it can be specified,
that the node is always available. It may be used in conjunction
with the new DRIVER= match to catch specific kernel device drivers.
The option "-s" will get information about the major/minor,
the physical device, the bus value and the driver from sysfs for
all class and block devices:
Make _all_ hotplug variables available to the forked udev,
the udev callouts and the udev dev.d/ scripts. We put the
whole environment into a buffer and send it over the udevd
socket. udevd recreates *envp[] and passes it to the exec().
[PATCH] replace tdb database by simple lockless file database
This makes the udev operation completely lockless by storing a
file for every node in /dev/.udevdb/* This solved the problem
with deadlocking concurrent udev processes waiting for each other
to release the file lock under heavy load.
Here is a few updates for the udev.rules.gentoo from udev package.
I will summarise it briefly:
1) The last change you did to legacy tty's is wrong.
I say this because:
1a) The original devfs rules had both master and slave in /dev/pty:
nosferatu linux # grep devfs_name drivers/char/pty.c
pty_driver->devfs_name = "pty/m";
pty_slave_driver->devfs_name = "pty/s";
nosferatu linux #
1b) If you refer to '2.6.8.1-mm1 Tty problems?', you will see that
the /dev/tty/ directory our rules create, replaces this symlink:
nosferatu portage # ls -l /dev/tty
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 0 Nov 14 17:06 /dev/tty
nosferatu portage #
which is used to determine the controlling tty.
2) Somebody added the /dev/cpu/microcode rule, but it was not run
as there was an older rule before that placing it in /dev/misc (which
is wrong). Just remove the first broken rule
3) Some form/tab cleanups. Reorder rules alphabetically according to
device class to make searching/editing easier.