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>
Kay Sievers [Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:40:42 +0000 (01:40 +0100)]
Kobject: auto-cleanup on final unref
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>
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>
Kobject: remove kobject_init() as no one uses it anymore
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>
Kobject: remove kobject_add() as no one uses it anymore
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>
Kay Sievers [Mon, 21 May 2007 20:08:01 +0000 (22:08 +0200)]
Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core devices
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.
Alan Stern [Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:53:40 +0000 (10:53 -0500)]
Kobject: drop child->parent ref at unregistration
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>
Kay Sievers [Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:46:11 +0000 (23:46 +0100)]
sysfs: fix /sys/module/*/holders after sysfs logic change
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.
Kay Sievers [Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:29:15 +0000 (17:29 +0100)]
Driver core: fix class glue dir cleanup logic
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>
Alan Stern [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:57:28 +0000 (11:57 -0500)]
Driver core: fix race in __device_release_driver
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>
Driver core: move the static kobject out of struct driver
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>
Driver core: move the driver specific module code into the driver core
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.
Driver: add driver_add_kobj for looney iseries_veth driver
The iseries driver wants to hang kobjects off of its driver, so, to
preserve backwards compatibility, we need to add a call to the driver
core to allow future changes to work properly.
Hopefully no one uses this function in the future and the iseries_veth
driver authors come to their senses so I can remove this hack...
Cc: Dave Larson <larson1@us.ibm.com> Cc: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Infiniband: make ipath driver use default driver groups.
Make the ipath driver use the new driver functions so that it does not
touch the sysfs portion of the driver structure.
We also remove the redundant symlink from the device back to the driver,
as it is already in the sysfs tree. Any userspace tools should be using
the standard symlink, not some driver specific one.
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> Cc: Bryan O'Sullivan <bryan.osullivan@qlogic.com> Cc: Arthur Jones <arthur.jones@qlogic.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The PCI bus should not be trying to declare its own attribute type.
Especially as this code could never ever be called because the driver
core overwrites the driver kobject type to be its own internal type.
Delete all of this code as it was never being used and is not correct.
Also update my copyright on the file while I'm touching things there.
struct bus_type is static everywhere in the kernel. This moves the
kobject in the structure out of it, and a bunch of other private only to
the driver core fields are now moved to a private structure. This lets
us dynamically create the backing kobject properly and gives us the
chance to be able to document to users exactly how to use the struct
bus_type as there are no fields they can improperly access.
Thanks to Kay for the build fixes on this patch.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This allows an easier way to get to the device klist associated with a
struct bus_type (you have three to choose from...) This will make it
easier to move these fields to be dynamic in a future patch.
The only user of this is the PCI core which horribly abuses this
interface to rearrange the order of the pci devices. This should be
done using the existing bus device walking functions, but that's left
for future patches.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This allows an easier way to get to the kset associated with a struct
bus_type (you have three to choose from...) This will make it easier to
move these fields to be dynamic in a future patch.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
driver core: remove owner field from struct bus_type
This isn't used by anything in the driver core, and by no one in the 204
different usages of it in the kernel tree. Remove this field so no one
gets any idea that it is needed to be used.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This code is really really really broken. So much so that it's almost
impossible to fix with a simple patch, so just comment out the offending
registration with the kobject core, and mark the driver as broken.
The problem is that the code is trying to register a "raw" struct
device, which is not allowed. struct device is only for use within the
driver model. This is being done to try to use the firmware layer which
wants a struct device. To properly fix this, use something easy, like a
platform device, which is a struct device and can be used for this kind
of thing.
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Kobject: change drivers/net/ibmveth.c to use kobject_init_and_add
Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of
the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized.
Cc: Dave Larson <larson1@us.ibm.com> Cc: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Kobject: change drivers/infiniband to use kobject_init_and_add
Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of
the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized.
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Cc: Sean Hefty <mshefty@ichips.intel.com> Cc: Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Kobject: change net/bridge to use kobject_create_and_add
The kobject in the bridge code is only used for registering with sysfs,
not for any lifespan rules. This patch changes it to be only a pointer
and use the simpler api for this kind of thing.
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
kobject: grab the kset reference in kobject_add, not kobject_init
kobject_init should not be grabing any references, but only initializing
the object. This patch fixes this, and makes the lock hold-time shorter
for when a kset is present in the kobject.
The current kernel tree has been audited to verify that this change
should be safe.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
rpadlpar pci hotplug driver was doing some pretty bad stuff with the
sysfs files. This cleans up the logic to be sane and gets rid of the
gratuitous kset that is not needed for a simple directory like this.
Note, this patch is not even build tested, let alone run-time tested.
Someone with access to this hardware and can test would be greatly
appreciated.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@gmail.com> Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically. We also
rename block_subsys to block_kset to catch all users of this symbol
with a build error instead of an easy-to-ignore build warning.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
There is no firmware "subsystem" it's just a directory in /sys that
other portions of the kernel want to hook into. So make it a kobject
not a kset to help alivate anyone who tries to do some odd kset-like
things with this.
Kay Sievers [Fri, 2 Nov 2007 12:47:53 +0000 (13:47 +0100)]
Driver Core: kill subsys_attribute and default sysfs ops
Remove the no longer needed subsys_attributes, they are all converted to
the more sensical kobj_attributes.
There is no longer a magic fallback in sysfs attribute operations, all
kobjects which create simple attributes need explicitely a ktype
assigned, which tells the core what was intended here.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
kset: convert parisc/pdc_stable.c to use kset_create
Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.
This makes the kobject attributes now work properly that I broke in the
previous patch.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Thibaut VARENE <varenet@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.
This makes the kobject attributes now work properly that I broke in the
previous patch.
Kay Sievers [Fri, 2 Nov 2007 12:47:53 +0000 (13:47 +0100)]
fix struct user_info export's sysfs interaction
Clean up the use of ksets and kobjects. Kobjects are instances of
objects (like struct user_info), ksets are collections of objects of a
similar type (like the uids directory containing the user_info directories).
So, use kobjects for the user_info directories, and a kset for the "uids"
directory.
On object cleanup, the final kobject_put() was missing.
Kay Sievers [Fri, 2 Nov 2007 12:47:53 +0000 (13:47 +0100)]
Driver Core: add kobj_attribute handling
Add kobj_sysfs_ops to replace subsys_sysfs_ops. There is no
need for special kset operations, we want to be able to use
simple attribute operations at any kobject, not only ksets.
The whole concept of any default sysfs attribute operations
will go away with the upcoming removal of subsys_sysfs_ops.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
kset: convert struct bus_device->drivers to use kset_create
Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.
Having 3 static kobjects in one structure is not only foolish, but ripe
for nasty race conditions if handled improperly. We also rename the
field to catch any potential users of it (not that there should be
outside of the driver core...)
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
kset: convert struct bus_device->devices to use kset_create
Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.
Having 3 static kobjects in one structure is not only foolish, but ripe
for nasty race conditions if handled improperly. We also rename the
field to catch any potential users of it (not that there should be
outside of the driver core...)
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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