sysfs: Support sysfs_notify from atomic context with new sysfs_notify_dirent

Support sysfs_notify from atomic context with new sysfs_notify_dirent

sysfs_notify currently takes sysfs_mutex.
This means that it cannot be called in atomic context.
sysfs_mutex  is sometimes held over a malloc (sysfs_rename_dir)
so it can block on low memory.

In md I want to be able to notify on a sysfs attribute from
atomic context, and I don't want to block on low memory because I
could be in the writeout path for freeing memory.

So:
 - export the "sysfs_dirent" structure along with sysfs_get, sysfs_put
   and sysfs_get_dirent so I can get the sysfs_dirent that I want to
   notify on and hold it in an md structure.
 - split sysfs_notify_dirent out of sysfs_notify so the sysfs_dirent
   can be notified on with no blocking (just a spinlock).

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This commit is contained in:
Neil Brown 2008-07-16 08:58:04 +10:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent ec748fa9ed
commit f1282c844e
5 changed files with 62 additions and 18 deletions

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@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ struct sysfs_ops {
ssize_t (*store)(struct kobject *,struct attribute *,const char *, size_t);
};
struct sysfs_dirent;
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
int sysfs_schedule_callback(struct kobject *kobj, void (*func)(void *),
@ -118,10 +120,13 @@ void sysfs_remove_file_from_group(struct kobject *kobj,
const struct attribute *attr, const char *group);
void sysfs_notify(struct kobject *kobj, char *dir, char *attr);
void sysfs_notify_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent *sd);
struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_get_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd,
const unsigned char *name);
struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_get(struct sysfs_dirent *sd);
void sysfs_put(struct sysfs_dirent *sd);
void sysfs_printk_last_file(void);
extern int __must_check sysfs_init(void);
int __must_check sysfs_init(void);
#else /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
@ -227,6 +232,22 @@ static inline void sysfs_remove_file_from_group(struct kobject *kobj,
static inline void sysfs_notify(struct kobject *kobj, char *dir, char *attr)
{
}
static inline void sysfs_notify_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
{
}
static inline
struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_get_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd,
const unsigned char *name)
{
return NULL;
}
static inline struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_get(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
{
return NULL;
}
static inline void sysfs_put(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
{
}
static inline int __must_check sysfs_init(void)
{