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2012-01-06Merge branch 'pstore' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux * 'pstore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux: pstore: gracefully handle NULL pstore_info functions pstore: pass reason to backend write callback
2011-11-28efivars: add missing parameter to efi_pstore_read()Christoph Fritz
In the case where CONFIG_PSTORE=n, the function efi_pstore_read() doesn't have the correct list of parameters. This patch provides a definition of efi_pstore_read() with 'char **buf' added to fix this warning: "drivers/firmware/efivars.c:609: warning: initialization from". problem introduced in commit f6f8285132907757ef84ef8dae0a1244b8cde6ac Signed-off-by: Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-11-17pstore: pass reason to backend write callbackKees Cook
This allows a backend to filter on the dmesg reason as well as the pstore reason. When ramoops is switched to pstore, this is needed since it has no interest in storing non-crash dmesg details. Drop pstore_write() as it has no users, and handling the "reason" here has no obviously correct value. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-11-17pstore: pass allocated memory region back to callerKees Cook
The buf_lock cannot be held while populating the inodes, so make the backend pass forward an allocated and filled buffer instead. This solves the following backtrace. The effect is that "buf" is only ever used to notify the backends that something was written to it, and shouldn't be used in the read path. To replace the buf_lock during the read path, isolate the open/read/close loop with a separate mutex to maintain serialized access to the backend. Note that is is up to the pstore backend to cope if the (*write)() path is called in the middle of the read path. [ 59.691019] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at .../mm/slub.c:847 [ 59.691019] in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 1819, name: mount [ 59.691019] Pid: 1819, comm: mount Not tainted 3.0.8 #1 [ 59.691019] Call Trace: [ 59.691019] [<810252d5>] __might_sleep+0xc3/0xca [ 59.691019] [<810a26e6>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x32/0xf3 [ 59.691019] [<810b53ac>] ? __d_lookup_rcu+0x6f/0xf4 [ 59.691019] [<810b68b1>] alloc_inode+0x2a/0x64 [ 59.691019] [<810b6903>] new_inode+0x18/0x43 [ 59.691019] [<81142447>] pstore_get_inode.isra.1+0x11/0x98 [ 59.691019] [<81142623>] pstore_mkfile+0xae/0x26f [ 59.691019] [<810a2a66>] ? kmem_cache_free+0x19/0xb1 [ 59.691019] [<8116c821>] ? ida_get_new_above+0x140/0x158 [ 59.691019] [<811708ea>] ? __init_rwsem+0x1e/0x2c [ 59.691019] [<810b67e8>] ? inode_init_always+0x111/0x1b0 [ 59.691019] [<8102127e>] ? should_resched+0xd/0x27 [ 59.691019] [<8137977f>] ? _cond_resched+0xd/0x21 [ 59.691019] [<81142abf>] pstore_get_records+0x52/0xa7 [ 59.691019] [<8114254b>] pstore_fill_super+0x7d/0x91 [ 59.691019] [<810a7ff5>] mount_single+0x46/0x82 [ 59.691019] [<8114231a>] pstore_mount+0x15/0x17 [ 59.691019] [<811424ce>] ? pstore_get_inode.isra.1+0x98/0x98 [ 59.691019] [<810a8199>] mount_fs+0x5a/0x12d [ 59.691019] [<810b9174>] ? alloc_vfsmnt+0xa4/0x14a [ 59.691019] [<810b9474>] vfs_kern_mount+0x4f/0x7d [ 59.691019] [<810b9d7e>] do_kern_mount+0x34/0xb2 [ 59.691019] [<810bb15f>] do_mount+0x5fc/0x64a [ 59.691019] [<810912fb>] ? strndup_user+0x2e/0x3f [ 59.691019] [<810bb3cb>] sys_mount+0x66/0x99 [ 59.691019] [<8137b537>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26 Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-10-12pstore: make pstore write function return normal success/fail valueChen Gong
Currently pstore write interface employs record id as return value, but it is not enough because it can't tell caller if the write operation is successful. Pass the record id back via an argument pointer and return zero for success, non-zero for failure. Signed-off-by: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-08-16pstore: change mutex locking to spin_locksDon Zickus
pstore was using mutex locking to protect read/write access to the backend plug-ins. This causes problems when pstore is executed in an NMI context through panic() -> kmsg_dump(). This patch changes the mutex to a spin_lock_irqsave then also checks to see if we are in an NMI context. If we are in an NMI and can't get the lock, just print a message stating that and blow by the locking. All this is probably a hack around the bigger locking problem but it solves my current situation of trying to sleep in an NMI context. Tested by loading the lkdtm module and executing a HARDLOCKUP which will cause the machine to panic inside the nmi handler. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-08-02efivars: fix warnings when CONFIG_PSTORE=nTony Luck
drivers/firmware/efivars.c:161: warning: ‘utf16_strlen’ defined but not used utf16_strlen() is only used inside CONFIG_PSTORE - make this "static inline" to shut the compiler up [thanks to hpa for the suggestion]. drivers/firmware/efivars.c:602: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type Between v1 and v2 of this patch series we decided to make the "part" number unsigned - but missed fixing the stub version of efi_pstore_write() Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-07-22efivars: Introduce PSTORE_EFI_ATTRIBUTESMike Waychison
Consolidate the attributes listed for pstore operations in one place, PSTORE_EFI_ATTRIBUTES. Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-07-22efivars: Use string functions in pstore_writeMike Waychison
Instead of open-coding the string operations for comparing the prefix of the variable names, use the provided utf16_* string functions. This patch also changes the calls to efi.set_variable to efivars->ops->set_variable so that the right function gets called in the case of gsmi (which doesn't have a valid efi structure). As well, make sure that we only consider variables with the right vendor string. Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-07-22efivars: introduce utf16_strncmpMike Waychison
Introduce utf16_strncmp which is used in the next patch. Semantics should be the same as the strncmp C function. Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-07-22efivars: String functionsMike Waychison
Fix the string functions in the efivars driver to be called utf16_* instead of utf8_* as the encoding is utf16, not utf8. As well, rename utf16_strlen to utf16_strnlen as it takes a maxlength argument and the name should be consistent with the standard C function names. utf16_strlen is still provided for convenience in a subsequent patch. Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-07-22efi: Add support for using efivars as a pstore backendMatthew Garrett
EFI provides an area of nonvolatile storage managed by the firmware. We can use this as a pstore backend to maintain copies of oopses, aiding diagnosis. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2011-05-23Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits) b43: fix comment typo reqest -> request Haavard Skinnemoen has left Atmel cris: typo in mach-fs Makefile Kconfig: fix copy/paste-ism for dell-wmi-aio driver doc: timers-howto: fix a typo ("unsgined") perf: Only include annotate.h once in tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/annotate.c md, raid5: Fix spelling error in comment ('Ofcourse' --> 'Of course'). treewide: fix a few typos in comments regulator: change debug statement be consistent with the style of the rest Revert "arm: mach-u300/gpio: Fix mem_region resource size miscalculations" audit: acquire creds selectively to reduce atomic op overhead rtlwifi: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal treewide: cleanup continuations and remove logging message whitespace ath9k_hw: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal include/linux/leds-regulator.h: fix syntax in example code tty: fix typo in descripton of tty_termios_encode_baud_rate xtensa: remove obsolete BKL kernel option from defconfig m68k: fix comment typo 'occcured' arch:Kconfig.locks Remove unused config option. treewide: remove extra semicolons ...
2011-05-10treewide: fix a few typos in commentsJustin P. Mattock
- kenrel -> kernel - whetehr -> whether - ttt -> tt - sss -> ss Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-05-06efivars: prevent oops on unload when efi is not enabledRandy Dunlap
efivars_exit() should check for efi_enabled and not undo allocations when efi is not enabled. Otherwise there is an Oops during module unload: calling efivars_init+0x0/0x1000 [efivars] @ 2810 EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17 initcall efivars_init+0x0/0x1000 [efivars] returned 0 after 5120 usecs Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC last sysfs file: /sys/module/firmware_class/initstate CPU 1 Modules linked in: efivars(-) af_packet tun nfsd lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc ipt_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 iptable_filter ip_tables ip6t_REJECT xt_tcpudp nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables x_tables ipv6 cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq freq_table mperf binfmt_misc dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_multipath scsi_dh dm_mod snd_hda_codec_analog snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep mousedev snd_seq joydev snd_seq_device mac_hid evdev snd_pcm usbkbd usbmouse usbhid snd_timer hid tg3 snd sr_mod pcspkr rtc_cmos soundcore cdrom iTCO_wdt processor sg dcdbas i2c_i801 rtc_core iTCO_vendor_support intel_agp snd_page_alloc thermal_sys rtc_lib intel_gtt 8250_pnp button hwmon unix ide_pci_generic ide_core ata_generic pata_acpi ata_piix sd_mod crc_t10dif ext3 jbd mbcache uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ssb mmc_core pcmcia pcmcia_core firmware_class ehci_hcd usbcore [last unloaded: dell_rbu] Pid: 2812, comm: rmmod Not tainted 2.6.39-rc6 #1 Dell Inc. OptiPlex 745 /0TY565 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa06a17f6>] [<ffffffffa06a17f6>] unregister_efivars+0x28/0x12c [efivars] RSP: 0018:ffff88005eedde98 EFLAGS: 00010283 RAX: ffffffffa06a23fc RBX: ffffffffa06a44c0 RCX: ffff88007c227a50 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000055ac13db78 RDI: ffffffffa06a44c0 RBP: ffff88005eeddec8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88005eeddd78 R10: ffffffffa06a4220 R11: ffff88005eeddd78 R12: fffffffffffff7d0 R13: 00007fff5a3aaec0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffffa06a4508 FS: 00007fa8dcc4a6f0(0000) GS:ffff88007c200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000005d148000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process rmmod (pid: 2812, threadinfo ffff88005eedc000, task ffff88006754b000) Stack: ffff88005eeddec8 ffffffffa06a4220 0000000000000000 00007fff5a3aaec0 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 ffff88005eedded8 ffffffffa06a2418 ffff88005eeddf78 ffffffff810d3598 ffffffffa06a4220 0000000000000880 Call Trace: [<ffffffffa06a2418>] efivars_exit+0x1c/0xc04 [efivars] [<ffffffff810d3598>] sys_delete_module+0x2d6/0x368 [<ffffffff812d1db9>] ? lockdep_sys_exit_thunk+0x35/0x67 [<ffffffff810fcba1>] ? audit_syscall_entry+0x172/0x1a5 [<ffffffff81575082>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Code: 5c c9 c3 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 83 ec 08 0f 1f 44 00 00 4c 8b 67 48 48 89 fb 4c 8d 7f 48 49 81 ec 30 08 00 00 <4d> 8b ac 24 30 08 00 00 49 81 ed 30 08 00 00 eb 59 48 89 df 48 RIP [<ffffffffa06a17f6>] unregister_efivars+0x28/0x12c [efivars] RSP <ffff88005eedde98> CR2: 0000000000000000 ---[ end trace aa99b99090f70baa ]--- Matt apparently removed such a check in 2004 (with no reason given): * 17 May 2004 - Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> * remove check for efi_enabled in exit but there have been several changes since then. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Cc: <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-19efivars: handle errors from register_efivars()Dan Carpenter
We should unwind and return an error if register_efivars() fails. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-19efivars: memory leak on error in create_efivars_bin_attributes()Dan Carpenter
This is a cut and paste bug. We intended to free ->del_var and ->new_var but we only free ->new_var. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14efivars: Expose efivars functionality to external drivers.Mike Waychison
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>, Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14efivars: Parameterize operations.Mike Waychison
Instead of letting efivars access struct efi directly when dealing with variables, use an operations structure. This allows a later change to reuse the efivars logic without having to pretend to support everything in struct efi. Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>, Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14efivars: Split out variable registrationMike Waychison
In anticipation of re-using the variable facilities in efivars from elsewhere, split out the registration and unregistration of struct efivars from the rest of the EFI specific sysfs code. Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>, Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14efivars: parameterize efivarsMike Waychison
Now that we all global variable state is encapsulated by struct efivars, parameterize all functions to the efivars local to the control flow rather than at file scope. We do this by removing the variable "efivars" at file scope and move its storage down to the end of the file. Variables get at efivars by storing the efivars pointer within each efivar_entry. The "new_var" and "del_var" binary attribute files get at the efivars through the private pointer. Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>, Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14efivars: Make efivars bin_attributes dynamicMike Waychison
In preparation for encapsulating efivars, we need to have the bin_attributes be dynamically allocated so that we can use their ->private fields to get back to the struct efivars structure. Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>, Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14efivars: move efivars globals into struct efivarsMike Waychison
In preparation for abstracting out efivars to be usable by other similar variable services, move the global lock, list and kset into a structure. Later patches will change the scope of 'efivars' and have it be passed by function argument. Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>, Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21sysfs: add struct file* to bin_attr callbacksChris Wright
This allows bin_attr->read,write,mmap callbacks to check file specific data (such as inode owner) as part of any privilege validation. Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-07Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_typeEmese Revfy
Constify struct sysfs_ops. This is part of the ops structure constification effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al. Benefits of this constification: * prevents modification of data that is shared (referenced) by many other structure instances at runtime * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional) modification attempts on archs that enforce read-only kernel data at runtime * potentially better optimized code as the compiler can assume that the const data cannot be changed * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata and therefore exclude them from false sharing Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Kobject: convert drivers/* from kobject_unregister() to kobject_put()Greg Kroah-Hartman
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>
2008-01-24Kobject: change drivers/firmware/efivars.c to use kobject_init_and_addGreg Kroah-Hartman
Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized. Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kobject: convert efivars to use kobject_createGreg Kroah-Hartman
Using a kset for this simple directory is an overkill. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Cc: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24firmware: change firmware_kset to firmware_kobjGreg Kroah-Hartman
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. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kset: convert efivars to use kset_create for the vars sub-subsystem.Greg Kroah-Hartman
Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Cc: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kset: convert efivars to use kset_create for the efi subsystem.Greg Kroah-Hartman
Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Cc: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kobject: convert efivars to kobj_attr interfaceGreg Kroah-Hartman
This cleans up a lot of code and gets rid of a unneeded macro, and gets us one step closer to deleting the deprecated subsys_attr code. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Cc: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24efivars: make new_var and del_var binary sysfs filesGreg Kroah-Hartman
These files should not be "normal" sysfs files as they really are binary ones. This patch makes them binary files and saves code in doing so. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Tested-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Cc: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kobject: remove struct kobj_type from struct ksetGreg Kroah-Hartman
We don't need a "default" ktype for a kset. We should set this explicitly every time for each kset. This change is needed so that we can make ksets dynamic, and cleans up one of the odd, undocumented assumption that the kset/kobject/ktype model has. This patch is based on a lot of help from Kay Sievers. Nasty bug in the block code was found by Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: rename ktype_edd and ktype_efivarGreg Kroah-Hartman
This makes it a bit more sane when trying to figure out how to clean up the ktype mess. Based on a larger patch from Kay Sievers Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->ownerTejun Heo
sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game. After deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper, so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners. Note that often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to accessing removed modules. This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner. Note that with this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the backing module from being unloaded. For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the following message. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293 (tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to merge things properly.) Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-05-02remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer neededGreg Kroah-Hartman
We need to work on cleaning up the relationship between kobjects, ksets and ktypes. The removal of 'struct subsystem' is the first step of this, especially as it is not really needed at all. Thanks to Kay for fixing the bugs in this patch. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-01-26[PATCH] Fix race in efi variable delete codeMatt Domsch
Fix race when deleting an EFI variable and issuing another EFI command on the same variable. The removal of the variable from the efivars_list should be done in efivar_delete and not delayed until the kobject release. Furthermore, remove the item from the list at module unload time, and use list_for_each_entry_safe() rather than list_for_each_safe() for readability. Tested on ia64. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] firmware/efivars: handle errorJeff Garzik
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-26[PATCH] EFI: keep physical table addresses in efi structureBjorn Helgaas
Almost all users of the table addresses from the EFI system table want physical addresses. So rather than doing the pa->va->pa conversion, just keep physical addresses in struct efi. This fixes a DMI bug: the efi structure contained the physical SMBIOS address on x86 but the virtual address on ia64, so dmi_scan_machine() used ioremap() on a virtual address on ia64. This is essentially the same as an earlier patch by Matt Tolentino: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112130292316281&w=2 except that this changes all table addresses, not just ACPI addresses. Matt's original patch was backed out because it caused MCAs on HP sx1000 systems. That problem is resolved by the ioremap() attribute checking added for ia64. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Cc: "Tolentino, Matthew E" <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11[PATCH] move capable() to capability.hRandy.Dunlap
- Move capable() from sched.h to capability.h; - Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used (in include/, block/, ipc/, kernel/, a few drivers/, mm/, security/, & sound/; many more drivers/ to go) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] drivers/firmware: kmalloc + memset -> kzalloc conversionDeepak Saxena
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25[PATCH] kfree cleanups for drivers/firmware/Jesper Juhl
Here's a patch with kfree() cleanups for drivers/firmware/efivars.c Patch removes redundant NULL checks before kfree and also makes a small whitespace cleanup - moves two statements on same line to separate lines. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-20[PATCH] sysfs: (rest) if show/store is missing return -EIODmitry Torokhov
sysfs: fix the rest of the kernel so if an attribute doesn't implement show or store method read/write will return -EIO instead of 0 or -EINVAL or -EPERM. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!