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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2014-02-03 23:03:01 +0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-02-08 03:42:41 +0400
commit6b0afc2a21726b2d6b6aa441af40cafaf5405cc8 (patch)
tree42db14d4525a9f7a248fda6bb56da7823bd86e12 /include/linux/device.h
parent81c173cb5e87fbb47ccd80630faefe39bbf68449 (diff)
downloadlinux-6b0afc2a21726b2d6b6aa441af40cafaf5405cc8.tar.xz
kernfs, sysfs, driver-core: implement kernfs_remove_self() and its wrappers
Sometimes it's necessary to implement a node which wants to delete nodes including itself. This isn't straightforward because of kernfs active reference. While a file operation is in progress, an active reference is held and kernfs_remove() waits for all such references to drain before completing. For a self-deleting node, this is a deadlock as kernfs_remove() ends up waiting for an active reference that itself is sitting on top of. This currently is worked around in the sysfs layer using sysfs_schedule_callback() which makes such removals asynchronous. While it works, it's rather cumbersome and inherently breaks synchronicity of the operation - the file operation which triggered the operation may complete before the removal is finished (or even started) and the removal may fail asynchronously. If a removal operation is immmediately followed by another operation which expects the specific name to be available (e.g. removal followed by rename onto the same name), there's no way to make the latter operation reliable. The thing is there's no inherent reason for this to be asynchrnous. All that's necessary to do this synchronous is a dedicated operation which drops its own active ref and deactivates self. This patch implements kernfs_remove_self() and its wrappers in sysfs and driver core. kernfs_remove_self() is to be called from one of the file operations, drops the active ref the task is holding, removes the self node, and restores active ref to the dead node so that the ref is balanced afterwards. __kernfs_remove() is updated so that it takes an early exit if the target node is already fully removed so that the active ref restored by kernfs_remove_self() after removal doesn't confuse the deactivation path. This makes implementing self-deleting nodes very easy. The normal removal path doesn't even need to be changed to use kernfs_remove_self() for the self-deleting node. The method can invoke kernfs_remove_self() on itself before proceeding the normal removal path. kernfs_remove() invoked on the node by the normal deletion path will simply be ignored. This will replace sysfs_schedule_callback(). A subtle feature of sysfs_schedule_callback() is that it collapses multiple invocations - even if multiple removals are triggered, the removal callback is run only once. An equivalent effect can be achieved by testing the return value of kernfs_remove_self() - only the one which gets %true return value should proceed with actual deletion. All other instances of kernfs_remove_self() will wait till the enclosing kernfs operation which invoked the winning instance of kernfs_remove_self() finishes and then return %false. This trivially makes all users of kernfs_remove_self() automatically show correct synchronous behavior even when there are multiple concurrent operations - all "echo 1 > delete" instances will finish only after the whole operation is completed by one of the instances. Note that manipulation of active ref is implemented in separate public functions - kernfs_[un]break_active_protection(). kernfs_remove_self() is the only user at the moment but this will be used to cater to more complex cases. v2: For !CONFIG_SYSFS, dummy version kernfs_remove_self() was missing and sysfs_remove_file_self() had incorrect return type. Fix it. Reported by kbuild test bot. v3: kernfs_[un]break_active_protection() separated out from kernfs_remove_self() and exposed as public API. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index 952b01033c32..1ff3f1697513 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -560,6 +560,8 @@ extern int device_create_file(struct device *device,
const struct device_attribute *entry);
extern void device_remove_file(struct device *dev,
const struct device_attribute *attr);
+extern bool device_remove_file_self(struct device *dev,
+ const struct device_attribute *attr);
extern int __must_check device_create_bin_file(struct device *dev,
const struct bin_attribute *attr);
extern void device_remove_bin_file(struct device *dev,