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author | Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> | 2007-09-20 07:05:12 (GMT) |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2007-10-12 21:51:11 (GMT) |
commit | a4e8b912541d5372ae049a3b7c1979968e52c40b (patch) | |
tree | a95937748b6216f914abe55ed47c2627e7856bf7 /Documentation | |
parent | 85a4ffad3de77177591f7c2c18c26c3c8dd28bff (diff) | |
download | linux-fsl-qoriq-a4e8b912541d5372ae049a3b7c1979968e52c40b.tar.xz |
sysfs: move sysfs file poll implementation to sysfs_open_dirent
Sysfs file poll implementation is scattered over sysfs and kobject.
Event numbering is done in sysfs_dirent but wait itself is done on
kobject. This not only unecessarily bloats both kobject and
sysfs_dirent but is also buggy - if a sysfs_dirent is removed while
there still are pollers, the associaton betwen the kobject and
sysfs_dirent breaks and kobject may be freed with the pollers still
sleeping on it.
This patch moves whole poll implementation into sysfs_open_dirent.
Each time a sysfs_open_dirent is created, event number restarts from 1
and pollers sleep on sysfs_open_dirent. As event sequence number is
meaningless without any open file and pollers should have open file
and thus sysfs_open_dirent, this ephemeral event counting works and is
a saner implementation.
This patch fixes the dnagling sleepers bug and reduces the sizes of
kobject and sysfs_dirent by one pointer.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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