kernel/linux.git/drivers/char/raw.c, branch linux-2.6.35.y

drivers: Push down BKL into various drivers

2010-05-17T03:27:41+00:00

These are the last remaining device drivers using the ->ioctl file operation in the drivers directory (except from v4l drivers). [fweisbec: drop i8k pushdown as it has been done from procfs pushdown branch already] Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

vfs: rename block_fsync() to blkdev_fsync()

2010-04-07T15:38:04+00:00

Requested by hch, for consistency now it is exported. Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Anton Blanchard Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jeff Moyer Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

raw: fsync method is now required

2010-04-07T15:38:04+00:00

Commit 148f948ba877f4d3cdef036b1ff6d9f68986706a (vfs: Introduce new helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode) broke the raw driver. We now call through generic_file_aio_write -> generic_write_sync -> vfs_fsync_range. vfs_fsync_range has: if (!fop || !fop->fsync) { ret = -EINVAL; goto out; } But drivers/char/raw.c doesn't set an fsync method. We have two options: fix it or remove the raw driver completely. I'm happy to do either, the fact this has been broken for so long suggests it is rarely used. The patch below adds an fsync method to the raw driver. My knowledge of the block layer is pretty sketchy so this could do with a once over. If we instead decide to remove the raw driver, this patch might still be useful as a backport to 2.6.33 and 2.6.32. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Jens Axboe Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer Tested-by: Jeff Moyer Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

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 Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

Driver-Core: extend devnode callbacks to provide permissions

2009-09-19T19:50:38+00:00

This allows subsytems to provide devtmpfs with non-default permissions for the device node. Instead of the default mode of 0600, null, zero, random, urandom, full, tty, ptmx now have a mode of 0666, which allows non-privileged processes to access standard device nodes in case no other userspace process applies the expected permissions. This also fixes a wrong assignment in pktcdvd and a checkpatch.pl complain. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vfs: Rename generic_file_aio_write_nolock

2009-09-14T15:08:15+00:00

generic_file_aio_write_nolock() is now used only by block devices and raw character device. Filesystems should use __generic_file_aio_write() in case generic_file_aio_write() doesn't suit them. So rename the function to blkdev_aio_write() and move it to fs/blockdev.c. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

Driver Core: raw: add nodename for raw devices

2009-06-16T04:30:26+00:00

This adds support to the raw driver to report the proper device name to userspace for the raw devices. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_size

2009-05-22T21:22:54+00:00

Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device. With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case. The sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain 512-bytes. Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size and the logical ditto. This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Add a missing unlock_kernel() in raw_open()

2009-03-27T16:59:09+00:00

Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

[PATCH] kill the rest of struct file propagation in block ioctls

2008-10-21T11:49:14+00:00

Now we can switch blkdev_ioctl() block_device/mode Signed-off-by: Al Viro