kernel/linux.git/include/linux/kobject.h, branch v2.6.34

Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type

2010-03-08T01:04:49+00:00

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 Acked-by: David Teigland Acked-by: Matt Domsch Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski Acked-by: Hans J. Koch Acked-by: Pekka Enberg Acked-by: Jens Axboe Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kobject: Constify struct kset_uevent_ops

2010-03-08T01:04:49+00:00

Constify struct kset_uevent_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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver core: implement uevent suppress in kobject

2009-03-24T23:38:26+00:00

This patch implements uevent suppress in kobject and removes it from struct device, based on the following ideas: 1,Uevent sending should be one attribute of kobject, so suppressing it in kobject layer is more natural than in device layer. By this way, we can do it for other objects embedded with kobject. 2,It may save several bytes for each instance of struct device.(On my omap3(32bit ARM) based box, can save 8bytes per device object) This patch also introduces dev_set|get_uevent_suppress() helpers to set and query uevent_suppress attribute in case to help kobject as private part of struct device in future. [This version is against the latest driver-core patch set of Greg,please ignore the last version.] Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array

2009-03-24T23:38:23+00:00

Now that all users of bus_id is gone, we can remove it from struct device. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: create /sys/kernel/mm

2008-07-24T17:47:17+00:00

Add a kobject to create /sys/kernel/mm when sysfs is mounted. The kobject will exist regardless. This will allow for the hugepage related sysfs directories to exist under the mm "subsystem" directory. Add an ABI file appropriately. [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix build] Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kobject: reorder kobject to save space on 64 bit builds

2008-07-22T04:54:56+00:00

reorder kobject to save space on 64 bit builds. shrinks from 72 to 64 bytes & moves allocated kobject to a smaller slab. Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: remove KOBJ_NAME_LEN define

2008-07-22T04:54:52+00:00

Kobjects do not have a limit in name size since a while, so stop pretending that they do. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Remove "#ifdef KERNEL" checks from unexported headers

2008-04-30T15:29:54+00:00

Remove the "#ifdef __KERNEL__" tests from unexported header files in linux/include whose entire contents are wrapped in that preprocessor test. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Kobject: fix coding style issues in kobject.h

2008-01-25T05:27:06+00:00

Finally clean up the odd spaces and other mess in kobject.h Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver core: change sysdev classes to use dynamic kobject names

2008-01-25T04:40:40+00:00

All kobjects require a dynamically allocated name now. We no longer need to keep track if the name is statically assigned, we can just unconditionally free() all kobject names on cleanup. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman