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-rw-r--r--include/linux/kernfs.h8
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sysfs.h9
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kernfs.h b/include/linux/kernfs.h
index 30faf797c2c3..d4e01b358341 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernfs.h
@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ struct kernfs_open_file {
struct mutex mutex;
int event;
struct list_head list;
+ char *prealloc_buf;
size_t atomic_write_len;
bool mmapped;
@@ -214,6 +215,13 @@ struct kernfs_ops {
* larger ones are rejected with -E2BIG.
*/
size_t atomic_write_len;
+ /*
+ * "prealloc" causes a buffer to be allocated at open for
+ * all read/write requests. As ->seq_show uses seq_read()
+ * which does its own allocation, it is incompatible with
+ * ->prealloc. Provide ->read and ->write with ->prealloc.
+ */
+ bool prealloc;
ssize_t (*write)(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *buf, size_t bytes,
loff_t off);
diff --git a/include/linux/sysfs.h b/include/linux/sysfs.h
index f97d0dbb59fa..ddad16148bd6 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysfs.h
@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ struct attribute_group {
* for examples..
*/
+#define SYSFS_PREALLOC 010000
+
#define __ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store) { \
.attr = {.name = __stringify(_name), \
.mode = VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS(_mode) }, \
@@ -77,6 +79,13 @@ struct attribute_group {
.store = _store, \
}
+#define __ATTR_PREALLOC(_name, _mode, _show, _store) { \
+ .attr = {.name = __stringify(_name), \
+ .mode = SYSFS_PREALLOC | VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS(_mode) },\
+ .show = _show, \
+ .store = _store, \
+}
+
#define __ATTR_RO(_name) { \
.attr = { .name = __stringify(_name), .mode = S_IRUGO }, \
.show = _name##_show, \