From f1282c844e86db5a041afa41335b5f9eea6cec0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Brown Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:58:04 +1000 Subject: sysfs: Support sysfs_notify from atomic context with new sysfs_notify_dirent Support sysfs_notify from atomic context with new sysfs_notify_dirent sysfs_notify currently takes sysfs_mutex. This means that it cannot be called in atomic context. sysfs_mutex is sometimes held over a malloc (sysfs_rename_dir) so it can block on low memory. In md I want to be able to notify on a sysfs attribute from atomic context, and I don't want to block on low memory because I could be in the writeout path for freeing memory. So: - export the "sysfs_dirent" structure along with sysfs_get, sysfs_put and sysfs_get_dirent so I can get the sysfs_dirent that I want to notify on and hold it in an md structure. - split sysfs_notify_dirent out of sysfs_notify so the sysfs_dirent can be notified on with no blocking (just a spinlock). Signed-off-by: Neil Brown Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/sysfs/dir.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'fs/sysfs/dir.c') diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c index aedaeba82ae..53bc7fc31af 100644 --- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c @@ -636,6 +636,7 @@ struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_get_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd, return sd; } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_get_dirent); static int create_dir(struct kobject *kobj, struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd, const char *name, struct sysfs_dirent **p_sd) -- cgit v1.2.3