31 Aug, 2016
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Many modules call misc_register and misc_deregister in its module init
and exit methods without any additional code. This ends up being
boilerplate. This patch adds helper macro module_misc_device(), that
replaces module_init()/ module_exit() with template functions.This patch also converts drivers to use new macro.
Change since v1:
Add device.h include in miscdevice.h as module_driver macro was not
available from other include files in some architectures.Signed-off-by: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
28 Oct, 2015
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Debugging input devices, specifically laptop touchpads, can be tricky
without having the physical device handy. Here we try to remedy that
with userio. This module allows an application to connect to a character
device provided by the kernel, and emulate any serio device. In
combination with userspace programs that can record PS/2 devices and
replay them through the /dev/userio device, this allows developers to
debug driver issues on the PS/2 level with devices simply by requesting
a recording from the user experiencing the issue without having to have
the physical hardware in front of them.Signed-off-by: Stephen Chandler Paul
Reviewed-by: David Herrmann
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov
06 Aug, 2015
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With well over 200+ users of this api, there are a mere 12 users that
actually checked the return value of this function. And all of them
really didn't do anything with that information as the system or module
was shutting down no matter what.So stop pretending like it matters, and just return void from
misc_deregister(). If something goes wrong in the call, you will get a
WARNING splat in the syslog so you know how to fix up your driver.
Other than that, there's nothing that can go wrong.Cc: Alasdair Kergon
Cc: Neil Brown
Cc: Oleg Drokin
Cc: Andreas Dilger
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin"
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck
Cc: Christine Caulfield
Cc: David Teigland
Cc: Mark Fasheh
Acked-by: Joel Becker
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
25 Mar, 2015
1 commit
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Add groups field to struct miscdevice for passing the attribute groups
at device creation. In this way, the driver can avoid the manual call
of device_create_file() after the device registration, which is
basically a racy operation, in addition to the reduction of manual
device_remove_file() calls.Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
28 May, 2014
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Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
03 Apr, 2014
1 commit
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
"Here is my initial pull request for the networking subsystem during
this merge window:1) Support for ESN in AH (RFC 4302) from Fan Du.
2) Add full kernel doc for ethtool command structures, from Ben
Hutchings.3) Add BCM7xxx PHY driver, from Florian Fainelli.
4) Export computed TCP rate information in netlink socket dumps, from
Eric Dumazet.5) Allow IPSEC SA to be dumped partially using a filter, from Nicolas
Dichtel.6) Convert many drivers to pci_enable_msix_range(), from Alexander
Gordeev.7) Record SKB timestamps more efficiently, from Eric Dumazet.
8) Switch to microsecond resolution for TCP round trip times, also
from Eric Dumazet.9) Clean up and fix 6lowpan fragmentation handling by making use of
the existing inet_frag api for it's implementation.10) Add TX grant mapping to xen-netback driver, from Zoltan Kiss.
11) Auto size SKB lengths when composing netlink messages based upon
past message sizes used, from Eric Dumazet.12) qdisc dumps can take a long time, add a cond_resched(), From Eric
Dumazet.13) Sanitize netpoll core and drivers wrt. SKB handling semantics.
Get rid of never-used-in-tree netpoll RX handling. From Eric W
Biederman.14) Support inter-address-family and namespace changing in VTI tunnel
driver(s). From Steffen Klassert.15) Add Altera TSE driver, from Vince Bridgers.
16) Optimizing csum_replace2() so that it doesn't adjust the checksum
by checksumming the entire header, from Eric Dumazet.17) Expand BPF internal implementation for faster interpreting, more
direct translations into JIT'd code, and much cleaner uses of BPF
filtering in non-socket ocntexts. From Daniel Borkmann and Alexei
Starovoitov"* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1976 commits)
netpoll: Use skb_irq_freeable to make zap_completion_queue safe.
net: Add a test to see if a skb is freeable in irq context
qlcnic: Fix build failure due to undefined reference to `vxlan_get_rx_port'
net: ptp: move PTP classifier in its own file
net: sxgbe: make "core_ops" static
net: sxgbe: fix logical vs bitwise operation
net: sxgbe: sxgbe_mdio_register() frees the bus
Call efx_set_channels() before efx->type->dimension_resources()
xen-netback: disable rogue vif in kthread context
net/mlx4: Set proper build dependancy with vxlan
be2net: fix build dependency on VxLAN
mac802154: make csma/cca parameters per-wpan
mac802154: allow only one WPAN to be up at any given time
net: filter: minor: fix kdoc in __sk_run_filter
netlink: don't compare the nul-termination in nla_strcmp
can: c_can: Avoid led toggling for every packet.
can: c_can: Simplify TX interrupt cleanup
can: c_can: Store dlc private
can: c_can: Reduce register access
can: c_can: Make the code readable
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19 Feb, 2014
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Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi
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Commit bfacbb9 (Bluetooth: Use devname:vhci module alias for virtual HCI
driver) added the module alias to hci_vhci module so it's possible to
create the /dev/vhci node. However creating an alias without
specifying the minor doesn't allow us to create the node ahead,
triggerring module auto-load when it's first accessed.Starting with depmod from kmod 16 we started to warn if there's a
devname alias without specifying the major and minor.Let's do the same done for uhid, kvm, fuse and others, specifying a
fixed minor. In systems with systemd as the init the following will
happen: on early boot systemd will call "kmod static-nodes" to read
/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.devname and then create the nodes. When
first accessed these "dead" nodes will trigger the module loading.Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann
20 Dec, 2013
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VFIO currently allocates it's own dynamic chardev range, reserving the
first minor for the control part of the interface (/dev/vfio/vfio) and
the remainder for VFIO groups (/dev/vfio/$GROUP). This works, but it
doesn't support auto loading. For instance when libvirt checks for
VFIO support it looks for /dev/vfio/vfio, which currently doesn't
exist unless the vfio module is loaded. By converting the control
device to a misc driver and reserving a static minor, we can enable
auto loading.Reserving the minor is a prerequist to that conversion. Minor 196
is unused by anything currently in the kernel.Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
13 Nov, 2013
1 commit
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Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi:
"This adds a ->writepage() implementation to fuse, improving mmaped
writeout and paving the way for buffered writeback.And there's a patch to add a fix minor number for /dev/cuse, similarly
to /dev/fuse"* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
fuse: writepages: protect secondary requests from fuse file release
fuse: writepages: update bdi writeout when deleting secondary request
fuse: writepages: crop secondary requests
fuse: writepages: roll back changes if request not found
cuse: add fix minor number to /dev/cuse
fuse: writepage: skip already in flight
fuse: writepages: handle same page rewrites
fuse: writepages: fix aggregation
fuse: fix race in fuse_writepages()
fuse: Implement writepages callback
fuse: don't BUG on no write file
fuse: lock page in mkwrite
fuse: Prepare to handle multiple pages in writeback
fuse: Getting file for writeback helper
01 Oct, 2013
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This allows udev (or more recently systemd-tmpfiles) to create /dev/cuse on
boot, in the same way as /dev/fuse is currently created, and the corresponding
module to be loaded on first access.The corresponding functionalty was introduced for fuse in commit 578454f.
Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen
Cc: Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi
26 Sep, 2013
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udev has this nice feature of creating "dead" /dev/ device-nodes if
it finds a devnode: modalias. Once the node is accessed, the kernel
automatically loads the module that provides the node. However, this
requires udev to know the major:minor code to use for the node. This
feature was introduced by:commit 578454ff7eab61d13a26b568f99a89a2c9edc881
Author: Kay Sievers
Date: Thu May 20 18:07:20 2010 +0200driver core: add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loading
However, uhid uses dynamic minor numbers so this doesn't actually work. We
need to load uhid to know which minor it's going to use.Hence, allocate a static minor (just like uinput does) and we're good
to go.Reported-by: Tom Gundersen
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
01 Dec, 2012
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Signed-off-by: Sreekanth Reddy
Reviewed-by: Nagalakshmi Nandigama
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley
20 Jul, 2012
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When MCA error occurs, it would be handled by Xen hypervisor first,
and then the error information would be sent to initial domain for logging.This patch gets error information from Xen hypervisor and convert
Xen format error into Linux format mcelog. This logic is basically
self-contained, not touching other kernel components.By using tools like mcelog tool users could read specific error information,
like what they did under native Linux.To test follow directions outlined in Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt
Acked-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov
Signed-off-by: Ke, Liping
Signed-off-by: Jiang, Yunhong
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Signed-off-by: Liu, Jinsong
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
14 Jan, 2012
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By adding some module aliases, programs (or users) won't have to explicitly
call modprobe. Vhost-net will always be available if built into the kernel.
It does require assigning a permanent minor number for depmod to work.Also:
- use C99 style initialization.
- add missing entry in documentation for loop-controlSigned-off-by: Stephen Hemminger
Acked-By: Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
04 Jan, 2012
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
01 Nov, 2011
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By removing the implicit presence of module.h from this file, we
will see things like:In file included from fs/dlm/user.c:9:
include/linux/miscdevice.h:50: error: field ‘list’ has incomplete type
include/linux/miscdevice.h:54: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘mode_t’Call out lists.h and types.h for inclusion to fix each of the
above respectively.Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker
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This file has a define MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV which in turn will
use the MODULE_ALIAS define, but only if the former is explicitly
used by modular device driver code (and such code should be
already including module.h).Delete the include, since module.h is such a giant thing that we
don't want it implicitly sneaking into compiles where it isn't
specifically required.Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker
01 Aug, 2011
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Loop devices today have a fixed pre-allocated number of usually 8.
The number can only be changed at module init time. To find a free
device to use, /dev/loop%i needs to be scanned, and all devices need
to be opened until a free one is possibly found.This adds a new /dev/loop-control device node, that allows to
dynamically find or allocate a free device, and to add and remove loop
devices from the running system:
LOOP_CTL_ADD adds a specific device. Arg is the number
of the device. It returns the device i or a negative
error code.LOOP_CTL_REMOVE removes a specific device, Arg is the
number the device. It returns the device i or a negative
error code.LOOP_CTL_GET_FREE finds the next unbound device or allocates
a new one. No arg is given. It returns the device i or a
negative error code.The loop kernel module gets automatically loaded when
/dev/loop-control is accessed the first time. The alias
specified in the module, instructs udev to create this
'dead' device node, even when the module is not loaded.Example:
cfd = open("/dev/loop-control", O_RDWR);# add a new specific loop device
err = ioctl(cfd, LOOP_CTL_ADD, devnr);# remove a specific loop device
err = ioctl(cfd, LOOP_CTL_REMOVE, devnr);# find or allocate a free loop device to use
devnr = ioctl(cfd, LOOP_CTL_GET_FREE);sprintf(loopname, "/dev/loop%i", devnr);
ffd = open("backing-file", O_RDWR);
lfd = open(loopname, O_RDWR);
err = ioctl(lfd, LOOP_SET_FD, ffd);Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Karel Zak
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
21 Aug, 2010
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Recent modprobe and udev versions allow to create device nodes
for modules which are not loaded. Only the first access will cause
the in-kernel module loader to pull-in the module. Systems which
never access the device node will not needlessly load the module,
and no longer need init scripts or other facilities to unconditionally
load it.Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov
12 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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Add devname:mapper/control and MAPPER_CTRL_MINOR module alias
to support dm-mod module autoloading.Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Peter Rajnoha
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon
09 Jun, 2010
1 commit
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10, 233 is allocated officially to /dev/kmview which is shipping in
Ubuntu and Debian distributions. vhost_net seem to have borrowed it
without making a proper request and this causes regressions in the other
distributions.vhost_net can use a dynamic minor so use that instead. Also update the
file with a comment to try and avoid future misunderstandings.cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox
[ We should have caught this before 2.6.34 got released. - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 May, 2010
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This adds:
alias: devname:
to some common kernel modules, which will allow the on-demand loading
of the kernel module when the device node is accessed.Ideally all these modules would be compiled-in, but distros seems too
much in love with their modularization that we need to cover the common
cases with this new facility. It will allow us to remove a bunch of pretty
useless init scripts and modprobes from init scripts.The static device node aliases will be carried in the module itself. The
program depmod will extract this information to a file in the module directory:
$ cat /lib/modules/2.6.34-00650-g537b60d-dirty/modules.devname
# Device nodes to trigger on-demand module loading.
microcode cpu/microcode c10:184
fuse fuse c10:229
ppp_generic ppp c108:0
tun net/tun c10:200
dm_mod mapper/control c10:235Udev will pick up the depmod created file on startup and create all the
static device nodes which the kernel modules specify, so that these modules
get automatically loaded when the device node is accessed:
$ /sbin/udevd --debug
...
static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/cpu/microcode' c10:184
static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/fuse' c10:229
static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/ppp' c108:0
static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/net/tun' c10:200
static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/mapper/control' c10:235
udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/net/tun' 0666
udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/fuse' 0666A few device nodes are switched to statically allocated numbers, to allow
the static nodes to work. This might also useful for systems which still run
a plain static /dev, which is completely unsafe to use with any dynamic minor
numbers.Note:
The devname aliases must be limited to the *common* and *single*instance*
device nodes, like the misc devices, and never be used for conceptually limited
systems like the loop devices, which should rather get fixed properly and get a
control node for losetup to talk to, instead of creating a random number of
device nodes in advance, regardless if they are ever used.This facility is to hide the mess distros are creating with too modualized
kernels, and just to hide that these modules are not compiled-in, and not to
paper-over broken concepts. Thanks! :)Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: David S. Miller
Cc: Miklos Szeredi
Cc: Chris Mason
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon
Cc: Tigran Aivazian
Cc: Ian Kent
Signed-Off-By: Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
15 Jan, 2010
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What it is: vhost net is a character device that can be used to reduce
the number of system calls involved in virtio networking.
Existing virtio net code is used in the guest without modification.There's similarity with vringfd, with some differences and reduced scope
- uses eventfd for signalling
- structures can be moved around in memory at any time (good for
migration, bug work-arounds in userspace)
- write logging is supported (good for migration)
- support memory table and not just an offset (needed for kvm)common virtio related code has been put in a separate file vhost.c and
can be made into a separate module if/when more backends appear. I used
Rusty's lguest.c as the source for developing this part : this supplied
me with witty comments I wouldn't be able to write myself.What it is not: vhost net is not a bus, and not a generic new system
call. No assumptions are made on how guest performs hypercalls.
Userspace hypervisors are supported as well as kvm.How it works: Basically, we connect virtio frontend (configured by
userspace) to a backend. The backend could be a network device, or a tap
device. Backend is also configured by userspace, including vlan/mac
etc.Status: This works for me, and I haven't see any crashes.
Compared to userspace, people reported improved latency (as I save up to
4 system calls per packet), as well as better bandwidth and CPU
utilization.Features that I plan to look at in the future:
- mergeable buffers
- zero copy
- scalability tuning: figure out the best threading model to useNote on RCU usage (this is also documented in vhost.h, near
private_pointer which is the value protected by this variant of RCU):
what is happening is that the rcu_dereference() is being used in a
workqueue item. The role of rcu_read_lock() is taken on by the start of
execution of the workqueue item, of rcu_read_unlock() by the end of
execution of the workqueue item, and of synchronize_rcu() by
flush_workqueue()/flush_work(). In the future we might need to apply
some gcc attribute or sparse annotation to the function passed to
INIT_WORK(). Paul's ack below is for this RCU usage.(Includes fixes by Alan Cox ,
David L Stevens ,
Chris Wright )Acked-by: Rusty Russell
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney"
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
20 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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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
16 Jun, 2009
1 commit
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This adds support for misc devices to report their requested nodename to
userspace. It also updates a number of misc drivers to provide the
needed subdirectory and device name to be used for them.Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
14 Mar, 2009
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Eric Moore
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley
26 Nov, 2008
1 commit
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Move FUSE_MINOR to miscdevice.h. While at it, de-uglify the file.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi
20 Apr, 2008
1 commit
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After 2.6.24 there was a plan to make the PM core acquire all device
semaphores during a suspend/hibernation to protect itself from
concurrent operations involving device objects. That proved to be
too heavy-handed and we found a better way to achieve the goal, but
before it happened, we had introduced the functions
device_pm_schedule_removal() and destroy_suspended_device() to allow
drivers to "safely" destroy a suspended device and we had adapted some
drivers to use them. Now that these functions are no longer necessary,
it seems reasonable to remove them and modify their users to use the
normal device unregistration instead.Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Acked-by: Pavel Machek
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
06 Feb, 2008
1 commit
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Make it possible to unregister a misc device object in a safe way during a
suspend/resume cycle.Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Cc: Michael Buesch
Cc: Pavel Machek
Cc: "John W. Linville"
Cc: Alan Stern
Cc: Len Brown
Cc: Greg KH
Cc: Kay Sievers
Cc: Richard Purdie
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
03 May, 2007
1 commit
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Use the minor number (232) allocated to kvm by lanana.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity
02 Dec, 2006
1 commit
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This also ment that some of the misc drivers had to also be fixed
up as they were assuming the device was a class_device.Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
27 Jun, 2006
1 commit
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Also fixes all drivers that set this field.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
29 Mar, 2006
1 commit
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Mark the f_ops members of inodes as const, as well as fix the
ripple-through this causes by places that copy this f_ops and then "do
stuff" with it.Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Apr, 2005
1 commit
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Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.Let it rip!
