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David Howells e8eeded3c5 ppc: Clean up rtas_flash driver somewhat

Clean up some of the problems with the rtas_flash driver:

 (1) It shouldn't fiddle with the internals of the procfs filesystem (altering
     pde->count).

 (2) If pid namespaces are in effect, then you can get multiple inodes
     connected to a single pde, thereby rendering the pde->count > 2 test
     useless.

 (3) The pde->count fudging doesn't work for forked, dup'd or cloned file
     descriptors, so add static mutexes and use them to wrap access to the
     driver through read, write and release methods.

 (4) The driver can only handle one device, so allocate most of the data
     previously attached to the pde->data as static variables instead (though
     allocate the validation data buffer with kmalloc).

 (5) We don't need to save the pde pointers as long as we have the filenames
     available for removal.

 (6) Don't try to multiplex what the update file read method does based on the
     filename.  Instead provide separate file ops and split the function.

Whilst we're at it, tabulate the procfile information and loop through it when
creating or destroying them rather than manually coding each one.

[Folded fixes from Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

2013-05-01 17:29:45 -04:00

alpha

srm_env: don't bother with pointer to srm_env_t

2013-04-09 14:13:33 -04:00

arc

ARC: split elf.h into uapi and export it for userspace

2013-02-27 20:00:26 +05:30

arm

arm: Don't use create_proc_read_entry()

2013-04-29 15:42:00 -04:00

arm64

arm64: Kconfig.debug: Remove unused CONFIG_DEBUG_ERRORS