* - no readahead or I/O queue unplugging required
*/
struct backing_dev_info directly_mappable_cdev_bdi = {
+ .name = "char",
.capabilities = (
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
/* permit private copies of the data to be taken */
}
/**
- * register_chrdev() - Register a major number for character devices.
+ * __register_chrdev() - create and register a cdev occupying a range of minors
* @major: major device number or 0 for dynamic allocation
+ * @baseminor: first of the requested range of minor numbers
+ * @count: the number of minor numbers required
* @name: name of this range of devices
* @fops: file operations associated with this devices
*
* /dev. It only helps to keep track of the different owners of devices. If
* your module name has only one type of devices it's ok to use e.g. the name
* of the module here.
- *
- * This function registers a range of 256 minor numbers. The first minor number
- * is 0.
*/
- int register_chrdev(unsigned int major, const char *name,
- const struct file_operations *fops)
+ int __register_chrdev(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
+ unsigned int count, const char *name,
+ const struct file_operations *fops)
{
struct char_device_struct *cd;
struct cdev *cdev;
char *s;
int err = -ENOMEM;
- cd = __register_chrdev_region(major, 0, 256, name);
+ cd = __register_chrdev_region(major, baseminor, count, name);
if (IS_ERR(cd))
return PTR_ERR(cd);
for (s = strchr(kobject_name(&cdev->kobj),'/'); s; s = strchr(s, '/'))
*s = '!';
- err = cdev_add(cdev, MKDEV(cd->major, 0), 256);
+ err = cdev_add(cdev, MKDEV(cd->major, baseminor), count);
if (err)
goto out;
out:
kobject_put(&cdev->kobj);
out2:
- kfree(__unregister_chrdev_region(cd->major, 0, 256));
+ kfree(__unregister_chrdev_region(cd->major, baseminor, count));
return err;
}
}
}
- void unregister_chrdev(unsigned int major, const char *name)
+ /**
+ * __unregister_chrdev - unregister and destroy a cdev
+ * @major: major device number
+ * @baseminor: first of the range of minor numbers
+ * @count: the number of minor numbers this cdev is occupying
+ * @name: name of this range of devices
+ *
+ * Unregister and destroy the cdev occupying the region described by
+ * @major, @baseminor and @count. This function undoes what
+ * __register_chrdev() did.
+ */
+ void __unregister_chrdev(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
+ unsigned int count, const char *name)
{
struct char_device_struct *cd;
- cd = __unregister_chrdev_region(major, 0, 256);
+
+ cd = __unregister_chrdev_region(major, baseminor, count);
if (cd && cd->cdev)
cdev_del(cd->cdev);
kfree(cd);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(cdev_del);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(cdev_add);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(cdev_index);
- EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_chrdev);
- EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_chrdev);
+ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__register_chrdev);
+ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__unregister_chrdev);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(directly_mappable_cdev_bdi);
struct inode {
struct hlist_node i_hash;
- struct list_head i_list;
+ struct list_head i_list; /* backing dev IO list */
struct list_head i_sb_list;
struct list_head i_dentry;
unsigned long i_ino;
struct xattr_handler **s_xattr;
struct list_head s_inodes; /* all inodes */
- struct list_head s_dirty; /* dirty inodes */
- struct list_head s_io; /* parked for writeback */
- struct list_head s_more_io; /* parked for more writeback */
struct hlist_head s_anon; /* anonymous dentries for (nfs) exporting */
struct list_head s_files;
/* s_dentry_lru and s_nr_dentry_unused are protected by dcache_lock */
void (*put_link) (struct dentry *, struct nameidata *, void *);
void (*truncate) (struct inode *);
int (*permission) (struct inode *, int);
+ int (*check_acl)(struct inode *, int);
int (*setattr) (struct dentry *, struct iattr *);
int (*getattr) (struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *, struct kstat *);
int (*setxattr) (struct dentry *, const char *,const void *,size_t,int);
struct vfsmount *mnt);
extern void simple_set_mnt(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct super_block *sb);
int __put_super_and_need_restart(struct super_block *sb);
+void put_super(struct super_block *sb);
/* Alas, no aliases. Too much hassle with bringing module.h everywhere */
#define fops_get(fops) \
#define CHRDEV_MAJOR_HASH_SIZE 255
extern int alloc_chrdev_region(dev_t *, unsigned, unsigned, const char *);
extern int register_chrdev_region(dev_t, unsigned, const char *);
- extern int register_chrdev(unsigned int, const char *,
- const struct file_operations *);
- extern void unregister_chrdev(unsigned int, const char *);
+ extern int __register_chrdev(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
+ unsigned int count, const char *name,
+ const struct file_operations *fops);
+ extern void __unregister_chrdev(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
+ unsigned int count, const char *name);
extern void unregister_chrdev_region(dev_t, unsigned);
extern void chrdev_show(struct seq_file *,off_t);
+ static inline int register_chrdev(unsigned int major, const char *name,
+ const struct file_operations *fops)
+ {
+ return __register_chrdev(major, 0, 256, name, fops);
+ }
+
+ static inline void unregister_chrdev(unsigned int major, const char *name)
+ {
+ __unregister_chrdev(major, 0, 256, name);
+ }
+
/* fs/block_dev.c */
#define BDEVNAME_SIZE 32 /* Largest string for a blockdev identifier */
#define BDEVT_SIZE 10 /* Largest string for MAJ:MIN for blkdev */
extern int invalidate_inode_pages2(struct address_space *mapping);
extern int invalidate_inode_pages2_range(struct address_space *mapping,
pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end);
-extern void generic_sync_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb,
- struct writeback_control *wbc);
extern int write_inode_now(struct inode *, int);
extern int filemap_fdatawrite(struct address_space *);
extern int filemap_flush(struct address_space *);
extern int set_blocksize(struct block_device *, int);
extern int sb_set_blocksize(struct super_block *, int);
extern int sb_min_blocksize(struct super_block *, int);
-extern int sb_has_dirty_inodes(struct super_block *);
extern int generic_file_mmap(struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *);
extern int generic_file_readonly_mmap(struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *);