sysfs: add sysfs_dirent->s_parent

Add sysfs_dirent->s_parent.  With this patch, each sd points to and
holds a reference to its parent.  This allows walking sysfs tree
without referencing sd->s_dentry which can go away anytime if the user
doesn't control when it's deleted.

sd->s_parent is initialized and parent is referenced in
sysfs_attach_dirent().  Reference to parent is released when the sd is
released, so as long as reference to a sd is held, s_parent can be
followed.

dentry walk in sysfs_readdir() is convereted to s_parent walk.

This will be used to reimplement symlink such that it uses only
sysfs_dirent tree.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Tejun Heo
2007-06-14 03:45:14 +09:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent a26cd7226c
commit 13b3086d2e
3 changed files with 25 additions and 7 deletions

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struct sysfs_dirent {
atomic_t s_count;
struct sysfs_dirent * s_parent;
struct list_head s_sibling;
struct list_head s_children;
void * s_element;