Re: split kobject creation and hotplug event generation

From: Kay Sievers
Date: Sat Feb 26 2005 - 01:05:12 EST


Sorry, the first patch has a typo.

On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 06:53:16AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> This splits the implicit generation of a hotplug events from
> kobject_add() and kobject_del(), to give the user of of these
> functions control over the time the event is created.
>
> The kobject_register() and unregister functions still have the same
> behavior and emit the events by themselves.
>
> The class, block and device core is changed now to emit the hotplug
> event _after_ the "dev" file, the "device" symlink and the default
> attributes are created. This will save udev from spinning in a stat() loop
> to wait for the files to appear, which is expensive if we have a lot of
> concurrent events.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>

===== drivers/base/class.c 1.62 vs edited =====
--- 1.62/drivers/base/class.c 2005-02-18 19:44:34 +01:00
+++ edited/drivers/base/class.c 2005-02-26 04:49:37 +01:00
@@ -430,6 +430,7 @@ int class_device_add(struct class_device
sysfs_create_link(&class_dev->kobj,
&class_dev->dev->kobj, "device");

+ kobject_hotplug(&class_dev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
register_done:
if (error && parent)
class_put(parent);
@@ -461,6 +462,7 @@ void class_device_del(struct class_devic
sysfs_remove_link(&class_dev->kobj, "device");
class_device_remove_attrs(class_dev);

+ kobject_hotplug(&class_dev->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
kobject_del(&class_dev->kobj);

if (parent)
===== drivers/base/core.c 1.91 vs edited =====
--- 1.91/drivers/base/core.c 2004-11-12 13:16:42 +01:00
+++ edited/drivers/base/core.c 2005-02-26 04:55:10 +01:00
@@ -260,6 +260,8 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
/* notify platform of device entry */
if (platform_notify)
platform_notify(dev);
+
+ kobject_hotplug(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
Done:
put_device(dev);
return error;
@@ -349,6 +351,7 @@ void device_del(struct device * dev)
platform_notify_remove(dev);
bus_remove_device(dev);
device_pm_remove(dev);
+ kobject_hotplug(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
kobject_del(&dev->kobj);
if (parent)
put_device(parent);
===== drivers/usb/host/hc_crisv10.c 1.7 vs edited =====
--- 1.7/drivers/usb/host/hc_crisv10.c 2004-12-21 02:15:10 +01:00
+++ edited/drivers/usb/host/hc_crisv10.c 2005-02-26 04:56:09 +01:00
@@ -4396,6 +4396,7 @@ static int __init etrax_usb_hc_init(void
device_initialize(&fake_device);
kobject_set_name(&fake_device.kobj, "etrax_usb");
kobject_add(&fake_device.kobj);
+ kobject_hotplug(&fake_device.kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
hc->bus->controller = &fake_device;
usb_register_bus(hc->bus);

===== fs/partitions/check.c 1.129 vs edited =====
--- 1.129/fs/partitions/check.c 2005-01-31 07:33:40 +01:00
+++ edited/fs/partitions/check.c 2005-02-26 06:58:33 +01:00
@@ -337,6 +337,7 @@ void register_disk(struct gendisk *disk)
if ((err = kobject_add(&disk->kobj)))
return;
disk_sysfs_symlinks(disk);
+ kobject_hotplug(&disk->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);

/* No minors to use for partitions */
if (disk->minors == 1) {
@@ -441,5 +442,6 @@ void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk)
sysfs_remove_link(&disk->driverfs_dev->kobj, "block");
put_device(disk->driverfs_dev);
}
+ kobject_hotplug(&disk->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
kobject_del(&disk->kobj);
}
===== lib/kobject.c 1.58 vs edited =====
--- 1.58/lib/kobject.c 2005-02-18 08:56:36 +01:00
+++ edited/lib/kobject.c 2005-02-26 04:48:18 +01:00
@@ -184,8 +184,6 @@ int kobject_add(struct kobject * kobj)
unlink(kobj);
if (parent)
kobject_put(parent);
- } else {
- kobject_hotplug(kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
}

return error;
@@ -207,7 +205,8 @@ int kobject_register(struct kobject * ko
printk("kobject_register failed for %s (%d)\n",
kobject_name(kobj),error);
dump_stack();
- }
+ } else
+ kobject_hotplug(kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
} else
error = -EINVAL;
return error;
@@ -301,7 +300,6 @@ int kobject_rename(struct kobject * kobj

void kobject_del(struct kobject * kobj)
{
- kobject_hotplug(kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
sysfs_remove_dir(kobj);
unlink(kobj);
}
@@ -314,6 +312,7 @@ void kobject_del(struct kobject * kobj)
void kobject_unregister(struct kobject * kobj)
{
pr_debug("kobject %s: unregistering\n",kobject_name(kobj));
+ kobject_hotplug(kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
kobject_del(kobj);
kobject_put(kobj);
}
===== net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c 1.2 vs edited =====
--- 1.2/net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c 2004-06-18 22:15:34 +02:00
+++ edited/net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c 2005-02-26 04:51:32 +01:00
@@ -248,6 +248,7 @@ int br_sysfs_addif(struct net_bridge_por
if (err)
goto out2;

+ kobject_hotplug(&p->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
return 0;
out2:
kobject_del(&p->kobj);
@@ -259,6 +260,7 @@ void br_sysfs_removeif(struct net_bridge
{
pr_debug("br_sysfs_removeif\n");
sysfs_remove_link(&p->br->ifobj, p->dev->name);
+ kobject_hotplug(&p->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
kobject_del(&p->kobj);
}


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