Devtmpfs lets the kernel create a tmpfs instance called devtmpfs
very early at kernel initialization, before any driver-core device
is registered. Every device with a major/minor will provide a
device node in devtmpfs.
Devtmpfs can be changed and altered by userspace at any time,
and in any way needed - just like today's udev-mounted tmpfs.
Unmodified udev versions will run just fine on top of it, and will
recognize an already existing kernel-created device node and use it.
The default node permissions are root:root 0600. Proper permissions
and user/group ownership, meaningful symlinks, all other policy still
needs to be applied by userspace.
If a node is created by devtmps, devtmpfs will remove the device node
when the device goes away. If the device node was created by
userspace, or the devtmpfs created node was replaced by userspace, it
will no longer be removed by devtmpfs.
If it is requested to auto-mount it, it makes init=/bin/sh work
without any further userspace support. /dev will be fully populated
and dynamic, and always reflect the current device state of the kernel.
With the commonly used dynamic device numbers, it solves the problem
where static devices nodes may point to the wrong devices.
It is intended to make the initial bootup logic simpler and more robust,
by de-coupling the creation of the inital environment, to reliably run
userspace processes, from a complex userspace bootstrap logic to provide
a working /dev.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Tested-By: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fix up a number of coding style issues in the drivers/base/ directory
that have annoyed me over the years. checkpatch.pl is now very happy.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
LIST_HEAD has been widely used, so switch to this simpler method.
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
To have a home for all hypervisors, this patch creates /sys/hypervisor.
A new config option SYS_HYPERVISOR is introduced, which should to be set
by architecture dependent hypervisors (e.g. s390 or Xen).
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This adds generic memory add/remove and supporting functions for memory
hotplug into a new file as well as a memory hotplug kernel config option.
Individual architecture patches will follow.
For now, disable memory hotplug when swsusp is enabled. There's a lot of
churn there right now. We'll fix it up properly once it calms down.
Signed-off-by: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
There are a number of sparse warnings from the latest sparse
snapshot being generated from the drivers/base build. The
main culprits are due to the initialisation functions not
being declared in a header file.
Also, the firmware.c file should include <linux/device.h>
to get the prototype of firmware_register() and
firmware_unregister().
This patch moves the init function declerations from the
init.c file to the base.h, and ensures it is included in
all the relevant c sources. It also adds <linux/device.h>
to the included headers for firmware.c.
The patch does not solve all the sparse errors generated,
but reduces the count significantly.
drivers/base/core.c:161:1: warning: symbol 'devices_subsys' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/core.c:417:12: warning: symbol 'devices_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/sys.c:253:6: warning: symbol 'sysdev_shutdown' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/sys.c:326:5: warning: symbol 'sysdev_suspend' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/sys.c:428:5: warning: symbol 'sysdev_resume' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/sys.c:450:12: warning: symbol 'system_bus_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/bus.c:133:1: warning: symbol 'bus_subsys' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/bus.c:667:12: warning: symbol 'buses_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/class.c:759:12: warning: symbol 'classes_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/platform.c:313:12: warning: symbol 'platform_bus_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/cpu.c:110:12: warning: symbol 'cpu_dev_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/firmware.c:17:5: warning: symbol 'firmware_register' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/firmware.c:23:6: warning: symbol 'firmware_unregister' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/firmware.c:28:12: warning: symbol 'firmware_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/init.c:28:13: warning: symbol 'driver_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/dmapool.c:174:10: warning: implicit cast from nocast type
drivers/base/attribute_container.c:439:1: warning: symbol 'attribute_container_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/base/power/runtime.c:76:6: warning: symbol 'dpm_set_power_state' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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!
Kay Sievers
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Denis Cheng
Michael Holzheu
Dave Hansen
Ben Dooks
Linus Torvalds