Re: [patch 3/8] procfs: Add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers

2012-08-16 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:29:27PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > This, BTW, is too convoluted for its own good. What you need is > something like > struct whatever { > struct seq_file *m; > struct file *f; > int flags; > }; > with single allocation of that sucker in your ->open(). Set

Re: [patch 3/8] procfs: Add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers

2012-08-15 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:29:27PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > This, BTW, is too convoluted for its own good. What you need is > something like > struct whatever { > struct seq_file *m; > struct file *f; > int flags; > }; > with single allocation of that sucker in your ->open().

Re: [patch 3/8] procfs: Add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers

2012-08-15 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:16:28PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 01:21:19PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > > -static int fdinfo_open_helper(struct inode *inode, int *f_flags, struct > > path *path) > > +static int fdinfo_open_helper(struct inode *inode, int *f_flags, struct > >

Re: [patch 3/8] procfs: Add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers

2012-08-15 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 01:21:19PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > struct proc_fdinfo { > - loff_t f_pos; > - int f_flags; > + struct file *f_file; > + int f_flags; > }; > + struct proc_fdinfo *fdinfo; > + struct seq_file *m; > + int ret; > >

Re: [patch 3/8] procfs: Add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers

2012-08-15 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 01:21:19PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > -static int fdinfo_open_helper(struct inode *inode, int *f_flags, struct path > *path) > +static int fdinfo_open_helper(struct inode *inode, int *f_flags, struct file > **f_file, struct path *path) Bloody bad taste, that... This

Re: [patch 3/8] procfs: Add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers

2012-08-15 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 01:07:03AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 02:21:47AM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > > > Hmm, in very first versions I've been using one ->show method, but > > > then I thought that this is not very correlate with seq-files idea > > > where for each record s

Re: [patch 3/8] procfs: Add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers

2012-08-14 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 02:21:47AM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > > Hmm, in very first versions I've been using one ->show method, but > > then I thought that this is not very correlate with seq-files idea > > where for each record show/next sequence is called. I'll update (this > > for sure will

Re: [patch 3/8] procfs: Add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers

2012-08-14 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 01:56:16AM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > > > struct file_operations { > > > struct module *owner; > > > + struct seq_operations *fdinfo_ops; > > > > IDGI. Why on the earth do you need the whole iterator? All it takes > > is show_fdinfo(struct seq_file *m, struct file

Re: [patch 3/8] procfs: Add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers

2012-08-14 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:27:21PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:56:49PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > > Al, does the patch below looks better? If so I'll fix up the rest. > > > struct file_operations { > > struct module *owner; > > + struct seq_operations *fdinfo_ops

Re: [patch 3/8] procfs: Add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers

2012-08-14 Thread Al Viro
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:56:49PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > Al, does the patch below looks better? If so I'll fix up the rest. > struct file_operations { > struct module *owner; > + struct seq_operations *fdinfo_ops; IDGI. Why on the earth do you need the whole iterator? All i

Re: [patch 3/8] procfs: Add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers

2012-08-14 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:35:58PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 07:31:42PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > > Initially we considered to inject some "show" metod to > > > file_operations but since there really a number of > > > file_operations declared inside kernel (and in real

Re: [patch 3/8] procfs: Add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers

2012-08-14 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 07:31:42PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > Initially we considered to inject some "show" metod to > > file_operations but since there really a number of > > file_operations declared inside kernel (and in real the > > further patches cover onle eventfd/epoll/inotify) the > > waste

Re: [patch 3/8] procfs: Add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers

2012-08-14 Thread Al Viro
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 06:03:45PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > This patch brings ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers. > For example in further patches eventfd, evenpoll and fsnotify > will print out information associated with files. > > This feature is CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE guar

Re: [patch 3/8] procfs: Add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers

2012-08-14 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
On 08/14/2012 06:03 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > This patch brings ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers. > For example in further patches eventfd, evenpoll and fsnotify > will print out information associated with files. > > This feature is CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE guarded to eliminate >