[PATCH] fs: export simple_dname for drm drivers.

Al Viro viro at ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Sun Jan 19 17:27:58 PST 2014


On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:54:44AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> David Herrmann's changes to use a pseudo filesystem for drm's shared
> inodes requires this be exported for drm to build as a module.
> 
> I'd like to merge this via the drm tree, so please ack.

Having looked through these patches...  The problem is that you'll get
your module impossible to unload.  Sane solution:

static struct vfsmount *drm_mnt;
static int count;
struct inode *drm_alloc_inode(void)
{
	struct inode *res;
	int err = simple_pin_fs(&drm_fs, &drm_mnt, &count);
	if (err)
		return ERR_PTR(err);
	res = alloc_anon_inode(drm_mnt->mnt_sb);
	if (IS_ERR(res))
		simple_release_fs(&drm_mnt, &count);
	return res;
}

/* call from drm_free_dev() */
void drm_put_anon_inode(struct drm_device *dev)
{
	iput(dev->anon_inode);
	simple_release_fs(&drm_mnt, &count);
}

and lose those kern_mount/kern_umount.


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