sysfs: Support sysfs_notify from atomic context with new sysfs_notify_dirent

Support sysfs_notify from atomic context with new sysfs_notify_dirent

sysfs_notify currently takes sysfs_mutex.
This means that it cannot be called in atomic context.
sysfs_mutex  is sometimes held over a malloc (sysfs_rename_dir)
so it can block on low memory.

In md I want to be able to notify on a sysfs attribute from
atomic context, and I don't want to block on low memory because I
could be in the writeout path for freeing memory.

So:
 - export the "sysfs_dirent" structure along with sysfs_get, sysfs_put
   and sysfs_get_dirent so I can get the sysfs_dirent that I want to
   notify on and hold it in an md structure.
 - split sysfs_notify_dirent out of sysfs_notify so the sysfs_dirent
   can be notified on with no blocking (just a spinlock).

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index aedaeba82ae..53bc7fc31af 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -636,6 +636,7 @@ struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_get_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd,
 
 	return sd;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_get_dirent);
 
 static int create_dir(struct kobject *kobj, struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd,
 		      const char *name, struct sysfs_dirent **p_sd)