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sysctl: add support for poll()

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Adding support for poll() in sysctl fs allows userspace to receive
notifications of changes in sysctl entries.  This adds a infrastructure to
allow files in sysctl fs to be pollable and implements it for hostname and
domainname.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/declare/define/ for definitions]
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Lucas De Marchi
2011-11-02 13:39:22 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 088024b1de
commit f1ecf06854
5 changed files with 108 additions and 0 deletions
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kernel/utsname_sysctl.c
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@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#include <linux/uts.h>
#include <linux/utsname.h>
#include <linux/sysctl.h>
#include <linux/wait.h>
static void *get_uts(ctl_table *table, int write)
{
@@ -51,12 +52,19 @@ static int proc_do_uts_string(ctl_table *table, int write,
uts_table.data = get_uts(table, write);
r = proc_dostring(&uts_table,write,buffer,lenp, ppos);
put_uts(table, write, uts_table.data);
if (write)
proc_sys_poll_notify(table->poll);
return r;
}
#else
#define proc_do_uts_string NULL
#endif
static DEFINE_CTL_TABLE_POLL(hostname_poll);
static DEFINE_CTL_TABLE_POLL(domainname_poll);
static struct ctl_table uts_kern_table[] = {
{
.procname = "ostype",
@@ -85,6 +93,7 @@ static struct ctl_table uts_kern_table[] = {
.maxlen = sizeof(init_uts_ns.name.nodename),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_do_uts_string,
.poll = &hostname_poll,
},
{
.procname = "domainname",
@@ -92,6 +101,7 @@ static struct ctl_table uts_kern_table[] = {
.maxlen = sizeof(init_uts_ns.name.domainname),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_do_uts_string,
.poll = &domainname_poll,
},
{}
};
@@ -105,6 +115,19 @@ static struct ctl_table uts_root_table[] = {
{}
};
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL
/*
* Notify userspace about a change in a certain entry of uts_kern_table,
* identified by the parameter proc.
*/
void uts_proc_notify(enum uts_proc proc)
{
struct ctl_table *table = &uts_kern_table[proc];
proc_sys_poll_notify(table->poll);
}
#endif
static int __init utsname_sysctl_init(void)
{
register_sysctl_table(uts_root_table);