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* [PATCHv3 0/2] libfs,xenfs: replace /proc/xen/xenbus with a symlink
@ 2016-06-28 18:06 ` David Vrabel
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From: David Vrabel @ 2016-06-28 18:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alexander Viro
  Cc: David Vrabel, linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel, xen-devel,
	Boris Ostrovsky, Juergen Gross

Using /proc/xen/xenbus can cause deadlocks on the atomic file position
mutex since this file should behave like a character device and not a
regular file.  This is easiest to achive by making it a symlink to the
existing /dev/xen/xenbus device.

This requires extending simple_fill_super() to add symlinks as well as
regular files.

Changes in v3:
- Rebased on v4.7-rc5.

David


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2016-06-28 18:06 ` [PATCHv3 2/2] xenfs: replace xenbus and privcmd with symlinks David Vrabel
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