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* [PATCH 0/4] uio hotplug support
@ 2014-12-16 19:52 Mandeep Sandhu
  2014-12-16 19:52 ` [PATCH 1/4] staging: uio: Simplify the lifetime logic of struct uio_device Mandeep Sandhu
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From: Mandeep Sandhu @ 2014-12-16 19:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: hjk, gregkh; +Cc: linux-kernel, viro, linux-fsdevel, Mandeep Sandhu

Implement the ability to hotunplug a uio device while file handles
are still open without crashing.

The "locking" for hotunplug support is implemented in
a generic library, that should be reusable to make this
kind of support easier to add in other pieces of the kernel.

I'm re-submitting this patch originally authored by Eric W. Biederman.

See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/20/21

I have made minor modifications for making it compile with the latest
kernel version (3.18.0-rc7+).

I have tested this patch on Greg's staging-next branch with a fake
hotplug driver that I wrote. The code for the fake hotplug driver is
available here:
https://github.com/mandeepsandhu/uio-hotplug-test

I would like to attribute the patch to Eric, as he's the original
author and can possibly be the maintainer for fs/libunload.c? I can
put my name in "Tested-by" if people are satisified with the fake
test program I wrote.

Mandeep Sandhu (4):
  staging: uio: Simplify the lifetime logic of struct uio_device.
  staging: uio: Remove unused uio_info mmap method.
  staging: libunload: A library to help remove open files
  staging: uio: Implement hotunplug support, using libunload

 drivers/uio/uio.c          | 305 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 fs/Makefile                |   2 +-
 fs/libunload.c             | 169 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/uio_driver.h |  16 +--
 include/linux/unload.h     |  35 ++++++
 5 files changed, 427 insertions(+), 100 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 fs/libunload.c
 create mode 100644 include/linux/unload.h

-- 
1.9.1

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2015-01-09 23:27   ` Greg KH
2015-01-09 23:36     ` Mandeep Sandhu
2015-01-09 23:45       ` Greg KH
2014-12-16 19:52 ` [PATCH 2/4] staging: uio: Remove unused uio_info mmap method Mandeep Sandhu
2014-12-16 19:52 ` [PATCH 3/4] staging: libunload: A library to help remove open files Mandeep Sandhu
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