[PATCH v2 00/23] gpio: sysfs: fixes and clean ups

[Johan Hovold]

These patches fix a number of issues with the gpio sysfs interface,
including

 - fix memory leaks and crashes on device hotplug
 - straighten out the convoluted locking
 - reduce sysfs-interface latencies through more fine-grained locking
 - more clearly separate the sysfs-interface implementation from gpiolib
   core

The first patch is marked for stable and could go into 4.1. [ May
already have been applied but not pushed by Linus, but included in v2
for completeness.  ]

Unfortunately we can't just kill the gpio sysfs interface, but these
patches will make it more manageable and should allow us to implement a
new user-space interface while maintaining the old one (for a while at
least) without losing our sanity.

Note that there is still a race between chip remove and gpiod_request (and
therefore sysfs export), which needs to be fixed separately (for instance as
part of a generic solution to chip hotplugging).

Johan


Changes since v1:
 - Keep explicit lock-as-irq call in sysfs and add comment that it
   should be removed once the broken drivers have been fixed (patch
   3/23).
 - Add comment that the class-device field of struct gpiochip is used by
   the sysfs interface (patch 6/23).
 - Add "sysfs"-infix to gpiochip sysfs registration functions as suggested
   by Alexandre (patch 7/23).


Johan Hovold (23):
  gpio: sysfs: fix memory leaks and device hotplug
  gpio: clean up gpiochip_remove
  gpio: sysfs: fix redundant lock-as-irq handling
  gpio: sysfs: preparatory clean ups
  gpio: sysfs: reduce gpiochip-export locking scope
  gpio: sysfs: clean up chip class-device handling
  gpio: sysfs: rename gpiochip registration functions
  gpio: remove gpiod_sysfs_set_active_low
  gpio: sysfs: use DEVICE_ATTR macros
  gpio: sysfs: release irq after class-device deregistration
  gpio: sysfs: remove redundant export tests
  gpio: sysfs: add gpiod class-device data
  gpio: sysfs: remove redundant gpio-descriptor parameters
  gpio: sysfs: clean up interrupt-interface implementation
  gpio: sysfs: only call irq helper if needed
  gpio: sysfs: split irq allocation and deallocation
  gpio: sysfs: clean up edge_store
  gpio: sysfs: clean up gpiod_export_link locking
  gpio: sysfs: use per-gpio locking
  gpio: sysfs: fix race between gpiod export and unexport
  gpio: sysfs: rename active-low helper
  gpio: sysfs: remove FLAG_SYSFS_DIR
  gpio: sysfs: move irq trigger flags to class-device data

 Documentation/gpio/gpio-legacy.txt |   9 -
 Documentation/gpio/sysfs.txt       |   8 -
 Documentation/zh_CN/gpio.txt       |   8 -
 drivers/gpio/gpiolib-sysfs.c       | 578 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c             |  18 +-
 drivers/gpio/gpiolib.h             |  16 +-
 include/asm-generic/gpio.h         |   5 -
 include/linux/gpio.h               |   7 -
 include/linux/gpio/consumer.h      |   6 -
 include/linux/gpio/driver.h        |   4 +-
 10 files changed, 290 insertions(+), 369 deletions(-)

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2.0.5

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