sysfs: implement kobj_sysfs_assoc_lock
kobj->dentry can go away anytime unless the user controls when the
associated sysfs node is deleted. This patch implements
kobj_sysfs_assoc_lock which protects kobj->dentry. This will be used
to maintain kobj based API when converting sysfs to use sysfs_dirent
tree instead of dentry/kobject.
Note that this lock belongs to kobject/driver-model not sysfs. Once
sysfs is converted to not use kobject in its interface, this can be
removed from sysfs.
This is in preparation of object reference simplification.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h b/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
index 39ab048..718e2e1 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
+++ b/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
extern int sysfs_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *iattr);
extern spinlock_t sysfs_lock;
+extern spinlock_t kobj_sysfs_assoc_lock;
extern struct rw_semaphore sysfs_rename_sem;
extern struct super_block * sysfs_sb;
extern const struct file_operations sysfs_dir_operations;