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Commit 2424b5dd authored by Dan Williams's avatar Dan Williams Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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sysfs: refill attribute buffer when reading from offset 0



Requiring userspace to close and re-open sysfs attributes has been the
policy since before 2.6.12.  It allows userspace to get a consistent
snapshot of kernel state and consume it with incremental reads and seeks.

Now, if the file position is zero the kernel assumes userspace wants to see
the new value.  The application for this change is to allow a userspace
RAID metadata handler to check the state of an array without causing any
memory allocations.  Thus not causing writeback to a raid array that might
be blocked waiting for userspace to take action.

Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent b844eba2
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