The patch titled
nbd: show nbd client pid in sysfs
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
nbd-show-nbd-client-pid-in-sysfs.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: nbd: show nbd client pid in sysfs
From: Paul Clements <paul.clements@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Allow nbd to expose the nbd-client daemon's PID in /sys/block/nbd<x>/pid.
This is helpful for tracking connection status of a device and for
determining which nbd devices are currently in use.
Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/nbd.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
include/linux/nbd.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff -puN drivers/block/nbd.c~nbd-show-nbd-client-pid-in-sysfs drivers/block/nbd.c
--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c~nbd-show-nbd-client-pid-in-sysfs
+++ a/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -355,14 +355,30 @@ harderror:
return NULL;
}
+static ssize_t pid_show(struct gendisk *disk, char *page)
+{
+ return sprintf(page, "%ld\n",
+ (long) ((struct nbd_device *)disk->private_data)->pid);
+}
+
+static struct disk_attribute pid_attr = {
+ .attr = { .name = "pid", .mode = S_IRUGO },
+ .show = pid_show,
+};
+
static void nbd_do_it(struct nbd_device *lo)
{
struct request *req;
BUG_ON(lo->magic != LO_MAGIC);
+ lo->pid = current->pid;
+ sysfs_create_file(&lo->disk->kobj, &pid_attr.attr);
+
while ((req = nbd_read_stat(lo)) != NULL)
nbd_end_request(req);
+
+ sysfs_remove_file(&lo->disk->kobj, &pid_attr.attr);
return;
}
diff -puN include/linux/nbd.h~nbd-show-nbd-client-pid-in-sysfs include/linux/nbd.h
--- a/include/linux/nbd.h~nbd-show-nbd-client-pid-in-sysfs
+++ a/include/linux/nbd.h
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ struct nbd_device {
struct gendisk *disk;
int blksize;
u64 bytesize;
+ pid_t pid; /* pid of nbd-client, if attached */
};
#endif
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from paul.clements@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
nbd-show-nbd-client-pid-in-sysfs.patch
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