TASK4: Implement sysfs attributes example #136
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Implement a kernel module which contains a kobject instance containing a linked list and having a sysfs attribute named "list". Writing to it should create a new node holding the string received from user and attach it to the aforementioned list. Reading the attribute should print all the exisitng nodes in the list. Signed-off-by: Victor Krasnoshchok <[email protected]>
04_basic_struct/sysfs_list.c
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| kfree(curr_data_item->payload); | ||
| list_del(&curr_data_item->list_node); | ||
| kfree(curr_data_item); | ||
| ++nodes_cnt; |
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It is not necessary please avoid pre-increment
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Sorry, but I didn't get what's wrong with pre-increment itself. As far as I remember, pre-incrementing works slightly faster (takes something like 1 or 2 instructions less than post-incrementing) by avoiding the need for a temporary storage for the value being incremented. Here I use nodes_cnt variable just to track how many nodes I had in the list before freeing; it wasn't required in the assignment, I just added this log line for myself for debugging purposes, since I failed to find any API which returns list nodes count by a single call.
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Also I've just checked https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.html - there seems to be no recommendations regarding using or not using prefix increment operation. The only mentions of "increment" word are these:
no space before the postfix increment & decrement unary operators:
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no space after the prefix increment & decrement unary operators:
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Fix coding style issues raised in CR Kernel-GL-HRK#136. Signed-off-by: Victor Krasnoshchok <[email protected]>
Implement a kernel module which contains a
kobject instance containing a linked list and
having a sysfs attribute named "list". Writing
to it should create a new node holding the
string received from user and attach it to the
aforementioned list. Reading the attribute
should print all the exisitng nodes in the list.
Signed-off-by: Victor Krasnoshchok [email protected]