mm/thp: use conventional format for boolean attributes
authorBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:22:21 +0000 (15:22 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:06:56 +0000 (16:06 -0700)
The conventional format for boolean attributes in sysfs is numeric ("0" or
"1" followed by new-line).  Any boolean attribute can then be read and
written using a generic function.  Using the strings "yes [no]", "[yes]
no" (read), "yes" and "no" (write) will frustrate this.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use kstrtoul()]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: test_bit() doesn't return 1/0, per Neil]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Tested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.38.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/huge_memory.c

index 1722683bde23793f9b5287c020109a745d6830a6..470dcda10addbc68e1470c9bc8c92b5dba103623 100644 (file)
@@ -244,24 +244,28 @@ static ssize_t single_flag_show(struct kobject *kobj,
                                struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf,
                                enum transparent_hugepage_flag flag)
 {
-       if (test_bit(flag, &transparent_hugepage_flags))
-               return sprintf(buf, "[yes] no\n");
-       else
-               return sprintf(buf, "yes [no]\n");
+       return sprintf(buf, "%d\n",
+                      !!test_bit(flag, &transparent_hugepage_flags));
 }
+
 static ssize_t single_flag_store(struct kobject *kobj,
                                 struct kobj_attribute *attr,
                                 const char *buf, size_t count,
                                 enum transparent_hugepage_flag flag)
 {
-       if (!memcmp("yes", buf,
-                   min(sizeof("yes")-1, count))) {
+       unsigned long value;
+       int ret;
+
+       ret = kstrtoul(buf, 10, &value);
+       if (ret < 0)
+               return ret;
+       if (value > 1)
+               return -EINVAL;
+
+       if (value)
                set_bit(flag, &transparent_hugepage_flags);
-       } else if (!memcmp("no", buf,
-                          min(sizeof("no")-1, count))) {
+       else
                clear_bit(flag, &transparent_hugepage_flags);
-       } else
-               return -EINVAL;
 
        return count;
 }