【linux API 分析】register_chrdev

linux kernel：4.19
在注册字符设备的时候，可使用register_chrdev()函数，其对应的注销函数是unregister_chrdev()，其定义是在include\linux\fs.h文件

register_chrdev()

首先分析register_chrdev()函数
其定义如下

static inline int register_chrdev(unsigned int major, const char *name,
				  const struct file_operations *fops)
{
	return __register_chrdev(major, 0, 256, name, fops);
}

该函数会调用__register_chrdev()函数，其定义位于fs\char_dev.c文件

/**
 * __register_chrdev() - create and register a cdev occupying a range of minors
 * @major: major device number or 0 for dynamic allocation
 * @baseminor: first of the requested range of minor numbers
 * @count: the number of minor numbers required
 * @name: name of this range of devices
 * @fops: file operations associated with this devices
 *
 * If @major == 0 this functions will dynamically allocate a major and return
 * its number.
 *
 * If @major > 0 this function will attempt to reserve a device with the given
 * major number and will return zero on success.
 *
 * Returns a -ve errno on failure.
 *
 * The name of this device has nothing to do with the name of the device in
 * /dev. It only helps to keep track of the different owners of devices. If
 * your module name has only one type of devices it's ok to use e.g. the name
 * of the module here.
 */
int __register_chrdev(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
		      unsigned int count, const char *name,
		      const struct file_operations *fops)
{
	struct char_device_struct *cd;
	struct cdev *cdev;
	int err = -ENOMEM;

	cd = __register_chrdev_region(major, baseminor, count, name);
	if (IS_ERR(cd))
		return PTR_ERR(cd);

	cdev = cdev_alloc();
	if (!cdev)
		goto out2;

	cdev->owner = fops->owner;
	cdev->ops = fops;
	kobject_set_name(&cdev->kobj, "%s", name);

	err = cdev_add(cdev, MKDEV(cd->major, baseminor), count);
	if (err)
		goto out;

	cd->cdev = cdev;

	return major ? 0 : cd->major;
out:
	kobject_put(&cdev->kobj);
out2:
	kfree(__unregister_chrdev_region(cd->major, baseminor, count));
	return err;
}

__register_chrdev()函数首先调用__register_chrdev_region()函数

/*
 * Register a single major with a specified minor range.
 *
 * If major == 0 this functions will dynamically allocate a major and return
 * its number.
 *
 * If major > 0 this function will attempt to reserve the passed range of
 * minors and will return zero on success.
 *
 * Returns a -ve errno on failure.
 */
static struct char_device_struct *
__register_chrdev_region(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
			   int minorct, const char *name)
{
	struct char_device_struct *cd, **cp;
	int ret = 0;
	int i;

	cd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct char_device_struct), GFP_KERNEL);
	if (cd == NULL)
		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

	mutex_lock(&chrdevs_lock);

	if (major == 0) {
		ret = find_dynamic_major();
		if (ret < 0) {
			pr_err("CHRDEV \"%s\" dynamic allocation region is full\n",
			       name);
			goto out;
		}
		major = ret;
	}

	if (major >= CHRDEV_MAJOR_MAX) {
		pr_err("CHRDEV \"%s\" major requested (%u) is greater than the maximum (%u)\n",
		       name, major, CHRDEV_MAJOR_MAX-1);
		ret = -EINVAL;
		goto out;
	}

	cd->major = major;
	cd->baseminor = baseminor;
	cd->minorct = minorct;
	strlcpy(cd->name, name, sizeof(cd->name));

	i = major_to_index(major);

	for (cp = &chrdevs[i]; *cp; cp = &(*cp)->next)
		if ((*cp)->major > major ||
		    ((*cp)->major == major &&
		     (((*cp)->baseminor >= baseminor) ||
		      ((*cp)->baseminor + (*cp)->minorct > baseminor))))
			break;

	/* Check for overlapping minor ranges.  */
	if (*cp && (*cp)->major == major) {
		int old_min = (*cp)->baseminor;
		int old_max = (*cp)->baseminor + (*cp)->minorct - 1;
		int new_min = baseminor;
		int new_max = baseminor + minorct - 1;

		/* New driver overlaps from the left.  */
		if (new_max >= old_min && new_max <= old_max) {
			ret = -EBUSY;
			goto out;
		}

		/* New driver overlaps from the right.  */
		if (new_min <= old_max && new_min >= old_min) {
			ret = -EBUSY;
			goto out;
		}

		if (new_min < old_min && new_max > old_max) {
			ret = -EBUSY;
			goto out;
		}

	}

	cd->next = *cp;
	*cp = cd;
	mutex_unlock(&chrdevs_lock);
	return cd;
out:
	mutex_unlock(&chrdevs_lock);
	kfree(cd);
	return ERR_PTR(ret);
}

其次调用cdev_alloc()函数

struct cdev *cdev_alloc(void)
{
	struct cdev *p = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cdev), GFP_KERNEL);
	if (p) {
		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->list);
		kobject_init(&p->kobj, &ktype_cdev_dynamic);
	}
	return p;
}

然后调用cdev_add()函数

/**
 * cdev_add() - add a char device to the system
 * @p: the cdev structure for the device
 * @dev: the first device number for which this device is responsible
 * @count: the number of consecutive minor numbers corresponding to this
 *         device
 *
 * cdev_add() adds the device represented by @p to the system, making it
 * live immediately.  A negative error code is returned on failure.
 */
int cdev_add(struct cdev *p, dev_t dev, unsigned count)
{
	int error;

	p->dev = dev;
	p->count = count;

	error = kobj_map(cdev_map, dev, count, NULL,
			 exact_match, exact_lock, p);
	if (error)
		return error;

	kobject_get(p->kobj.parent);

	return 0;
}

综上register_chrdev函数调用流程如下

register_chrdev()
	-->__register_chrdev()
		-->__register_chrdev_region()
		-->cdev_alloc()
		-->cdev_add()

从__register_chrdev_region()函数可以看出，该函数会根据传入的参数，去完善结构体 char_device_struct（除cdev结构体），并返回该结构体地址

static struct char_device_struct {
	struct char_device_struct *next;
	unsigned int major;
	unsigned int baseminor;
	int minorct;
	char name[64];
	struct cdev *cdev;		/* will die */
} *chrdevs[CHRDEV_MAJOR_HASH_SIZE];

该结构体中，存在一个链表，链表的作用分析如下：

#define CHRDEV_MAJOR_HASH_SIZE 255

可以看出分配的结构体指针数组有255个元素，由于有的主设备号大于254，故需要除以255取余，这样，当主设备号为256时，除以255取余为1，故存在数组chrdev[1]中，但chrdev也可存主设备号为1的元素，故使用链表，使主设备号为1的char_device_struct的next成员指向主设备号为256的char_device_struct

对于cdev结构体，其内容如下

struct cdev {
	struct kobject kobj;
	struct module *owner;
	const struct file_operations *ops;
	struct list_head list;
	dev_t dev;
	unsigned int count;
} __randomize_layout;

cdev_alloc()函数，该函数为cdev结构体分配内存空间，并初始化list以及kobj成员
对于kobj目前我没搞清楚，在这个时候看到了一篇文章，写得不错，有兴趣的去看这篇文章吧
链接: link