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| author | Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> | 2026-08-05 07:52:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2026-08-10 11:47:20 -1000 |
| commit | a5bde5d8fde8a8cb28e59a672d5ddc5b9c1e7656 (patch) | |
| tree | 39f5b258386e1127d253d293194e9a2991bf3c34 /Documentation/admin-guide/binderfs.rst | |
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workqueue: skip the node_nr_active update for non-unbound workqueuesgrafted
apply_wqattrs_commit() updates node_nr_active->max unconditionally.
wq->node_nr_active[] is only allocated for unbound workqueues, so guard
the call before per-cpu workqueues start using this path.
No functional change: only unbound workqueues reach apply_wqattrs_*()
today.
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/binderfs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/binderfs.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..41a4db00d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/binderfs.rst @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +The Android binderfs Filesystem +=============================== + +Android binderfs is a filesystem for the Android binder IPC mechanism. It +allows to dynamically add and remove binder devices at runtime. Binder devices +located in a new binderfs instance are independent of binder devices located in +other binderfs instances. Mounting a new binderfs instance makes it possible +to get a set of private binder devices. + +Mounting binderfs +----------------- + +Android binderfs can be mounted with:: + + mkdir /dev/binderfs + mount -t binder binder /dev/binderfs + +at which point a new instance of binderfs will show up at ``/dev/binderfs``. +In a fresh instance of binderfs no binder devices will be present. There will +only be a ``binder-control`` device which serves as the request handler for +binderfs. Mounting another binderfs instance at a different location will +create a new and separate instance from all other binderfs mounts. This is +identical to the behavior of e.g. ``devpts`` and ``tmpfs``. The Android +binderfs filesystem can be mounted in user namespaces. + +Options +------- +max + binderfs instances can be mounted with a limit on the number of binder + devices that can be allocated. The ``max=<count>`` mount option serves as + a per-instance limit. If ``max=<count>`` is set then only ``<count>`` number + of binder devices can be allocated in this binderfs instance. + +stats + Using ``stats=global`` enables global binder statistics. + ``stats=global`` is only available for a binderfs instance mounted in the + initial user namespace. An attempt to use the option to mount a binderfs + instance in another user namespace will return a permission error. + +Allocating binder Devices +------------------------- + +.. _ioctl: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ioctl.2.html + +To allocate a new binder device in a binderfs instance a request needs to be +sent through the ``binder-control`` device node. A request is sent in the form +of an `ioctl() <ioctl_>`_. + +What a program needs to do is to open the ``binder-control`` device node and +send a ``BINDER_CTL_ADD`` request to the kernel. Users of binderfs need to +tell the kernel which name the new binder device should get. By default a name +can only contain up to ``BINDERFS_MAX_NAME`` chars including the terminating +zero byte. + +Once the request is made via an `ioctl() <ioctl_>`_ passing a ``struct +binder_device`` with the name to the kernel it will allocate a new binder +device and return the major and minor number of the new device in the struct +(This is necessary because binderfs allocates a major device number +dynamically.). After the `ioctl() <ioctl_>`_ returns there will be a new +binder device located under /dev/binderfs with the chosen name. + +Deleting binder Devices +----------------------- + +.. _unlink: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/unlink.2.html +.. _rm: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/rm.1.html + +Binderfs binder devices can be deleted via `unlink() <unlink_>`_. This means +that the `rm() <rm_>`_ tool can be used to delete them. Note that the +``binder-control`` device cannot be deleted since this would make the binderfs +instance unusable. The ``binder-control`` device will be deleted when the +binderfs instance is unmounted and all references to it have been dropped. + +Binder features +--------------- + +Assuming an instance of binderfs has been mounted at ``/dev/binderfs``, the +features supported by the binder driver can be located under +``/dev/binderfs/features/``. The presence of individual files can be tested +to determine whether a particular feature is supported by the driver. + +Example:: + + cat /dev/binderfs/features/oneway_spam_detection + 1 |
