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SYSFS

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (2)
Updated: 2017-09-15
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NAME

sysfs - get filesystem type information  

SYNOPSIS

int sysfs(int option, const char *fsname);

int sysfs(int option, unsigned int fs_index, char *buf);

int sysfs(int option);  

DESCRIPTION

Note: if you are looking for information about the sysfs filesystem that is normally mounted at /sys, see sysfs(5).

The (obsolete) sysfs() system call returns information about the filesystem types currently present in the kernel. The specific form of the sysfs() call and the information returned depends on the option in effect:

1
Translate the filesystem identifier string fsname into a filesystem type index.
2
Translate the filesystem type index fs_index into a null-terminated filesystem identifier string. This string will be written to the buffer pointed to by buf. Make sure that buf has enough space to accept the string.
3
Return the total number of filesystem types currently present in the kernel.

The numbering of the filesystem type indexes begins with zero.  

RETURN VALUE

On success, sysfs() returns the filesystem index for option 1, zero for option 2, and the number of currently configured filesystems for option 3. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.  

ERRORS

EFAULT
Either fsname or buf is outside your accessible address space.
EINVAL
fsname is not a valid filesystem type identifier; fs_index is out-of-bounds; option is invalid.
 

CONFORMING TO

SVr4.  

NOTES

This System-V derived system call is obsolete; don't use it. On systems with /proc, the same information can be obtained via /proc/filesystems; use that interface instead.  

BUGS

There is no libc or glibc support. There is no way to guess how large buf should be.  

COLOPHON

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NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
ERRORS
CONFORMING TO
NOTES
BUGS
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SYSFS

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (5)
Updated: 2017-11-26
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NAME

sysfs - a filesystem for exporting kernel objects  

DESCRIPTION

The sysfs filesystem is a pseudo-filesystem which provides an interface to kernel data structures. (More precisely, the files and directories in sysfs provide a view of the kobject structures defined internally within the kernel.) The files under sysfs provide information about devices, kernel modules, filesystems, and other kernel components.

The sysfs filesystem is commonly mounted at /sys. Typically, it is mounted automatically by the system, but it can also be mounted manually using a command such as:

mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys

Many of the files in the sysfs filesystem are read-only, but some files are writable, allowing kernel variables to be changed. To avoid redundancy, symbolic links are heavily used to connect entries across the filesystem tree.  

Files and directories

The following list describes some of the files and directories under the /sys hierarchy.
/sys/block
This subdirectory contains one symbolic link for each block device that has been discovered on the system. The symbolic links point to corresponding directories under /sys/devices.
/sys/bus
This directory contains one subdirectory for each of the bus types in the kernel. Inside each of these directories are two subdirectories:
devices
This subdirectory contains symbolic links to entries in /sys/devices that correspond to the devices discovered on this bus.
drivers
This subdirectory contains one subdirectory for each device driver that is loaded on this bus.
/sys/class
This subdirectory contains a single layer of further subdirectories for each of the device classes that have been registered on the system (e.g., terminals, network devices, block devices, graphics devices, sound devices, and so on). Inside each of these subdirectories are symbolic links for each of the devices in this class. These symbolic links refer to entries in the /sys/devices directory.
/sys/class/net
Each of the entries in this directory is a symbolic link representing one of the real or virtual networking devices that are visible in the network namespace of the process that is accessing the directory. Each of these symbolic links refers to entries in the /sys/devices directory.
/sys/dev
This directory contains two subdirectories block/ and char/, corresponding, respectively, to the block and character devices on the system. Inside each of these subdirectories are symbolic links with names of the form major-ID:minor-ID, where the ID values correspond to the major and minor ID of a specific device. Each symbolic link points to the sysfs directory for a device. The symbolic links inside /sys/dev thus provide an easy way to look up the sysfs interface using the device IDs returned by a call to stat(2) (or similar).
The following shell session shows an example from /sys/dev:
$ stat -c "%t %T" /dev/null 1 3 $ readlink /sys/dev/char/1\:3 ../../devices/virtual/mem/null $ ls -Fd /sys/devices/virtual/mem/null /sys/devices/virtual/mem/null/ $ ls -d1 /sys/devices/virtual/mem/null/* /sys/devices/virtual/mem/null/dev /sys/devices/virtual/mem/null/power/ /sys/devices/virtual/mem/null/subsystem@ /sys/devices/virtual/mem/null/uevent
/sys/devices
This is a directory that contains a filesystem representation of the kernel device tree, which is a hierarchy of device structures within the kernel.
/sys/firmware
This subdirectory contains interfaces for viewing and manipulating firmware-specific objects and attributes.
/sys/fs
This directory contains subdirectories for some filesystems. A filesystem will have a subdirectory here only if it chose to explicitly create the subdirectory.
/sys/fs/cgroup
This directory conventionally is used as a mount point for a tmpfs(5) filesystem containing mount points for cgroups(7) filesystems.
/sys/hypervisor
[To be documented]
/sys/kernel
This subdirectory contains various files and subdirectories that provide information about the running kernel.
/sys/kernel/cgroup/
For information about the files in this directory, see cgroups(7).
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing
Mount point for the tracefs filesystem used by the kernel's ftrace facility. (For information on ftrace, see the kernel source file Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt.)
/sys/kernel/mm
This subdirectory contains various files and subdirectories that provide information about the kernel's memory management subsystem.
/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages
This subdirectory contains one subdirectory for each of the huge page sizes that the system supports. The subdirectory name indicates the huge page size (e.g., hugepages-2048kB). Within each of these subdirectories is a set of files that can be used to view and (in some cases) change settings associated with that huge page size. For further information, see the kernel source file Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt.
/sys/module
This subdirectory contains one subdirectory for each module that is loaded into the kernel. The name of each directory is the name of the module. In each of the subdirectories, there may be following files:
coresize
[to be documented]
initsize
[to be documented]
initstate
[to be documented]
refcnt
[to be documented]
srcversion
[to be documented]
taint
[to be documented]
uevent
[to be documented]
version
[to be documented]
In each of the subdirectories, there may be following subdirectories:
drivers
[To be documented]
holders
[To be documented]
notes
[To be documented]
parameters
This directory contains one file for each module parameter, with each file containing the value of the corresponding parameter. Some of these files are writable, allowing the
sections
This subdirectories contains files with information about module sections. This information is mainly used for debugging.
[To be documented]
/sys/power
[To be documented]
 

VERSIONS

The sysfs filesystem first appeared in Linux 2.6.0.  

CONFORMING TO

The sysfs filesystem is Linux-specific.  

NOTES

This manual page is incomplete, possibly inaccurate, and is the kind of thing that needs to be updated very often.  

SEE ALSO

proc(5), udev(7)

P. Mochel. (2005). The sysfs filesystem. Proceedings of the 2005 Ottawa Linux Symposium.

The kernel source file Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt and various other files in Documentation/ABI and Documentation/*/sysfs.txt  

COLOPHON

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Index

NAME
DESCRIPTION
Files and directories
VERSIONS
CONFORMING TO
NOTES
SEE ALSO
COLOPHON

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