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Author SHA1 Message Date
Nick Piggin
873feea09e fs: dcache per-inode inode alias locking
dcache_inode_lock can be replaced with per-inode locking. Use existing
inode->i_lock for this. This is slightly non-trivial because we sometimes
need to find the inode from the dentry, which requires d_inode to be
stabilised (either with refcount or d_lock).

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:31 +11:00
Nick Piggin
b5c84bf6f6 fs: dcache remove dcache_lock
dcache_lock no longer protects anything. remove it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:23 +11:00
Nick Piggin
b23fb0a603 fs: scale inode alias list
Add a new lock, dcache_inode_lock, to protect the inode's i_dentry list
from concurrent modification. d_alias is also protected by d_lock.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:22 +11:00
Nick Piggin
2fd6b7f507 fs: dcache scale subdirs
Protect d_subdirs and d_child with d_lock, except in filesystems that aren't
using dcache_lock for these anyway (eg. using i_mutex).

Note: if we change the locking rule in future so that ->d_child protection is
provided only with ->d_parent->d_lock, it may allow us to reduce some locking.
But it would be an exception to an otherwise regular locking scheme, so we'd
have to see some good results. Probably not worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:21 +11:00
Eric Paris
52420392c8 fsnotify: call fsnotify_parent in perm events
fsnotify perm events do not call fsnotify parent.  That means you cannot
register a perm event on a directory and enforce permissions on all inodes in
that directory.  This patch fixes that situation.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-10-28 17:22:13 -04:00
Eric Paris
ff8bcbd03d fsnotify: correctly handle return codes from listeners
When fsnotify groups return errors they are ignored.  For permissions
events these should be passed back up the stack, but for most events these
should continue to be ignored.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-10-28 17:22:13 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
4d4eb36679 fsnotify: use dget_parent
Use dget_parent instead of opencoding it.  This simplifies the code, but
more importanly prepares for the more complicated locking for a parent
dget in the dcache scale patch series.

It means we do grab a reference to the parent now if need to be watched,
but not with the specified mask.  If this turns out to be a problem
we'll have to revisit it, but for now let's keep as much as possible
dcache internals inside dcache.[ch].

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-25 21:26:14 -04:00
Eric Paris
92b4678efa fsnotify: drop two useless bools in the fnsotify main loop
The fsnotify main loop has 2 bools which indicated if we processed the
inode or vfsmount mark in that particular pass through the loop.  These
bool can we replaced with the inode_group and vfsmount_group variables
and actually make the code a little easier to understand.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-08-27 21:42:11 -04:00
Eric Paris
f72adfd540 fsnotify: fix list walk order
Marks were stored on the inode and vfsmonut mark list in order from
highest memory address to lowest memory address.  The code to walk those
lists thought they were in order from lowest to highest with
unpredictable results when trying to match up marks from each.  It was
possible that extra events would be sent to userspace when inode
marks ignoring events wouldn't get matched with the vfsmount marks.

This problem only affected fanotify when using both vfsmount and inode
marks simultaneously.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-08-27 21:41:26 -04:00
Eric Paris
84e1ab4d87 fsnotify: fix ignored mask handling between inode and vfsmount marks
The interesting 2 list lockstep walking didn't quite work out if the inode
marks only had ignores and the vfsmount list requested events.  The code to
shortcut list traversal would not run the inode list since it didn't have real
event requests.  This code forces inode list traversal when a vfsmount mark
matches the event type.  Maybe we could add an i_fsnotify_ignored_mask field
to struct inode to get the shortcut back, but it doesn't seem worth it to grow
struct inode again.

I bet with the recent changes to lock the way we do now it would actually not
be a major perf hit to just drop i_fsnotify_mark_mask altogether.  But that is
for another day.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-08-22 20:09:41 -04:00
Eric Paris
5f3f259fa8 fsnotify: reset used_inode and used_vfsmount on each pass
The fsnotify main loop has 2 booleans which tell if a particular mark was
sent to the listeners or if it should be processed in the next pass.  The
problem is that the booleans were not reset on each traversal of the loop.
So marks could get skipped even when they were not sent to the notifiers.

Reported-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-08-22 20:09:41 -04:00
Eric Paris
faa9560ae7 fanotify: do not dereference inode_mark when it is unset
The fanotify code is supposed to get the group from the mark.  It accidentally
only used the inode_mark.  If the vfsmount_mark was set but not the inode_mark
it would deref the NULL inode_mark.  Get the group from the correct place.

Reported-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-08-22 20:09:41 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
2069601b3f Revert "fsnotify: store struct file not struct path"
This reverts commit 3bcf3860a4 (and the
accompanying commit c1e5c95402 "vfs/fsnotify: fsnotify_close can delay
the final work in fput" that was a horribly ugly hack to make it work at
all).

The 'struct file' approach not only causes that disgusting hack, it
somehow breaks pulseaudio, probably due to some other subtlety with
f_count handling.

Fix up various conflicts due to later fsnotify work.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-12 14:23:04 -07:00
Eric Paris
1968f5eed5 fanotify: use both marks when possible
fanotify currently, when given a vfsmount_mark will look up (if it exists)
the corresponding inode mark.  This patch drops that lookup and uses the
mark provided.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 10:18:55 -04:00
Eric Paris
ce8f76fb73 fsnotify: pass both the vfsmount mark and inode mark
should_send_event() and handle_event() will both need to look up the inode
event if they get a vfsmount event.  Lets just pass both at the same time
since we have them both after walking the lists in lockstep.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 10:18:54 -04:00
Eric Paris
613a807fe7 fsnotify: walk the inode and vfsmount lists simultaneously
We currently walk the list of marks on an inode followed by the list of
marks on the vfsmount.  These are in order (by the memory address of the
group) so lets walk them both together.  Eventually we can pass both the
inode mark and the vfsmount mark to helpers simultaneously.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 10:18:54 -04:00
Eric Paris
84a5b68e8d fsnotify: rework ignored mark flushing
currently ignored_mark clearing is done in a seperate list traversal
before the actual list traversal to send events.  There is no need for
this.  Do them at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 10:18:54 -04:00
Eric Paris
02436668d9 fsnotify: remove global fsnotify groups lists
The global fsnotify groups lists were invented as a way to increase the
performance of fsnotify by shortcutting events which were not interesting.
With the changes to walk the object lists rather than global groups lists
these shortcuts are not useful.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 10:18:54 -04:00
Eric Paris
03930979af fsnotify: remove the global masks
Because we walk the object->fsnotify_marks list instead of the global
fsnotify groups list we don't need the fsnotify_inode_mask and
fsnotify_vfsmount_mask as these were simply shortcuts in fsnotify() for
performance.  They are now extra checks, rip them out.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 10:18:54 -04:00
Eric Paris
2612abb51b fsnotify: cleanup should_send_event
The change to use srcu and walk the object list rather than the global
fsnotify_group list means that should_send_event is no longer needed for a
number of groups and can be simplified for others.  Do that.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 10:18:53 -04:00
Eric Paris
3a9b16b407 fsnotify: send fsnotify_mark to groups in event handling functions
With the change of fsnotify to use srcu walking the marks list instead of
walking the global groups list we now know the mark in question.  The code can
send the mark to the group's handling functions and the groups won't have to
find those marks themselves.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 10:18:52 -04:00
Eric Paris
75c1be487a fsnotify: srcu to protect read side of inode and vfsmount locks
Currently reading the inode->i_fsnotify_marks or
vfsmount->mnt_fsnotify_marks lists are protected by a spinlock on both the
read and the write side.  This patch protects the read side of those lists
with a new single srcu.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 10:18:52 -04:00
Eric Paris
3bcf3860a4 fsnotify: store struct file not struct path
Al explains that calling dentry_open() with a mnt/dentry pair is only
garunteed to be safe if they are already used in an open struct file.  To
make sure this is the case don't store and use a struct path in fsnotify,
always use a struct file.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 10:18:51 -04:00
Eric Paris
5ba08e2eeb fsnotify: add pr_debug throughout
It can be hard to debug fsnotify since there are so few printks.  Use
pr_debug to allow for dynamic debugging.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 10:18:50 -04:00
Eric Paris
20dee624ca fsnotify: check to make sure all fsnotify bits are unique
This patch adds a check to make sure that all fsnotify bits are unique and we
cannot accidentally use the same bit for 2 different fsnotify event types.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 10:18:50 -04:00
Jean-Christophe Dubois
98b5c10d32 fanotify: do not always return 0 in fsnotify
It seems to me you are always returning 0 in fsnotify, when you should return
the error (EPERM) returned by fanotify.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe DUBOIS <jcd@tribudubois.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:59:02 -04:00
Eric Paris
c4ec54b40d fsnotify: new fsnotify hooks and events types for access decisions
introduce a new fsnotify hook, fsnotify_perm(), which is called from the
security code.  This hook is used to allow fsnotify groups to make access
control decisions about events on the system.  We also must change the
generic fsnotify function to return an error code if we intend these hooks
to be in any way useful.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:59:01 -04:00
Eric Paris
59b0df211b fsnotify: use unsigned char * for dentry->d_name.name
fsnotify was using char * when it passed around the d_name.name string
internally but it is actually an unsigned char *.  This patch switches
fsnotify to use unsigned and should silence some pointer signess warnings
which have popped out of xfs.  I do not add -Wpointer-sign to the fsnotify
code as there are still issues with kstrdup and strlen which would pop
out needless warnings.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:59:01 -04:00
Eric Paris
c908370fc1 fsnotify: allow ignored_mask to survive modification
Some inodes a group may want to never hear about a set of events even if
the inode is modified.  We add a new mark flag which indicates that these
marks should not have their ignored_mask cleared on modification.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:59:00 -04:00
Eric Paris
e898386146 fsnotify: clear ignored mask on modify
On inode modification we clear the ignored mask for all of the marks on the
inode.  This allows userspace to ignore accesses to inodes until there is
something different.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:59:00 -04:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
ca9c726eea fsnotify: Infrastructure for per-mount watches
Per-mount watches allow groups to listen to fsnotify events on an entire
mount.  This patch simply adds and initializes the fields needed in the
vfsmount struct to make this happen.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:57 -04:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
2504c5d63b fsnotify/vfsmount: add fsnotify fields to struct vfsmount
This patch adds the list and mask fields needed to support vfsmount marks.
These are the same fields fsnotify needs on an inode.  They are not used,
just declared and we note where the cleanup hook should be (the function is
not yet defined)

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:57 -04:00
Andreas Gruenbacher
72acc85442 fsnotify: kill FSNOTIFY_EVENT_FILE
Some fsnotify operations send a struct file.  This is more information than
we technically need.  We instead send a struct path in all cases instead of
sometimes a path and sometimes a file.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:53 -04:00
Eric Paris
3a9fb89f4c fsnotify: include vfsmount in should_send_event when appropriate
To ensure that a group will not duplicate events when it receives it based
on the vfsmount and the inode should_send_event test we should distinguish
those two cases.  We pass a vfsmount to this function so groups can make
their own determinations.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:52 -04:00
Eric Paris
7131485a93 fsnotify: mount point listeners list and global mask
currently all of the notification systems implemented select which inodes
they care about and receive messages only about those inodes (or the
children of those inodes.)  This patch begins to flesh out fsnotify support
for the concept of listeners that want to hear notification for an inode
accessed below a given monut point.  This patch implements a second list
of fsnotify groups to hold these types of groups and a second global mask
to hold the events of interest for this type of group.

The reason we want a second group list and mask is because the inode based
notification should_send_event support which makes each group look for a mark
on the given inode.  With one nfsmount listener that means that every group would
have to take the inode->i_lock, look for their mark, not find one, and return
for every operation.   By seperating vfsmount from inode listeners only when
there is a inode listener will the inode groups have to look for their
mark and take the inode lock.  vfsmount listeners will have to grab the lock and
look for a mark but there should be fewer of them, and one vfsmount listener
won't cause the i_lock to be grabbed and released for every fsnotify group
on every io operation.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:52 -04:00
Eric Paris
19c2a0e1a2 fsnotify: rename fsnotify_groups to fsnotify_inode_groups
Simple renaming patch.  fsnotify is about to support mount point listeners
so I am renaming fsnotify_groups and fsnotify_mask to indicate these are lists
used only for groups which have watches on inodes.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:51 -04:00
Eric Paris
28c60e37f8 fsnotify: send struct file when sending events to parents when possible
fanotify needs a path in order to open an fd to the object which changed.
Currently notifications to inode's parents are done using only the inode.
For some parental notification we have the entire file, send that so
fanotify can use it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:48 -04:00
Eric Paris
8112e2d6a7 fsnotify: include data in should_send calls
fanotify is going to need to look at file->private_data to know if an event
should be sent or not.  This passes the data (which might be a file,
dentry, inode, or none) to the should_send function calls so fanotify can
get that information when available

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:31 -04:00
Eric Paris
7b0a04fbfb fsnotify: provide the data type to should_send_event
fanotify is only interested in event types which contain enough information
to open the original file in the context of the fanotify listener.  Since
fanotify may not want to send events if that data isn't present we pass
the data type to the should_send_event function call so fanotify can express
its lack of interest.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28 09:58:31 -04:00
Tejun Heo
5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Eric Paris
f44aebcc56 inotify: use GFP_NOFS under potential memory pressure
inotify can have a watchs removed under filesystem reclaim.

=================================
[ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
2.6.31-rc2 #16
---------------------------------
inconsistent {IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} -> {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} usage.
khubd/217 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
 (iprune_mutex){+.+.?.}, at: [<c10ba899>] invalidate_inodes+0x20/0xe3
{IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} state was registered at:
  [<c10536ab>] __lock_acquire+0x2c9/0xac4
  [<c1053f45>] lock_acquire+0x9f/0xc2
  [<c1308872>] __mutex_lock_common+0x2d/0x323
  [<c1308c00>] mutex_lock_nested+0x2e/0x36
  [<c10ba6ff>] shrink_icache_memory+0x38/0x1b2
  [<c108bfb6>] shrink_slab+0xe2/0x13c
  [<c108c3e1>] kswapd+0x3d1/0x55d
  [<c10449b5>] kthread+0x66/0x6b
  [<c1003fdf>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
  [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

Two things are needed to fix this.  First we need a method to tell
fsnotify_create_event() to use GFP_NOFS and second we need to stop using
one global IN_IGNORED event and allocate them one at a time.  This solves
current issues with multiple IN_IGNORED on a queue having tail drop
problems and simplifies the allocations since we don't have to worry about
two tasks opperating on the IGNORED event concurrently.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-07-21 15:26:27 -04:00
Eric Paris
e42e27736d inotify/dnotify: should_send_event shouldn't match on FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD
inotify and dnotify will both indicate that they want any event which came
from a child inode.  The fix is to mask off FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD when deciding
if inotify or dnotify is interested in a given event.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-06-11 14:57:54 -04:00
Eric Paris
47882c6f51 fsnotify: add correlations between events
As part of the standard inotify events it includes a correlation cookie
between two dentry move operations.  This patch includes the same behaviour
in fsnotify events.  It is needed so that inotify userspace can be
implemented on top of fsnotify.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-06-11 14:57:54 -04:00
Eric Paris
62ffe5dfba fsnotify: include pathnames with entries when possible
When inotify wants to send events to a directory about a child it includes
the name of the original file.  This patch collects that filename and makes
it available for notification.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-06-11 14:57:53 -04:00
Eric Paris
c28f7e56e9 fsnotify: parent event notification
inotify and dnotify both use a similar parent notification mechanism.  We
add a generic parent notification mechanism to fsnotify for both of these
to use.  This new machanism also adds the dentry flag optimization which
exists for inotify to dnotify.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-06-11 14:57:53 -04:00
Eric Paris
3be25f49b9 fsnotify: add marks to inodes so groups can interpret how to handle those inodes
This patch creates a way for fsnotify groups to attach marks to inodes.
These marks have little meaning to the generic fsnotify infrastructure
and thus their meaning should be interpreted by the group that attached
them to the inode's list.

dnotify and inotify  will make use of these markings to indicate which
inodes are of interest to their respective groups.  But this implementation
has the useful property that in the future other listeners could actually
use the marks for the exact opposite reason, aka to indicate which inodes
it had NO interest in.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-06-11 14:57:53 -04:00
Eric Paris
90586523eb fsnotify: unified filesystem notification backend
fsnotify is a backend for filesystem notification.  fsnotify does
not provide any userspace interface but does provide the basis
needed for other notification schemes such as dnotify.  fsnotify
can be extended to be the backend for inotify or the upcoming
fanotify.  fsnotify provides a mechanism for "groups" to register for
some set of filesystem events and to then deliver those events to
those groups for processing.

fsnotify has a number of benefits, the first being actually shrinking the size
of an inode.  Before fsnotify to support both dnotify and inotify an inode had

        unsigned long           i_dnotify_mask; /* Directory notify events */
        struct dnotify_struct   *i_dnotify; /* for directory notifications */
        struct list_head        inotify_watches; /* watches on this inode */
        struct mutex            inotify_mutex;  /* protects the watches list

But with fsnotify this same functionallity (and more) is done with just

        __u32                   i_fsnotify_mask; /* all events for this inode */
        struct hlist_head       i_fsnotify_mark_entries; /* marks on this inode */

That's right, inotify, dnotify, and fanotify all in 64 bits.  We used that
much space just in inotify_watches alone, before this patch set.

fsnotify object lifetime and locking is MUCH better than what we have today.
inotify locking is incredibly complex.  See 8f7b0ba1c8 as an example of
what's been busted since inception.  inotify needs to know internal semantics
of superblock destruction and unmounting to function.  The inode pinning and
vfs contortions are horrible.

no fsnotify implementers do allocation under locks.  This means things like
f04b30de3 which (due to an overabundance of caution) changes GFP_KERNEL to
GFP_NOFS can be reverted.  There are no longer any allocation rules when using
or implementing your own fsnotify listener.

fsnotify paves the way for fanotify.  In brief fanotify is a notification
mechanism that delivers the lisener both an 'event' and an open file descriptor
to the object in question.  This means that fanotify is pathname agnostic.
Some on lkml may not care for the original companies or users that pushed for
TALPA, but fanotify was designed with flexibility and input for other users in
mind.  The readahead group expressed interest in fanotify as it could be used
to profile disk access on boot without breaking the audit system.  The desktop
search groups have also expressed interest in fanotify as it solves a number
of the race conditions and problems present with managing inotify when more
than a limited number of specific files are of interest.  fanotify can provide
for a userspace access control system which makes it a clean interface for AV
vendors to hook without trying to do binary patching on the syscall table,
LSM, and everywhere else they do their things today.  With this patch series
fanotify can be implemented in less than 1200 lines of easy to review code.
Almost all of which is the socket based user interface.

This patch series builds fsnotify to the point that it can implement
dnotify and inotify_user.  Patches exist and will be sent soon after
acceptance to finish the in kernel inotify conversion (audit) and implement
fanotify.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-06-11 14:57:52 -04:00