dnotify: reimplement dnotify using fsnotify
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1/*
2 * Filesystem access notification for Linux
3 *
4 * Copyright (C) 2008 Red Hat, Inc., Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
5 */
6
7#ifndef __LINUX_FSNOTIFY_BACKEND_H
8#define __LINUX_FSNOTIFY_BACKEND_H
9
10#ifdef __KERNEL__
11
12#include <linux/fs.h> /* struct inode */
13#include <linux/list.h>
14#include <linux/path.h> /* struct path */
15#include <linux/spinlock.h>
16#include <linux/types.h>
17
18#include <asm/atomic.h>
19
20/*
21 * IN_* from inotfy.h lines up EXACTLY with FS_*, this is so we can easily
22 * convert between them. dnotify only needs conversion at watch creation
23 * so no perf loss there. fanotify isn't defined yet, so it can use the
24 * wholes if it needs more events.
25 */
26#define FS_ACCESS 0x00000001 /* File was accessed */
27#define FS_MODIFY 0x00000002 /* File was modified */
28#define FS_ATTRIB 0x00000004 /* Metadata changed */
29#define FS_CLOSE_WRITE 0x00000008 /* Writtable file was closed */
30#define FS_CLOSE_NOWRITE 0x00000010 /* Unwrittable file closed */
31#define FS_OPEN 0x00000020 /* File was opened */
32#define FS_MOVED_FROM 0x00000040 /* File was moved from X */
33#define FS_MOVED_TO 0x00000080 /* File was moved to Y */
34#define FS_CREATE 0x00000100 /* Subfile was created */
35#define FS_DELETE 0x00000200 /* Subfile was deleted */
36#define FS_DELETE_SELF 0x00000400 /* Self was deleted */
37#define FS_MOVE_SELF 0x00000800 /* Self was moved */
38
39#define FS_UNMOUNT 0x00002000 /* inode on umount fs */
40#define FS_Q_OVERFLOW 0x00004000 /* Event queued overflowed */
41#define FS_IN_IGNORED 0x00008000 /* last inotify event here */
42
43#define FS_IN_ISDIR 0x40000000 /* event occurred against dir */
44#define FS_IN_ONESHOT 0x80000000 /* only send event once */
45
46#define FS_DN_RENAME 0x10000000 /* file renamed */
47#define FS_DN_MULTISHOT 0x20000000 /* dnotify multishot */
48
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49/* This inode cares about things that happen to its children. Always set for
50 * dnotify and inotify. */
51#define FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD 0x08000000
52
53/* This is a list of all events that may get sent to a parernt based on fs event
54 * happening to inodes inside that directory */
55#define FS_EVENTS_POSS_ON_CHILD (FS_ACCESS | FS_MODIFY | FS_ATTRIB |\
56 FS_CLOSE_WRITE | FS_CLOSE_NOWRITE | FS_OPEN |\
57 FS_MOVED_FROM | FS_MOVED_TO | FS_CREATE |\
58 FS_DELETE)
59
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60/* listeners that hard code group numbers near the top */
61#define DNOTIFY_GROUP_NUM UINT_MAX
62
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63struct fsnotify_group;
64struct fsnotify_event;
3be25f49 65struct fsnotify_mark_entry;
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66
67/*
68 * Each group much define these ops. The fsnotify infrastructure will call
69 * these operations for each relevant group.
70 *
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71 * should_send_event - given a group, inode, and mask this function determines
72 * if the group is interested in this event.
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73 * handle_event - main call for a group to handle an fs event
74 * free_group_priv - called when a group refcnt hits 0 to clean up the private union
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75 * freeing-mark - this means that a mark has been flagged to die when everything
76 * finishes using it. The function is supplied with what must be a
77 * valid group and inode to use to clean up.
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78 */
79struct fsnotify_ops {
3be25f49 80 bool (*should_send_event)(struct fsnotify_group *group, struct inode *inode, __u32 mask);
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81 int (*handle_event)(struct fsnotify_group *group, struct fsnotify_event *event);
82 void (*free_group_priv)(struct fsnotify_group *group);
3be25f49 83 void (*freeing_mark)(struct fsnotify_mark_entry *entry, struct fsnotify_group *group);
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84};
85
86/*
87 * A group is a "thing" that wants to receive notification about filesystem
88 * events. The mask holds the subset of event types this group cares about.
89 * refcnt on a group is up to the implementor and at any moment if it goes 0
90 * everything will be cleaned up.
91 */
92struct fsnotify_group {
93 /*
94 * global list of all groups receiving events from fsnotify.
95 * anchored by fsnotify_groups and protected by either fsnotify_grp_mutex
96 * or fsnotify_grp_srcu depending on write vs read.
97 */
98 struct list_head group_list;
99
100 /*
101 * Defines all of the event types in which this group is interested.
102 * This mask is a bitwise OR of the FS_* events from above. Each time
103 * this mask changes for a group (if it changes) the correct functions
104 * must be called to update the global structures which indicate global
105 * interest in event types.
106 */
107 __u32 mask;
108
109 /*
110 * How the refcnt is used is up to each group. When the refcnt hits 0
111 * fsnotify will clean up all of the resources associated with this group.
112 * As an example, the dnotify group will always have a refcnt=1 and that
113 * will never change. Inotify, on the other hand, has a group per
114 * inotify_init() and the refcnt will hit 0 only when that fd has been
115 * closed.
116 */
117 atomic_t refcnt; /* things with interest in this group */
118 unsigned int group_num; /* simply prevents accidental group collision */
119
120 const struct fsnotify_ops *ops; /* how this group handles things */
121
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122 /* stores all fastapth entries assoc with this group so they can be cleaned on unregister */
123 spinlock_t mark_lock; /* protect mark_entries list */
124 atomic_t num_marks; /* 1 for each mark entry and 1 for not being
125 * past the point of no return when freeing
126 * a group */
127 struct list_head mark_entries; /* all inode mark entries for this group */
128
129 /* prevents double list_del of group_list. protected by global fsnotify_grp_mutex */
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130 bool on_group_list;
131
132 /* groups can define private fields here or use the void *private */
133 union {
134 void *private;
135 };
136};
137
138/*
139 * all of the information about the original object we want to now send to
140 * a group. If you want to carry more info from the accessing task to the
141 * listener this structure is where you need to be adding fields.
142 */
143struct fsnotify_event {
144 spinlock_t lock; /* protection for the associated event_holder and private_list */
145 /* to_tell may ONLY be dereferenced during handle_event(). */
146 struct inode *to_tell; /* either the inode the event happened to or its parent */
147 /*
148 * depending on the event type we should have either a path or inode
149 * We hold a reference on path, but NOT on inode. Since we have the ref on
150 * the path, it may be dereferenced at any point during this object's
151 * lifetime. That reference is dropped when this object's refcnt hits
152 * 0. If this event contains an inode instead of a path, the inode may
153 * ONLY be used during handle_event().
154 */
155 union {
156 struct path path;
157 struct inode *inode;
158 };
159/* when calling fsnotify tell it if the data is a path or inode */
160#define FSNOTIFY_EVENT_NONE 0
161#define FSNOTIFY_EVENT_PATH 1
162#define FSNOTIFY_EVENT_INODE 2
163#define FSNOTIFY_EVENT_FILE 3
164 int data_type; /* which of the above union we have */
165 atomic_t refcnt; /* how many groups still are using/need to send this event */
166 __u32 mask; /* the type of access, bitwise OR for FS_* event types */
167};
168
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169/*
170 * a mark is simply an entry attached to an in core inode which allows an
171 * fsnotify listener to indicate they are either no longer interested in events
172 * of a type matching mask or only interested in those events.
173 *
174 * these are flushed when an inode is evicted from core and may be flushed
175 * when the inode is modified (as seen by fsnotify_access). Some fsnotify users
176 * (such as dnotify) will flush these when the open fd is closed and not at
177 * inode eviction or modification.
178 */
179struct fsnotify_mark_entry {
180 __u32 mask; /* mask this mark entry is for */
181 /* we hold ref for each i_list and g_list. also one ref for each 'thing'
182 * in kernel that found and may be using this mark. */
183 atomic_t refcnt; /* active things looking at this mark */
184 struct inode *inode; /* inode this entry is associated with */
185 struct fsnotify_group *group; /* group this mark entry is for */
186 struct hlist_node i_list; /* list of mark_entries by inode->i_fsnotify_mark_entries */
187 struct list_head g_list; /* list of mark_entries by group->i_fsnotify_mark_entries */
188 spinlock_t lock; /* protect group, inode, and killme */
189 struct list_head free_i_list; /* tmp list used when freeing this mark */
190 struct list_head free_g_list; /* tmp list used when freeing this mark */
191 void (*free_mark)(struct fsnotify_mark_entry *entry); /* called on final put+free */
192};
193
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194#ifdef CONFIG_FSNOTIFY
195
196/* called from the vfs helpers */
197
198/* main fsnotify call to send events */
199extern void fsnotify(struct inode *to_tell, __u32 mask, void *data, int data_is);
c28f7e56 200extern void __fsnotify_parent(struct dentry *dentry, __u32 mask);
3be25f49 201extern void __fsnotify_inode_delete(struct inode *inode);
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203static inline int fsnotify_inode_watches_children(struct inode *inode)
204{
205 /* FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD is set if the inode may care */
206 if (!(inode->i_fsnotify_mask & FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD))
207 return 0;
208 /* this inode might care about child events, does it care about the
209 * specific set of events that can happen on a child? */
210 return inode->i_fsnotify_mask & FS_EVENTS_POSS_ON_CHILD;
211}
212
213/*
214 * Update the dentry with a flag indicating the interest of its parent to receive
215 * filesystem events when those events happens to this dentry->d_inode.
216 */
217static inline void __fsnotify_update_dcache_flags(struct dentry *dentry)
218{
219 struct dentry *parent;
220
221 assert_spin_locked(&dcache_lock);
222 assert_spin_locked(&dentry->d_lock);
223
224 parent = dentry->d_parent;
225 if (fsnotify_inode_watches_children(parent->d_inode))
226 dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_FSNOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED;
227 else
228 dentry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_FSNOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED;
229}
230
231/*
232 * fsnotify_d_instantiate - instantiate a dentry for inode
233 * Called with dcache_lock held.
234 */
235static inline void __fsnotify_d_instantiate(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode)
236{
237 if (!inode)
238 return;
239
240 assert_spin_locked(&dcache_lock);
241
242 spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
243 __fsnotify_update_dcache_flags(dentry);
244 spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
245}
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246
247/* called from fsnotify listeners, such as fanotify or dnotify */
248
249/* must call when a group changes its ->mask */
250extern void fsnotify_recalc_global_mask(void);
251/* get a reference to an existing or create a new group */
252extern struct fsnotify_group *fsnotify_obtain_group(unsigned int group_num,
253 __u32 mask,
254 const struct fsnotify_ops *ops);
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255/* run all marks associated with this group and update group->mask */
256extern void fsnotify_recalc_group_mask(struct fsnotify_group *group);
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257/* drop reference on a group from fsnotify_obtain_group */
258extern void fsnotify_put_group(struct fsnotify_group *group);
259
260/* take a reference to an event */
261extern void fsnotify_get_event(struct fsnotify_event *event);
262extern void fsnotify_put_event(struct fsnotify_event *event);
263/* find private data previously attached to an event */
264extern struct fsnotify_event_private_data *fsnotify_get_priv_from_event(struct fsnotify_group *group,
265 struct fsnotify_event *event);
266
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267/* functions used to manipulate the marks attached to inodes */
268
269/* run all marks associated with an inode and update inode->i_fsnotify_mask */
270extern void fsnotify_recalc_inode_mask(struct inode *inode);
271extern void fsnotify_init_mark(struct fsnotify_mark_entry *entry, void (*free_mark)(struct fsnotify_mark_entry *entry));
272/* find (and take a reference) to a mark associated with group and inode */
273extern struct fsnotify_mark_entry *fsnotify_find_mark_entry(struct fsnotify_group *group, struct inode *inode);
274/* attach the mark to both the group and the inode */
275extern int fsnotify_add_mark(struct fsnotify_mark_entry *entry, struct fsnotify_group *group, struct inode *inode);
276/* given a mark, flag it to be freed when all references are dropped */
277extern void fsnotify_destroy_mark_by_entry(struct fsnotify_mark_entry *entry);
278/* run all the marks in a group, and flag them to be freed */
279extern void fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group(struct fsnotify_group *group);
280extern void fsnotify_get_mark(struct fsnotify_mark_entry *entry);
281extern void fsnotify_put_mark(struct fsnotify_mark_entry *entry);
282
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283/* put here because inotify does some weird stuff when destroying watches */
284extern struct fsnotify_event *fsnotify_create_event(struct inode *to_tell, __u32 mask,
285 void *data, int data_is);
286#else
287
288static inline void fsnotify(struct inode *to_tell, __u32 mask, void *data, int data_is)
289{}
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291static inline void __fsnotify_parent(struct dentry *dentry, __u32 mask)
292{}
293
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294static inline void __fsnotify_inode_delete(struct inode *inode)
295{}
296
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297static inline void __fsnotify_update_dcache_flags(struct dentry *dentry)
298{}
299
300static inline void __fsnotify_d_instantiate(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode)
301{}
302
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303#endif /* CONFIG_FSNOTIFY */
304
305#endif /* __KERNEL __ */
306
307#endif /* __LINUX_FSNOTIFY_BACKEND_H */
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