2 * Filesystem access notification for Linux
4 * Copyright (C) 2008 Red Hat, Inc., Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
7 #ifndef __LINUX_FSNOTIFY_BACKEND_H
8 #define __LINUX_FSNOTIFY_BACKEND_H
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>
18 #include <asm/atomic.h>
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.
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 */
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 */
43 #define FS_IN_ISDIR 0x40000000 /* event occurred against dir */
44 #define FS_IN_ONESHOT 0x80000000 /* only send event once */
46 #define FS_DN_RENAME 0x10000000 /* file renamed */
47 #define FS_DN_MULTISHOT 0x20000000 /* dnotify multishot */
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
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 |\
60 /* listeners that hard code group numbers near the top */
61 #define DNOTIFY_GROUP_NUM UINT_MAX
63 struct fsnotify_group
;
64 struct fsnotify_event
;
65 struct fsnotify_mark_entry
;
68 * Each group much define these ops. The fsnotify infrastructure will call
69 * these operations for each relevant group.
71 * should_send_event - given a group, inode, and mask this function determines
72 * if the group is interested in this event.
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
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.
80 bool (*should_send_event
)(struct fsnotify_group
*group
, struct inode
*inode
, __u32 mask
);
81 int (*handle_event
)(struct fsnotify_group
*group
, struct fsnotify_event
*event
);
82 void (*free_group_priv
)(struct fsnotify_group
*group
);
83 void (*freeing_mark
)(struct fsnotify_mark_entry
*entry
, struct fsnotify_group
*group
);
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.
92 struct fsnotify_group
{
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.
98 struct list_head group_list
;
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.
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
117 atomic_t refcnt
; /* things with interest in this group */
118 unsigned int group_num
; /* simply prevents accidental group collision */
120 const struct fsnotify_ops
*ops
; /* how this group handles things */
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
127 struct list_head mark_entries
; /* all inode mark entries for this group */
129 /* prevents double list_del of group_list. protected by global fsnotify_grp_mutex */
132 /* groups can define private fields here or use the void *private */
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.
143 struct 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 */
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().
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 */
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.
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.
179 struct 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 */
194 #ifdef CONFIG_FSNOTIFY
196 /* called from the vfs helpers */
198 /* main fsnotify call to send events */
199 extern void fsnotify(struct inode
*to_tell
, __u32 mask
, void *data
, int data_is
);
200 extern void __fsnotify_parent(struct dentry
*dentry
, __u32 mask
);
201 extern void __fsnotify_inode_delete(struct inode
*inode
);
203 static inline int fsnotify_inode_watches_children(struct inode
*inode
)
205 /* FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD is set if the inode may care */
206 if (!(inode
->i_fsnotify_mask
& FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD
))
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
;
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.
217 static inline void __fsnotify_update_dcache_flags(struct dentry
*dentry
)
219 struct dentry
*parent
;
221 assert_spin_locked(&dcache_lock
);
222 assert_spin_locked(&dentry
->d_lock
);
224 parent
= dentry
->d_parent
;
225 if (fsnotify_inode_watches_children(parent
->d_inode
))
226 dentry
->d_flags
|= DCACHE_FSNOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED
;
228 dentry
->d_flags
&= ~DCACHE_FSNOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED
;
232 * fsnotify_d_instantiate - instantiate a dentry for inode
233 * Called with dcache_lock held.
235 static inline void __fsnotify_d_instantiate(struct dentry
*dentry
, struct inode
*inode
)
240 assert_spin_locked(&dcache_lock
);
242 spin_lock(&dentry
->d_lock
);
243 __fsnotify_update_dcache_flags(dentry
);
244 spin_unlock(&dentry
->d_lock
);
247 /* called from fsnotify listeners, such as fanotify or dnotify */
249 /* must call when a group changes its ->mask */
250 extern void fsnotify_recalc_global_mask(void);
251 /* get a reference to an existing or create a new group */
252 extern struct fsnotify_group
*fsnotify_obtain_group(unsigned int group_num
,
254 const struct fsnotify_ops
*ops
);
255 /* run all marks associated with this group and update group->mask */
256 extern void fsnotify_recalc_group_mask(struct fsnotify_group
*group
);
257 /* drop reference on a group from fsnotify_obtain_group */
258 extern void fsnotify_put_group(struct fsnotify_group
*group
);
260 /* take a reference to an event */
261 extern void fsnotify_get_event(struct fsnotify_event
*event
);
262 extern void fsnotify_put_event(struct fsnotify_event
*event
);
263 /* find private data previously attached to an event */
264 extern struct fsnotify_event_private_data
*fsnotify_get_priv_from_event(struct fsnotify_group
*group
,
265 struct fsnotify_event
*event
);
267 /* functions used to manipulate the marks attached to inodes */
269 /* run all marks associated with an inode and update inode->i_fsnotify_mask */
270 extern void fsnotify_recalc_inode_mask(struct inode
*inode
);
271 extern 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 */
273 extern 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 */
275 extern 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 */
277 extern 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 */
279 extern void fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group(struct fsnotify_group
*group
);
280 extern void fsnotify_get_mark(struct fsnotify_mark_entry
*entry
);
281 extern void fsnotify_put_mark(struct fsnotify_mark_entry
*entry
);
283 /* put here because inotify does some weird stuff when destroying watches */
284 extern struct fsnotify_event
*fsnotify_create_event(struct inode
*to_tell
, __u32 mask
,
285 void *data
, int data_is
);
288 static inline void fsnotify(struct inode
*to_tell
, __u32 mask
, void *data
, int data_is
)
291 static inline void __fsnotify_parent(struct dentry
*dentry
, __u32 mask
)
294 static inline void __fsnotify_inode_delete(struct inode
*inode
)
297 static inline void __fsnotify_update_dcache_flags(struct dentry
*dentry
)
300 static inline void __fsnotify_d_instantiate(struct dentry
*dentry
, struct inode
*inode
)
303 #endif /* CONFIG_FSNOTIFY */
305 #endif /* __KERNEL __ */
307 #endif /* __LINUX_FSNOTIFY_BACKEND_H */