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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/notify/group.c, branch v3.0.41</title>
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<title>fsnotify: remove global fsnotify groups lists</title>
<updated>2010-07-28T14:18:54+00:00</updated>
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<name>Eric Paris</name>
<email>eparis@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2010-07-28T14:18:39+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
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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 &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>fsnotify: remove group-&gt;mask</title>
<updated>2010-07-28T14:18:54+00:00</updated>
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<name>Eric Paris</name>
<email>eparis@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2010-07-28T14:18:39+00:00</published>
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group-&gt;mask is now useless.  It was originally a shortcut for fsnotify to
save on performance.  These checks are now redundant, so we remove them.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
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group-&gt;mask is now useless.  It was originally a shortcut for fsnotify to
save on performance.  These checks are now redundant, so we remove them.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>fsnotify: remove the global masks</title>
<updated>2010-07-28T14:18:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Paris</name>
<email>eparis@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2010-07-28T14:18:39+00:00</published>
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Because we walk the object-&gt;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 &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
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Because we walk the object-&gt;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 &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>fsnotify: srcu to protect read side of inode and vfsmount locks</title>
<updated>2010-07-28T14:18:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Paris</name>
<email>eparis@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2010-07-28T14:18:38+00:00</published>
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Currently reading the inode-&gt;i_fsnotify_marks or
vfsmount-&gt;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 &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
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Currently reading the inode-&gt;i_fsnotify_marks or
vfsmount-&gt;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 &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fanotify: drop the useless priority argument</title>
<updated>2010-07-28T13:59:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Paris</name>
<email>eparis@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-27T13:41:40+00:00</published>
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The priority argument in fanotify is useless.  Kill it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
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The priority argument in fanotify is useless.  Kill it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>fsnotify: add group priorities</title>
<updated>2010-07-28T13:59:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Paris</name>
<email>eparis@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-18T02:24:34+00:00</published>
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This introduces an ordering to fsnotify groups.  With purely asynchronous
notification based "things" implementing fsnotify (inotify, dnotify) ordering
isn't particularly important.  But if people want to use fsnotify for the
basis of sycronous notification or blocking notification ordering becomes
important.

eg. A Hierarchical Storage Management listener would need to get its event
before an AV scanner could get its event (since the HSM would need to
bring the data in for the AV scanner to scan.)  Typically asynchronous notification
would want to run after the AV scanner made any relevant access decisions
so as to not send notification about an event that was denied.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
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This introduces an ordering to fsnotify groups.  With purely asynchronous
notification based "things" implementing fsnotify (inotify, dnotify) ordering
isn't particularly important.  But if people want to use fsnotify for the
basis of sycronous notification or blocking notification ordering becomes
important.

eg. A Hierarchical Storage Management listener would need to get its event
before an AV scanner could get its event (since the HSM would need to
bring the data in for the AV scanner to scan.)  Typically asynchronous notification
would want to run after the AV scanner made any relevant access decisions
so as to not send notification about an event that was denied.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>fsnotify: rename mark_entry to just mark</title>
<updated>2010-07-28T13:58:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Paris</name>
<email>eparis@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2009-12-18T02:24:24+00:00</published>
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previously I used mark_entry when talking about marks on inodes.  The
_entry is pretty useless.  Just use "mark" instead.

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previously I used mark_entry when talking about marks on inodes.  The
_entry is pretty useless.  Just use "mark" instead.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>fsnotify: rename fsnotify_mark_entry to just fsnotify_mark</title>
<updated>2010-07-28T13:58:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Paris</name>
<email>eparis@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-18T02:24:24+00:00</published>
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The name is long and it serves no real purpose.  So rename
fsnotify_mark_entry to just fsnotify_mark.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
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The name is long and it serves no real purpose.  So rename
fsnotify_mark_entry to just fsnotify_mark.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>fsnotify: mount point listeners list and global mask</title>
<updated>2010-07-28T13:58:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Paris</name>
<email>eparis@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-18T02:24:23+00:00</published>
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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-&gt;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 &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
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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-&gt;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 &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>fsnotify: add groups to fsnotify_inode_groups when registering inode watch</title>
<updated>2010-07-28T13:58:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Paris</name>
<email>eparis@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-18T02:24:23+00:00</published>
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Currently all fsnotify groups are added immediately to the
fsnotify_inode_groups list upon creation.  This means, even groups with no
watches (common for audit) will be on the global tracking list and will
get checked for every event.  This patch adds groups to the global list on
when the first inode mark is added to the group.

Signed-of-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
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Currently all fsnotify groups are added immediately to the
fsnotify_inode_groups list upon creation.  This means, even groups with no
watches (common for audit) will be on the global tracking list and will
get checked for every event.  This patch adds groups to the global list on
when the first inode mark is added to the group.

Signed-of-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
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