1. 12 6月, 2009 4 次提交
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      dnotify: reimplement dnotify using fsnotify · 3c5119c0
      Eric Paris 提交于
      Reimplement dnotify using fsnotify.
      Signed-off-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      3c5119c0
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      fsnotify: parent event notification · c28f7e56
      Eric Paris 提交于
      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: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      c28f7e56
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      fsnotify: add marks to inodes so groups can interpret how to handle those inodes · 3be25f49
      Eric Paris 提交于
      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: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      3be25f49
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      fsnotify: unified filesystem notification backend · 90586523
      Eric Paris 提交于
      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 8f7b0ba1 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
      f04b30de 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: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      90586523
  2. 21 10月, 2008 1 次提交
  3. 30 4月, 2008 1 次提交
  4. 07 2月, 2008 1 次提交
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      inotify: send IN_ATTRIB events when link count changes · ece95912
      Jan Kara 提交于
      Currently, no notification event has been sent when inode's link count
      changed.  This is inconvenient for the application in some cases:
      
      Suppose you have the following directory structure
      
          foo/test
          bar/
      
      and you watch test.  If someone does "mv foo/test bar/", you get event
      IN_MOVE_SELF and you know something has happened with the file "test".
      However if someone does "ln foo/test bar/test" and "rm foo/test" you get no
      inotify event for the file "test" (only directories "foo" and "bar" receive
      events).
      
      Furthermore it could be argued that link count belongs to file's metadata and
      thus IN_ATTRIB should be sent when it changes.
      
      The following patch implements sending of IN_ATTRIB inotify events when link
      count of the inode changes, i.e., when a hardlink to the inode is created or
      when it is removed.  This event is sent in addition to all the events sent so
      far.  In particular, when a last link to a file is removed, IN_ATTRIB event is
      sent in addition to IN_DELETE_SELF event.
      Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Acked-by: NMorten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
      Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com>
      Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
      Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ece95912
  5. 21 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  6. 09 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  7. 03 8月, 2006 1 次提交
  8. 20 6月, 2006 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] log more info for directory entry change events · 9c937dcc
      Amy Griffis 提交于
      When an audit event involves changes to a directory entry, include
      a PATH record for the directory itself.  A few other notable changes:
      
          - fixed audit_inode_child() hooks in fsnotify_move()
          - removed unused flags arg from audit_inode()
          - added audit log routines for logging a portion of a string
      
      Here's some sample output.
      
      before patch:
      type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1149821605.320:26): arch=40000003 syscall=39 success=yes exit=0 a0=bf8d3c7c a1=1ff a2=804e1b8 a3=bf8d3c7c items=1 ppid=739 pid=800 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=ttyS0 comm="mkdir" exe="/bin/mkdir" subj=root:system_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c255
      type=CWD msg=audit(1149821605.320:26):  cwd="/root"
      type=PATH msg=audit(1149821605.320:26): item=0 name="foo" parent=164068 inode=164010 dev=03:00 mode=040755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=root:object_r:user_home_t:s0
      
      after patch:
      type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1149822032.332:24): arch=40000003 syscall=39 success=yes exit=0 a0=bfdd9c7c a1=1ff a2=804e1b8 a3=bfdd9c7c items=2 ppid=714 pid=777 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=ttyS0 comm="mkdir" exe="/bin/mkdir" subj=root:system_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c255
      type=CWD msg=audit(1149822032.332:24):  cwd="/root"
      type=PATH msg=audit(1149822032.332:24): item=0 name="/root" inode=164068 dev=03:00 mode=040750 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=root:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0
      type=PATH msg=audit(1149822032.332:24): item=1 name="foo" inode=164010 dev=03:00 mode=040755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=root:object_r:user_home_t:s0
      Signed-off-by: NAmy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      9c937dcc
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      [PATCH] inotify (2/5): add name's inode to event handler · 7c297722
      Amy Griffis 提交于
      When an inotify event includes a dentry name, also include the inode
      associated with that name.
      Signed-off-by: NAmy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>
      Acked-by: NRobert Love <rml@novell.com>
      Acked-by: NJohn McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      7c297722
  9. 26 3月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] inotify: lock avoidance with parent watch status in dentry · c32ccd87
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      Previous inotify work avoidance is good when inotify is completely unused,
      but it breaks down if even a single watch is in place anywhere in the
      system.  Robin Holt notices that udev is one such culprit - it slows down a
      512-thread application on a 512 CPU system from 6 seconds to 22 minutes.
      
      Solve this by adding a flag in the dentry that tells inotify whether or not
      its parent inode has a watch on it.  Event queueing to parent will skip
      taking locks if this flag is cleared.  Setting and clearing of this flag on
      all child dentries versus event delivery: this is no in terms of race
      cases, and that was shown to be equivalent to always performing the check.
      
      The essential behaviour is that activity occuring _after_ a watch has been
      added and _before_ it has been removed, will generate events.
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Cc: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
      Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      c32ccd87
  10. 21 3月, 2006 2 次提交
  11. 16 8月, 2005 1 次提交
  12. 09 8月, 2005 2 次提交
  13. 05 8月, 2005 1 次提交
  14. 02 8月, 2005 1 次提交
  15. 14 7月, 2005 1 次提交
  16. 13 7月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] inotify · 0eeca283
      Robert Love 提交于
      inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly
      its inability to scale and its terrible user interface:
      
              * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory
                that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many
                open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.
              * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to
                directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects
                the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of
                stat structures.
              * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful.  Signals?
      
      inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change
      notification:
      
              * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.
      	  You get a single fd, which is select()-able.
              * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item
                you were watching is on was unmounted."
              * inotify can watch directories or files.
      
      Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),
      Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.
      
      See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.
      Signed-off-by: NRobert Love <rml@novell.com>
      Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      0eeca283