[PATCH] inotify

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: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 248 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify.h b/include/linux/fsnotify.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eb581b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/fsnotify.h
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+#ifndef _LINUX_FS_NOTIFY_H
+#define _LINUX_FS_NOTIFY_H
+
+/*
+ * include/linux/fsnotify.h - generic hooks for filesystem notification, to
+ * reduce in-source duplication from both dnotify and inotify.
+ *
+ * We don't compile any of this away in some complicated menagerie of ifdefs.
+ * Instead, we rely on the code inside to optimize away as needed.
+ *
+ * (C) Copyright 2005 Robert Love
+ */
+
+#ifdef __KERNEL__
+
+#include <linux/dnotify.h>
+#include <linux/inotify.h>
+
+/*
+ * fsnotify_move - file old_name at old_dir was moved to new_name at new_dir
+ */
+static inline void fsnotify_move(struct inode *old_dir, struct inode *new_dir,
+				 const char *old_name, const char *new_name,
+				 int isdir)
+{
+	u32 cookie = inotify_get_cookie();
+
+	if (old_dir == new_dir)
+		inode_dir_notify(old_dir, DN_RENAME);
+	else {
+		inode_dir_notify(old_dir, DN_DELETE);
+		inode_dir_notify(new_dir, DN_CREATE);
+	}
+
+	if (isdir)
+		isdir = IN_ISDIR;
+	inotify_inode_queue_event(old_dir, IN_MOVED_FROM|isdir,cookie,old_name);
+	inotify_inode_queue_event(new_dir, IN_MOVED_TO|isdir, cookie, new_name);
+}
+
+/*
+ * fsnotify_unlink - file was unlinked
+ */
+static inline void fsnotify_unlink(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *dir)
+{
+	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
+
+	inode_dir_notify(dir, DN_DELETE);
+	inotify_inode_queue_event(dir, IN_DELETE, 0, dentry->d_name.name);
+	inotify_inode_queue_event(inode, IN_DELETE_SELF, 0, NULL);
+
+	inotify_inode_is_dead(inode);
+}
+
+/*
+ * fsnotify_rmdir - directory was removed
+ */
+static inline void fsnotify_rmdir(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode,
+				  struct inode *dir)
+{
+	inode_dir_notify(dir, DN_DELETE);
+	inotify_inode_queue_event(dir,IN_DELETE|IN_ISDIR,0,dentry->d_name.name);
+	inotify_inode_queue_event(inode, IN_DELETE_SELF | IN_ISDIR, 0, NULL);
+	inotify_inode_is_dead(inode);
+}
+
+/*
+ * fsnotify_create - 'name' was linked in
+ */
+static inline void fsnotify_create(struct inode *inode, const char *name)
+{
+	inode_dir_notify(inode, DN_CREATE);
+	inotify_inode_queue_event(inode, IN_CREATE, 0, name);
+}
+
+/*
+ * fsnotify_mkdir - directory 'name' was created
+ */
+static inline void fsnotify_mkdir(struct inode *inode, const char *name)
+{
+	inode_dir_notify(inode, DN_CREATE);
+	inotify_inode_queue_event(inode, IN_CREATE | IN_ISDIR, 0, name);
+}
+
+/*
+ * fsnotify_access - file was read
+ */
+static inline void fsnotify_access(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
+	u32 mask = IN_ACCESS;
+
+	if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
+		mask |= IN_ISDIR;
+
+	dnotify_parent(dentry, DN_ACCESS);
+	inotify_dentry_parent_queue_event(dentry, mask, 0, dentry->d_name.name);
+	inotify_inode_queue_event(inode, mask, 0, NULL);
+}
+
+/*
+ * fsnotify_modify - file was modified
+ */
+static inline void fsnotify_modify(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
+	u32 mask = IN_MODIFY;
+
+	if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
+		mask |= IN_ISDIR;
+
+	dnotify_parent(dentry, DN_MODIFY);
+	inotify_dentry_parent_queue_event(dentry, mask, 0, dentry->d_name.name);
+	inotify_inode_queue_event(inode, mask, 0, NULL);
+}
+
+/*
+ * fsnotify_open - file was opened
+ */
+static inline void fsnotify_open(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
+	u32 mask = IN_OPEN;
+
+	if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
+		mask |= IN_ISDIR;
+
+	inotify_inode_queue_event(inode, mask, 0, NULL);
+	inotify_dentry_parent_queue_event(dentry, mask, 0, dentry->d_name.name);
+}
+
+/*
+ * fsnotify_close - file was closed
+ */
+static inline void fsnotify_close(struct file *file)
+{
+	struct dentry *dentry = file->f_dentry;
+	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
+	const char *name = dentry->d_name.name;
+	mode_t mode = file->f_mode;
+	u32 mask = (mode & FMODE_WRITE) ? IN_CLOSE_WRITE : IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE;
+
+	if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
+		mask |= IN_ISDIR;
+
+	inotify_dentry_parent_queue_event(dentry, mask, 0, name);
+	inotify_inode_queue_event(inode, mask, 0, NULL);
+}
+
+/*
+ * fsnotify_xattr - extended attributes were changed
+ */
+static inline void fsnotify_xattr(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
+	u32 mask = IN_ATTRIB;
+
+	if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
+		mask |= IN_ISDIR;
+
+	inotify_dentry_parent_queue_event(dentry, mask, 0, dentry->d_name.name);
+	inotify_inode_queue_event(inode, mask, 0, NULL);
+}
+
+/*
+ * fsnotify_change - notify_change event.  file was modified and/or metadata
+ * was changed.
+ */
+static inline void fsnotify_change(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int ia_valid)
+{
+	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
+	int dn_mask = 0;
+	u32 in_mask = 0;
+
+	if (ia_valid & ATTR_UID) {
+		in_mask |= IN_ATTRIB;
+		dn_mask |= DN_ATTRIB;
+	}
+	if (ia_valid & ATTR_GID) {
+		in_mask |= IN_ATTRIB;
+		dn_mask |= DN_ATTRIB;
+	}
+	if (ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) {
+		in_mask |= IN_MODIFY;
+		dn_mask |= DN_MODIFY;
+	}
+	/* both times implies a utime(s) call */
+	if ((ia_valid & (ATTR_ATIME | ATTR_MTIME)) == (ATTR_ATIME | ATTR_MTIME))
+	{
+		in_mask |= IN_ATTRIB;
+		dn_mask |= DN_ATTRIB;
+	} else if (ia_valid & ATTR_ATIME) {
+		in_mask |= IN_ACCESS;
+		dn_mask |= DN_ACCESS;
+	} else if (ia_valid & ATTR_MTIME) {
+		in_mask |= IN_MODIFY;
+		dn_mask |= DN_MODIFY;
+	}
+	if (ia_valid & ATTR_MODE) {
+		in_mask |= IN_ATTRIB;
+		dn_mask |= DN_ATTRIB;
+	}
+
+	if (dn_mask)
+		dnotify_parent(dentry, dn_mask);
+	if (in_mask) {
+		if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
+			in_mask |= IN_ISDIR;
+		inotify_inode_queue_event(inode, in_mask, 0, NULL);
+		inotify_dentry_parent_queue_event(dentry, in_mask, 0,
+						  dentry->d_name.name);
+	}
+}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_INOTIFY	/* inotify helpers */
+
+/*
+ * fsnotify_oldname_init - save off the old filename before we change it
+ */
+static inline const char *fsnotify_oldname_init(const char *name)
+{
+	return kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
+}
+
+/*
+ * fsnotify_oldname_free - free the name we got from fsnotify_oldname_init
+ */
+static inline void fsnotify_oldname_free(const char *old_name)
+{
+	kfree(old_name);
+}
+
+#else	/* CONFIG_INOTIFY */
+
+static inline const char *fsnotify_oldname_init(const char *name)
+{
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+static inline void fsnotify_oldname_free(const char *old_name)
+{
+}
+
+#endif	/* ! CONFIG_INOTIFY */
+
+#endif	/* __KERNEL__ */
+
+#endif	/* _LINUX_FS_NOTIFY_H */