From a2d8bc6cb4a3024661baf877242f123787d0c054 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Paris Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 17:01:37 -0400 Subject: fsnotify: generic notification queue and waitq inotify needs to do asyc notification in which event information is stored on a queue until the listener is ready to receive it. This patch implements a generic notification queue for inotify (and later fanotify) to store events to be sent at a later time. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris Acked-by: Al Viro Cc: Christoph Hellwig --- fs/notify/fsnotify.h | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/notify/fsnotify.h') diff --git a/fs/notify/fsnotify.h b/fs/notify/fsnotify.h index 83b8ec0..4dc2408 100644 --- a/fs/notify/fsnotify.h +++ b/fs/notify/fsnotify.h @@ -13,8 +13,12 @@ extern struct list_head fsnotify_groups; /* all bitwise OR of all event types (FS_*) for all fsnotify_groups */ extern __u32 fsnotify_mask; +/* destroy all events sitting in this groups notification queue */ +extern void fsnotify_flush_notify(struct fsnotify_group *group); + /* final kfree of a group */ extern void fsnotify_final_destroy_group(struct fsnotify_group *group); + /* run the list of all marks associated with inode and flag them to be freed */ extern void fsnotify_clear_marks_by_inode(struct inode *inode); /* @@ -22,4 +26,9 @@ extern void fsnotify_clear_marks_by_inode(struct inode *inode); * about events that happen to its children. */ extern void __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags(struct inode *inode); + +/* allocate and destroy and event holder to attach events to notification/access queues */ +extern struct fsnotify_event_holder *fsnotify_alloc_event_holder(void); +extern void fsnotify_destroy_event_holder(struct fsnotify_event_holder *holder); + #endif /* __FS_NOTIFY_FSNOTIFY_H_ */ -- cgit v1.1