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| author | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2009-05-21 17:01:50 -0400 |
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| committer | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2009-06-11 14:57:54 -0400 |
| commit | e4aff117368cfdd3567ee41844d216d079b55173 (patch) | |
| tree | c467bc38edc7ba3154bbf6875dca635b855e1c8c /include | |
| parent | 47882c6f51e8ef41fbbe2bbb746a1ea3228dd7ca (diff) | |
| download | lwn-e4aff117368cfdd3567ee41844d216d079b55173.tar.gz lwn-e4aff117368cfdd3567ee41844d216d079b55173.zip | |
fsnotify: allow groups to add private data to events
inotify needs per group information attached to events. This patch allows
groups to attach private information and implements a callback so that
information can be freed when an event is being destroyed.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h | 24 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h index b78b5573d227..efdf9e442d86 100644 --- a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h +++ b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ struct fsnotify_group; struct fsnotify_event; struct fsnotify_mark_entry; +struct fsnotify_event_private_data; /* * Each group much define these ops. The fsnotify infrastructure will call @@ -81,6 +82,7 @@ struct fsnotify_ops { int (*handle_event)(struct fsnotify_group *group, struct fsnotify_event *event); void (*free_group_priv)(struct fsnotify_group *group); void (*freeing_mark)(struct fsnotify_mark_entry *entry, struct fsnotify_group *group); + void (*free_event_priv)(struct fsnotify_event_private_data *priv); }; /* @@ -158,6 +160,15 @@ struct fsnotify_event_holder { }; /* + * Inotify needs to tack data onto an event. This struct lets us later find the + * correct private data of the correct group. + */ +struct fsnotify_event_private_data { + struct fsnotify_group *group; + struct list_head event_list; +}; + +/* * all of the information about the original object we want to now send to * a group. If you want to carry more info from the accessing task to the * listener this structure is where you need to be adding fields. @@ -196,6 +207,8 @@ struct fsnotify_event { u32 sync_cookie; /* used to corrolate events, namely inotify mv events */ char *file_name; size_t name_len; + + struct list_head private_data_list; /* groups can store private data here */ }; /* @@ -294,17 +307,18 @@ extern void fsnotify_put_group(struct fsnotify_group *group); /* take a reference to an event */ extern void fsnotify_get_event(struct fsnotify_event *event); extern void fsnotify_put_event(struct fsnotify_event *event); -/* find private data previously attached to an event */ -extern struct fsnotify_event_private_data *fsnotify_get_priv_from_event(struct fsnotify_group *group, - struct fsnotify_event *event); +/* find private data previously attached to an event and unlink it */ +extern struct fsnotify_event_private_data *fsnotify_remove_priv_from_event(struct fsnotify_group *group, + struct fsnotify_event *event); /* attach the event to the group notification queue */ -extern int fsnotify_add_notify_event(struct fsnotify_group *group, struct fsnotify_event *event); +extern int fsnotify_add_notify_event(struct fsnotify_group *group, struct fsnotify_event *event, + struct fsnotify_event_private_data *priv); /* true if the group notification queue is empty */ extern bool fsnotify_notify_queue_is_empty(struct fsnotify_group *group); /* return, but do not dequeue the first event on the notification queue */ extern struct fsnotify_event *fsnotify_peek_notify_event(struct fsnotify_group *group); -/* reutnr AND dequeue the first event on the notification queue */ +/* return AND dequeue the first event on the notification queue */ extern struct fsnotify_event *fsnotify_remove_notify_event(struct fsnotify_group *group); /* functions used to manipulate the marks attached to inodes */ |