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-rw-r--r--fs/notify/fsnotify.c91
-rw-r--r--fs/notify/fsnotify.h5
-rw-r--r--fs/notify/inode_mark.c17
3 files changed, 113 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/fsnotify.c b/fs/notify/fsnotify.c
index d5654629c659..7fc760067a62 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fsnotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fsnotify.c
@@ -35,6 +35,97 @@ void __fsnotify_inode_delete(struct inode *inode)
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__fsnotify_inode_delete);
/*
+ * Given an inode, first check if we care what happens to our children. Inotify
+ * and dnotify both tell their parents about events. If we care about any event
+ * on a child we run all of our children and set a dentry flag saying that the
+ * parent cares. Thus when an event happens on a child it can quickly tell if
+ * if there is a need to find a parent and send the event to the parent.
+ */
+void __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags(struct inode *inode)
+{
+ struct dentry *alias;
+ int watched;
+
+ if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
+ return;
+
+ /* determine if the children should tell inode about their events */
+ watched = fsnotify_inode_watches_children(inode);
+
+ spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
+ /* run all of the dentries associated with this inode. Since this is a
+ * directory, there damn well better only be one item on this list */
+ list_for_each_entry(alias, &inode->i_dentry, d_alias) {
+ struct dentry *child;
+
+ /* run all of the children of the original inode and fix their
+ * d_flags to indicate parental interest (their parent is the
+ * original inode) */
+ list_for_each_entry(child, &alias->d_subdirs, d_u.d_child) {
+ if (!child->d_inode)
+ continue;
+
+ spin_lock(&child->d_lock);
+ if (watched)
+ child->d_flags |= DCACHE_FSNOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED;
+ else
+ child->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_FSNOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED;
+ spin_unlock(&child->d_lock);
+ }
+ }
+ spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
+}
+
+/* Notify this dentry's parent about a child's events. */
+void __fsnotify_parent(struct dentry *dentry, __u32 mask)
+{
+ struct dentry *parent;
+ struct inode *p_inode;
+ bool send = false;
+ bool should_update_children = false;
+
+ if (!(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_FSNOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED))
+ return;
+
+ spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
+ parent = dentry->d_parent;
+ p_inode = parent->d_inode;
+
+ if (fsnotify_inode_watches_children(p_inode)) {
+ if (p_inode->i_fsnotify_mask & mask) {
+ dget(parent);
+ send = true;
+ }
+ } else {
+ /*
+ * The parent doesn't care about events on it's children but
+ * at least one child thought it did. We need to run all the
+ * children and update their d_flags to let them know p_inode
+ * doesn't care about them any more.
+ */
+ dget(parent);
+ should_update_children = true;
+ }
+
+ spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
+
+ if (send) {
+ /* we are notifying a parent so come up with the new mask which
+ * specifies these are events which came from a child. */
+ mask |= FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD;
+
+ fsnotify(p_inode, mask, dentry->d_inode, FSNOTIFY_EVENT_INODE);
+ dput(parent);
+ }
+
+ if (unlikely(should_update_children)) {
+ __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags(p_inode);
+ dput(parent);
+ }
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__fsnotify_parent);
+
+/*
* This is the main call to fsnotify. The VFS calls into hook specific functions
* in linux/fsnotify.h. Those functions then in turn call here. Here will call
* out to all of the registered fsnotify_group. Those groups can then use the
diff --git a/fs/notify/fsnotify.h b/fs/notify/fsnotify.h
index 8ebcbe893c91..83b8ec0a8ec2 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fsnotify.h
+++ b/fs/notify/fsnotify.h
@@ -17,4 +17,9 @@ extern __u32 fsnotify_mask;
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);
+/*
+ * update the dentry->d_flags of all of inode's children to indicate if inode cares
+ * about events that happen to its children.
+ */
+extern void __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags(struct inode *inode);
#endif /* __FS_NOTIFY_FSNOTIFY_H_ */
diff --git a/fs/notify/inode_mark.c b/fs/notify/inode_mark.c
index cdc154146974..a39534845b28 100644
--- a/fs/notify/inode_mark.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inode_mark.c
@@ -131,6 +131,8 @@ void fsnotify_recalc_inode_mask(struct inode *inode)
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
fsnotify_recalc_inode_mask_locked(inode);
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
+
+ __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags(inode);
}
/*
@@ -190,6 +192,19 @@ void fsnotify_destroy_mark_by_entry(struct fsnotify_mark_entry *entry)
group->ops->freeing_mark(entry, group);
/*
+ * __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags(inode);
+ *
+ * I really want to call that, but we can't, we have no idea if the inode
+ * still exists the second we drop the entry->lock.
+ *
+ * The next time an event arrive to this inode from one of it's children
+ * __fsnotify_parent will see that the inode doesn't care about it's
+ * children and will update all of these flags then. So really this
+ * is just a lazy update (and could be a perf win...)
+ */
+
+
+ /*
* it's possible that this group tried to destroy itself, but this
* this mark was simultaneously being freed by inode. If that's the
* case, we finish freeing the group here.
@@ -323,6 +338,8 @@ int fsnotify_add_mark(struct fsnotify_mark_entry *entry,
if (lentry) {
ret = -EEXIST;
fsnotify_put_mark(lentry);
+ } else {
+ __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags(inode);
}
return ret;