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Eric Paris
f44aebcc56 inotify: use GFP_NOFS under potential memory pressure
inotify can have a watchs removed under filesystem reclaim.

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[ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
2.6.31-rc2 #16
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inconsistent {IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} -> {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} usage.
khubd/217 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
 (iprune_mutex){+.+.?.}, at: [<c10ba899>] invalidate_inodes+0x20/0xe3
{IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} state was registered at:
  [<c10536ab>] __lock_acquire+0x2c9/0xac4
  [<c1053f45>] lock_acquire+0x9f/0xc2
  [<c1308872>] __mutex_lock_common+0x2d/0x323
  [<c1308c00>] mutex_lock_nested+0x2e/0x36
  [<c10ba6ff>] shrink_icache_memory+0x38/0x1b2
  [<c108bfb6>] shrink_slab+0xe2/0x13c
  [<c108c3e1>] kswapd+0x3d1/0x55d
  [<c10449b5>] kthread+0x66/0x6b
  [<c1003fdf>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
  [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

Two things are needed to fix this.  First we need a method to tell
fsnotify_create_event() to use GFP_NOFS and second we need to stop using
one global IN_IGNORED event and allocate them one at a time.  This solves
current issues with multiple IN_IGNORED on a queue having tail drop
problems and simplifies the allocations since we don't have to worry about
two tasks opperating on the IGNORED event concurrently.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-07-21 15:26:27 -04:00
Jeremy Kerr
e6ce306601 fs: allow d_instantiate to be called with negative parent dentry
The new fsnotify infrastructure (starting at 90586523) causes an oops in
spufs, where we populate a directory with files before instantiating the
directory itself. The new changes seem to have introduced an assumption
that a dentry's parent will be positive when instantiating.

This change makes it once again possible to d_instantiate a dentry
with a negative parent, and brings __fsnotify_d_instantiate() into
line with inotify_d_instantiate(), which already has this NULL check.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-06-29 10:00:58 -04:00
Eric Paris
63c882a054 inotify: reimplement inotify using fsnotify
Reimplement inotify_user using fsnotify.  This should be feature for feature
exactly the same as the original inotify_user.  This does not make any changes
to the in kernel inotify feature used by audit.  Those patches (and the eventual
removal of in kernel inotify) will come after the new inotify_user proves to be
working correctly.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-06-11 14:57:54 -04:00
Eric Paris
164bc61951 fsnotify: handle filesystem unmounts with fsnotify marks
When an fs is unmounted with an fsnotify mark entry attached to one of its
inodes we need to destroy that mark entry and we also (like inotify) send
an unmount event.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-06-11 14:57:54 -04:00
Eric Paris
e4aff11736 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>
2009-06-11 14:57:54 -04:00
Eric Paris
47882c6f51 fsnotify: add correlations between events
As part of the standard inotify events it includes a correlation cookie
between two dentry move operations.  This patch includes the same behaviour
in fsnotify events.  It is needed so that inotify userspace can be
implemented on top of fsnotify.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-06-11 14:57:54 -04:00
Eric Paris
62ffe5dfba fsnotify: include pathnames with entries when possible
When inotify wants to send events to a directory about a child it includes
the name of the original file.  This patch collects that filename and makes
it available for notification.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-06-11 14:57:53 -04:00
Eric Paris
a2d8bc6cb4 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 <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-06-11 14:57:53 -04:00
Eric Paris
3c5119c05d dnotify: reimplement dnotify using fsnotify
Reimplement dnotify using fsnotify.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-06-11 14:57:53 -04:00
Eric Paris
c28f7e56e9 fsnotify: parent event notification
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: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-06-11 14:57:53 -04:00
Eric Paris
3be25f49b9 fsnotify: add marks to inodes so groups can interpret how to handle those inodes
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: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-06-11 14:57:53 -04:00
Eric Paris
90586523eb fsnotify: unified filesystem notification backend
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 8f7b0ba1c8 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
f04b30de3 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: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-06-11 14:57:52 -04:00