fsnotify: ignored_mask - excluding notification
The ignored_mask is a new mask which is part of fsnotify marks. A group's
should_send_event() function can use the ignored mask to determine that
certain events are not of interest. In particular if a group registers a
mask including FS_OPEN on a vfsmount they could add FS_OPEN to the
ignored_mask for individual inodes and not send open events for those
inodes.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
index 489c881..018416e 100644
--- a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
+++ b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
@@ -266,6 +266,7 @@
struct fsnotify_inode_mark i;
struct fsnotify_vfsmount_mark m;
};
+ __u32 ignored_mask; /* events types to ignore */
struct list_head free_g_list; /* tmp list used when freeing this mark */
#define FSNOTIFY_MARK_FLAG_INODE 0x01
#define FSNOTIFY_MARK_FLAG_VFSMOUNT 0x02
@@ -373,6 +374,8 @@
extern struct fsnotify_mark *fsnotify_find_vfsmount_mark(struct fsnotify_group *group, struct vfsmount *mnt);
/* copy the values from old into new */
extern void fsnotify_duplicate_mark(struct fsnotify_mark *new, struct fsnotify_mark *old);
+/* set the ignored_mask of a mark */
+extern void fsnotify_set_mark_ignored_mask_locked(struct fsnotify_mark *mark, __u32 mask);
/* set the mask of a mark (might pin the object into memory */
extern void fsnotify_set_mark_mask_locked(struct fsnotify_mark *mark, __u32 mask);
/* attach the mark to both the group and the inode */