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>
diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
index 1515636..9797800 100644
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -180,10 +180,12 @@
#define DCACHE_REFERENCED 0x0008 /* Recently used, don't discard. */
#define DCACHE_UNHASHED 0x0010
-#define DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED 0x0020 /* Parent inode is watched */
+#define DCACHE_INOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED 0x0020 /* Parent inode is watched by inotify */
#define DCACHE_COOKIE 0x0040 /* For use by dcookie subsystem */
+#define DCACHE_FSNOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED 0x0080 /* Parent inode is watched by some fsnotify listener */
+
extern spinlock_t dcache_lock;
extern seqlock_t rename_lock;