[PATCH] inotify

inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly
its inability to scale and its terrible user interface:

        * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory
          that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many
          open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.
        * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to
          directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects
          the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of
          stat structures.
        * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful.  Signals?

inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change
notification:

        * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.
	  You get a single fd, which is select()-able.
        * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item
          you were watching is on was unmounted."
        * inotify can watch directories or files.

Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),
Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.

See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 5bc97507eeaa..96364fae0844 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
 #include <linux/cdev.h>
 #include <linux/bootmem.h>
+#include <linux/inotify.h>
 
 /*
  * This is needed for the following functions:
@@ -202,6 +203,10 @@ void inode_init_once(struct inode *inode)
         INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->i_data.i_mmap_nonlinear);
         spin_lock_init(&inode->i_lock);
         i_size_ordered_init(inode);
+#ifdef CONFIG_INOTIFY
+        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->inotify_watches);
+        sema_init(&inode->inotify_sem, 1);
+#endif
 }
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_init_once);
@@ -351,6 +356,7 @@ int invalidate_inodes(struct super_block * sb)
 
         down(&iprune_sem);
         spin_lock(&inode_lock);
+        inotify_unmount_inodes(&sb->s_inodes);
         busy = invalidate_list(&sb->s_inodes, &throw_away);
         spin_unlock(&inode_lock);