fsnotify: remove the global masks

Because we walk the object->fsnotify_marks list instead of the global
fsnotify groups list we don't need the fsnotify_inode_mask and
fsnotify_vfsmount_mask as these were simply shortcuts in fsnotify() for
performance.  They are now extra checks, rip them out.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

3 files changed, 2 insertions, 46 deletions

diff --git a/fs/notify/fsnotify.c b/fs/notify/fsnotify.c
index 53b31f46d698..9ba29ee747cf 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fsnotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fsnotify.c
@@ -227,11 +227,6 @@ int fsnotify(struct inode *to_tell, __u32 mask, void *data, int data_is,
         if (mask & FS_MODIFY)
                 __fsnotify_flush_ignored_mask(to_tell, data, data_is);
 
-        /* if none of the directed listeners or vfsmount listeners care */
-        if (!(test_mask & fsnotify_inode_mask) &&
-            !(test_mask & fsnotify_vfsmount_mask))
-                return 0;
- 
         if (data_is == FSNOTIFY_EVENT_FILE)
                 mnt = ((struct file *)data)->f_path.mnt;
 
diff --git a/fs/notify/fsnotify.h b/fs/notify/fsnotify.h
index 7eed86f942ba..b41dbf5a125c 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fsnotify.h
+++ b/fs/notify/fsnotify.h
@@ -10,10 +10,6 @@
 extern struct list_head fsnotify_inode_groups;
 /* all groups which receive vfsmount fsnotify events */
 extern struct list_head fsnotify_vfsmount_groups;
-/* all bitwise OR of all event types (FS_*) for all fsnotify_inode_groups */
-extern __u32 fsnotify_inode_mask;
-/* all bitwise OR of all event types (FS_*) for all fsnotify_vfsmount_groups */
-extern __u32 fsnotify_vfsmount_mask;
 
 /* destroy all events sitting in this groups notification queue */
 extern void fsnotify_flush_notify(struct fsnotify_group *group);
diff --git a/fs/notify/group.c b/fs/notify/group.c
index 48d3a6d6e47a..8da532dd6026 100644
--- a/fs/notify/group.c
+++ b/fs/notify/group.c
@@ -34,54 +34,21 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(fsnotify_grp_mutex);
 LIST_HEAD(fsnotify_inode_groups);
 /* all groups registered to receive mount point filesystem notifications */
 LIST_HEAD(fsnotify_vfsmount_groups);
-/* bitwise OR of all events (FS_*) interesting to some group on this system */
-__u32 fsnotify_inode_mask;
-/* bitwise OR of all events (FS_*) interesting to some group on this system */
-__u32 fsnotify_vfsmount_mask;
-
-/*
- * When a new group registers or changes it's set of interesting events
- * this function updates the fsnotify_mask to contain all interesting events
- */
-void fsnotify_recalc_global_mask(void)
-{
-        struct fsnotify_group *group;
-        __u32 inode_mask = 0;
-        __u32 vfsmount_mask = 0;
-
-        mutex_lock(&fsnotify_grp_mutex);
-        list_for_each_entry_rcu(group, &fsnotify_inode_groups, inode_group_list)
-                inode_mask |= group->mask;
-        list_for_each_entry_rcu(group, &fsnotify_vfsmount_groups, vfsmount_group_list)
-                vfsmount_mask |= group->mask;
-
-        fsnotify_inode_mask = inode_mask;
-        fsnotify_vfsmount_mask = vfsmount_mask;
-
-        mutex_unlock(&fsnotify_grp_mutex);
-}
 
 /*
  * Update the group->mask by running all of the marks associated with this
- * group and finding the bitwise | of all of the mark->mask.  If we change
- * the group->mask we need to update the global mask of events interesting
- * to the system.
+ * group and finding the bitwise | of all of the mark->mask.
  */
 void fsnotify_recalc_group_mask(struct fsnotify_group *group)
 {
         __u32 mask = 0;
-        __u32 old_mask = group->mask;
         struct fsnotify_mark *mark;
 
         spin_lock(&group->mark_lock);
         list_for_each_entry(mark, &group->marks_list, g_list)
                 mask |= mark->mask;
-        spin_unlock(&group->mark_lock);
-
         group->mask = mask;
-
-        if (old_mask != mask)
-                fsnotify_recalc_global_mask();
+        spin_unlock(&group->mark_lock);
 }
 
 void fsnotify_add_vfsmount_group(struct fsnotify_group *group)
@@ -217,8 +184,6 @@ void fsnotify_put_group(struct fsnotify_group *group)
 
         mutex_unlock(&fsnotify_grp_mutex);
 
-        /* and now it is really dead. _Nothing_ could be seeing it */
-        fsnotify_recalc_global_mask();
         fsnotify_destroy_group(group);
 }