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+/*
+ * Filesystem access notification for Linux
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2008 Red Hat, Inc., Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
+ */
+
+#ifndef __LINUX_FSNOTIFY_BACKEND_H
+#define __LINUX_FSNOTIFY_BACKEND_H
+
+#ifdef __KERNEL__
+
+#include <linux/fs.h> /* struct inode */
+#include <linux/list.h>
+#include <linux/path.h> /* struct path */
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+#include <asm/atomic.h>
+
+/*
+ * IN_* from inotfy.h lines up EXACTLY with FS_*, this is so we can easily
+ * convert between them. dnotify only needs conversion at watch creation
+ * so no perf loss there. fanotify isn't defined yet, so it can use the
+ * wholes if it needs more events.
+ */
+#define FS_ACCESS 0x00000001 /* File was accessed */
+#define FS_MODIFY 0x00000002 /* File was modified */
+#define FS_ATTRIB 0x00000004 /* Metadata changed */
+#define FS_CLOSE_WRITE 0x00000008 /* Writtable file was closed */
+#define FS_CLOSE_NOWRITE 0x00000010 /* Unwrittable file closed */
+#define FS_OPEN 0x00000020 /* File was opened */
+#define FS_MOVED_FROM 0x00000040 /* File was moved from X */
+#define FS_MOVED_TO 0x00000080 /* File was moved to Y */
+#define FS_CREATE 0x00000100 /* Subfile was created */
+#define FS_DELETE 0x00000200 /* Subfile was deleted */
+#define FS_DELETE_SELF 0x00000400 /* Self was deleted */
+#define FS_MOVE_SELF 0x00000800 /* Self was moved */
+
+#define FS_UNMOUNT 0x00002000 /* inode on umount fs */
+#define FS_Q_OVERFLOW 0x00004000 /* Event queued overflowed */
+#define FS_IN_IGNORED 0x00008000 /* last inotify event here */
+
+#define FS_IN_ISDIR 0x40000000 /* event occurred against dir */
+#define FS_IN_ONESHOT 0x80000000 /* only send event once */
+
+#define FS_DN_RENAME 0x10000000 /* file renamed */
+#define FS_DN_MULTISHOT 0x20000000 /* dnotify multishot */
+
+struct fsnotify_group;
+struct fsnotify_event;
+
+/*
+ * Each group much define these ops. The fsnotify infrastructure will call
+ * these operations for each relevant group.
+ *
+ * handle_event - main call for a group to handle an fs event
+ * free_group_priv - called when a group refcnt hits 0 to clean up the private union
+ */
+struct fsnotify_ops {
+ int (*handle_event)(struct fsnotify_group *group, struct fsnotify_event *event);
+ void (*free_group_priv)(struct fsnotify_group *group);
+};
+
+/*
+ * A group is a "thing" that wants to receive notification about filesystem
+ * events. The mask holds the subset of event types this group cares about.
+ * refcnt on a group is up to the implementor and at any moment if it goes 0
+ * everything will be cleaned up.
+ */
+struct fsnotify_group {
+ /*
+ * global list of all groups receiving events from fsnotify.
+ * anchored by fsnotify_groups and protected by either fsnotify_grp_mutex
+ * or fsnotify_grp_srcu depending on write vs read.
+ */
+ struct list_head group_list;
+
+ /*
+ * Defines all of the event types in which this group is interested.
+ * This mask is a bitwise OR of the FS_* events from above. Each time
+ * this mask changes for a group (if it changes) the correct functions
+ * must be called to update the global structures which indicate global
+ * interest in event types.
+ */
+ __u32 mask;
+
+ /*
+ * How the refcnt is used is up to each group. When the refcnt hits 0
+ * fsnotify will clean up all of the resources associated with this group.
+ * As an example, the dnotify group will always have a refcnt=1 and that
+ * will never change. Inotify, on the other hand, has a group per
+ * inotify_init() and the refcnt will hit 0 only when that fd has been
+ * closed.
+ */
+ atomic_t refcnt; /* things with interest in this group */
+ unsigned int group_num; /* simply prevents accidental group collision */
+
+ const struct fsnotify_ops *ops; /* how this group handles things */
+
+ /* prevents double list_del of group_list. protected by global fsnotify_gr_mutex */
+ bool on_group_list;
+
+ /* groups can define private fields here or use the void *private */
+ union {
+ void *private;
+ };
+};
+
+/*
+ * all of the information about the original object we want to now send to
+ * a group. If you want to carry more info from the accessing task to the
+ * listener this structure is where you need to be adding fields.
+ */
+struct fsnotify_event {
+ spinlock_t lock; /* protection for the associated event_holder and private_list */
+ /* to_tell may ONLY be dereferenced during handle_event(). */
+ struct inode *to_tell; /* either the inode the event happened to or its parent */
+ /*
+ * depending on the event type we should have either a path or inode
+ * We hold a reference on path, but NOT on inode. Since we have the ref on
+ * the path, it may be dereferenced at any point during this object's
+ * lifetime. That reference is dropped when this object's refcnt hits
+ * 0. If this event contains an inode instead of a path, the inode may
+ * ONLY be used during handle_event().
+ */
+ union {
+ struct path path;
+ struct inode *inode;
+ };
+/* when calling fsnotify tell it if the data is a path or inode */
+#define FSNOTIFY_EVENT_NONE 0
+#define FSNOTIFY_EVENT_PATH 1
+#define FSNOTIFY_EVENT_INODE 2
+#define FSNOTIFY_EVENT_FILE 3
+ int data_type; /* which of the above union we have */
+ atomic_t refcnt; /* how many groups still are using/need to send this event */
+ __u32 mask; /* the type of access, bitwise OR for FS_* event types */
+};
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_FSNOTIFY
+
+/* called from the vfs helpers */
+
+/* main fsnotify call to send events */
+extern void fsnotify(struct inode *to_tell, __u32 mask, void *data, int data_is);
+
+
+/* called from fsnotify listeners, such as fanotify or dnotify */
+
+/* must call when a group changes its ->mask */
+extern void fsnotify_recalc_global_mask(void);
+/* get a reference to an existing or create a new group */
+extern struct fsnotify_group *fsnotify_obtain_group(unsigned int group_num,
+ __u32 mask,
+ const struct fsnotify_ops *ops);
+/* drop reference on a group from fsnotify_obtain_group */
+extern void fsnotify_put_group(struct fsnotify_group *group);
+
+/* take a reference to an event */
+extern void fsnotify_get_event(struct fsnotify_event *event);
+extern void fsnotify_put_event(struct fsnotify_event *event);
+/* find private data previously attached to an event */
+extern struct fsnotify_event_private_data *fsnotify_get_priv_from_event(struct fsnotify_group *group,
+ struct fsnotify_event *event);
+
+/* put here because inotify does some weird stuff when destroying watches */
+extern struct fsnotify_event *fsnotify_create_event(struct inode *to_tell, __u32 mask,
+ void *data, int data_is);
+#else
+
+static inline void fsnotify(struct inode *to_tell, __u32 mask, void *data, int data_is)
+{}
+#endif /* CONFIG_FSNOTIFY */
+
+#endif /* __KERNEL __ */
+
+#endif /* __LINUX_FSNOTIFY_BACKEND_H */