From 8c1934c8d70b22ca8333b216aec6c7d09fdbd6a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Paris Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:18:37 -0400 Subject: inotify: allow users to request not to recieve events on unlinked children An inotify watch on a directory will send events for children even if those children have been unlinked. This patch add a new inotify flag IN_EXCL_UNLINK which allows a watch to specificy they don't care about unlinked children. This should fix performance problems seen by tasks which add a watch to /tmp and then are overrun with events when other processes are reading and writing to unlinked files they created in /tmp. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16296 Requested-by: Matthias Clasen Signed-off-by: Eric Paris --- fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c') diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c index 388a150c3d4..9d332e7f5a5 100644 --- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c +++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ * General Public License for more details. */ +#include /* d_unlinked */ #include /* struct inode */ #include #include @@ -157,6 +158,14 @@ static bool inotify_should_send_event(struct fsnotify_group *group, struct inode mask = (mask & ~FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD); send = (fsn_mark->mask & mask); + if (send && (fsn_mark->mask & FS_EXCL_UNLINK) && + (data_type == FSNOTIFY_EVENT_PATH)) { + struct path *path = data; + + if (d_unlinked(path->dentry)) + send = false; + } + /* find took a reference */ fsnotify_put_mark(fsn_mark); -- cgit v1.2.3