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| author | Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> | 2022-04-22 15:03:25 +0300 |
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| committer | Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> | 2022-04-25 14:43:03 +0200 |
| commit | 7d5e005d982527e4029b0139823d179986e34cdc (patch) | |
| tree | 228ea7c9eaaa45ba31d8813f9b46a856b78765ef /include/uapi/linux/fanotify.h | |
| parent | 8998d110835e3781ccd3f1ae061a590b4aaba911 (diff) | |
fanotify: implement "evictable" inode marks
When an inode mark is created with flag FAN_MARK_EVICTABLE, it will not
pin the marked inode to inode cache, so when inode is evicted from cache
due to memory pressure, the mark will be lost.
When an inode mark with flag FAN_MARK_EVICATBLE is updated without using
this flag, the marked inode is pinned to inode cache.
When an inode mark is updated with flag FAN_MARK_EVICTABLE but an
existing mark already has the inode pinned, the mark update fails with
error EEXIST.
Evictable inode marks can be used to setup inode marks with ignored mask
to suppress events from uninteresting files or directories in a lazy
manner, upon receiving the first event, without having to iterate all
the uninteresting files or directories before hand.
The evictbale inode mark feature allows performing this lazy marks setup
without exhausting the system memory with pinned inodes.
This change does not enable the feature yet.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAOQ4uxiRDpuS=2uA6+ZUM7yG9vVU-u212tkunBmSnP_u=mkv=Q@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220422120327.3459282-15-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/fanotify.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/fanotify.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fanotify.h b/include/uapi/linux/fanotify.h index e8ac38cc2fd6..f1f89132d60e 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/fanotify.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/fanotify.h @@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ #define FAN_MARK_IGNORED_SURV_MODIFY 0x00000040 #define FAN_MARK_FLUSH 0x00000080 /* FAN_MARK_FILESYSTEM is 0x00000100 */ +#define FAN_MARK_EVICTABLE 0x00000200 /* These are NOT bitwise flags. Both bits can be used togther. */ #define FAN_MARK_INODE 0x00000000 |