Re: [PATCH v3 7/8] fanotify: support reporting thread id instead of process id

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On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 11:46 AM Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu 04-10-18 00:25:38, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > In order to identify which thread triggered the event in a
> > multi-threaded program, add the FAN_EVENT_INFO_TID flag in fanotify_init
> > to opt-in for reporting the event creator's thread id information.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: nixiaoming <nixiaoming@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
> ...
> > diff --git a/include/linux/fanotify.h b/include/linux/fanotify.h
> > index afddd7e0d5a1..05b696b4856b 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/fanotify.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/fanotify.h
> > @@ -18,7 +18,10 @@
> >  #define FANOTIFY_CLASS_BITS  (FAN_CLASS_NOTIF | FAN_CLASS_CONTENT | \
> >                                FAN_CLASS_PRE_CONTENT)
> >
> > +#define FANOTIFY_EVENT_INFO_FLAGS    (FAN_EVENT_INFO_TID)
> > +
> >  #define FANOTIFY_INIT_FLAGS  (FANOTIFY_CLASS_BITS | \
> > +                              FANOTIFY_EVENT_INFO_FLAGS | \
> >                                FAN_CLOEXEC | FAN_NONBLOCK | \
> >                                FAN_UNLIMITED_QUEUE | FAN_UNLIMITED_MARKS)
>
> Is there reason to define FANOTIFY_EVENT_INFO_FLAGS? But I guess you
> prepare with this for further changes you want to do? Just that at this
> point it looks a bit silly and I cannot really think of a reason why we'd
> like to distinguish flags in FANOTIFY_EVENT_INFO_FLAGS from other flags in
> FANOTIFY_INIT_FLAGS...
>

No functional reason. Feel free to drop FANOTIFY_EVENT_INFO_FLAGS.

Thanks,
Amir.



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