Hi Jan, Following patches address your review comments on v2 [1]. Branch is avalable at [2] and test branch of complete work of the moment is available at [3]. Thanks, Amir. Changes sinve v2: - Re-parcel variable size buffer using struct fanotify_info - Move space reservation of _inline_fh_buf to struct fanotify_fid_event - Add Acks on kernfs patch [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20200612093343.5669-1-amir73il@xxxxxxxxx/ [2] https://github.com/amir73il/linux/commits/fanotify_prep-v3 [3] https://github.com/amir73il/linux/commits/fanotify_name_fid Amir Goldstein (19): fsnotify: fold fsnotify() call into fsnotify_parent() fsnotify: return non const from fsnotify_data_inode() nfsd: use fsnotify_data_inode() to get the unlinked inode kernfs: do not call fsnotify() with name without a parent inotify: do not use objectid when comparing events fanotify: create overflow event type fanotify: break up fanotify_alloc_event() fsnotify: pass dir argument to handle_event() callback fanotify: generalize the handling of extra event flags fanotify: generalize merge logic of events on dir fanotify: distinguish between fid encode error and null fid fanotify: generalize test for FAN_REPORT_FID fanotify: mask out special event flags from ignored mask fanotify: prepare for implicit event flags in mark mask fanotify: use FAN_EVENT_ON_CHILD as implicit flag on sb/mount/non-dir marks fanotify: remove event FAN_DIR_MODIFY fsnotify: add object type "child" to object type iterator fanotify: use struct fanotify_info to parcel the variable size buffer fanotify: no external fh buffer in fanotify_name_event Mel Gorman (1): fsnotify: Rearrange fast path to minimise overhead when there is no watcher fs/kernfs/file.c | 2 +- fs/nfsd/filecache.c | 8 +- fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c | 8 +- fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c | 354 ++++++++++++++++----------- fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.h | 110 +++++++-- fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c | 110 +++++---- fs/notify/fsnotify.c | 82 ++++--- fs/notify/inotify/inotify.h | 6 +- fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c | 11 +- fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c | 4 +- include/linux/fanotify.h | 6 +- include/linux/fsnotify.h | 43 ++-- include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h | 34 ++- include/uapi/linux/fanotify.h | 1 - kernel/audit_fsnotify.c | 10 +- kernel/audit_tree.c | 6 +- kernel/audit_watch.c | 6 +- 17 files changed, 500 insertions(+), 301 deletions(-) -- 2.17.1