On Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 10:39:04AM +0000, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 02:32:11PM -0500, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > Alyssa Ross <hi@xxxxxxxxx> requested that virtiofs notifies userspace
> > when filesytems become available. This can be used to detect when a
> > filesystem with a given tag is hotplugged, for example. uevents allow
> > userspace to detect changes without resorting to polling.
> >
> > The tag is included as a uevent property so it's easy for userspace to
> > identify the filesystem in question even when the sysfs directory goes
> > away during removal.
> >
> > Here are example uevents:
> >
> > # udevadm monitor -k -p
> >
> > KERNEL[111.113221] add /fs/virtiofs/2 (virtiofs)
> > ACTION=add
> > DEVPATH=/fs/virtiofs/2
> > SUBSYSTEM=virtiofs
> > TAG=test
> >
> > KERNEL[165.527167] remove /fs/virtiofs/2 (virtiofs)
> > ACTION=remove
> > DEVPATH=/fs/virtiofs/2
> > SUBSYSTEM=virtiofs
> > TAG=test
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c b/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c
> > index 28e96b7cde00..18a8f531e5d4 100644
> > --- a/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c
> > +++ b/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c
> > @@ -270,6 +270,17 @@ static void virtio_fs_start_all_queues(struct virtio_fs *fs)
> > }
> > }
> >
> > +static void virtio_fs_uevent(struct virtio_fs *fs, enum kobject_action action)
> > +{
> > + char tag_str[sizeof("TAG=") +
> > + sizeof_field(struct virtio_fs_config, tag) + 1];
> > + char *envp[] = {tag_str, NULL};
> > +
> > + snprintf(tag_str, sizeof(tag_str), "TAG=%s", fs->tag);
> > +
> > + kobject_uevent_env(&fs->kobj, action, envp);
> > +}
> > +
> > /* Add a new instance to the list or return -EEXIST if tag name exists*/
> > static int virtio_fs_add_instance(struct virtio_device *vdev,
> > struct virtio_fs *fs)
> > @@ -309,6 +320,8 @@ static int virtio_fs_add_instance(struct virtio_device *vdev,
> >
> > mutex_unlock(&virtio_fs_mutex);
> >
> > + virtio_fs_uevent(fs, KOBJ_ADD);
>
> Why do you have to explicitly ask for the event? Doesn't sysfs trigger
> this for you automatically? Set the kset uevent callback for this,
> right?
I haven't found a way to get an implicit KOBJ_ADD uevent. device_add()
and other kset_uevent_ops users emit KOBJ_ADD manually too. Grepping for
KOBJ_ADD in fs/sysfs/ and lib/ doesn't produce any useful results
either.
It is possible to eliminate the explicit KOBJ_REMOVE though because
kobject_del() already calls it. I will fix that and switch to
kset_uevent_ops->uevent().
Thanks,
Stefan
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