[PATCH v4 3/3] virtiofs: emit uevents on filesystem events

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c b/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c
index 99b6113bbd13..62a44603740c 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/virtio_fs.c
@@ -306,6 +306,8 @@ static int virtio_fs_add_instance(struct virtio_device *vdev,
 
 	mutex_unlock(&virtio_fs_mutex);
 
+	kobject_uevent(&fs->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -1565,9 +1567,22 @@ static struct file_system_type virtio_fs_type = {
 	.kill_sb	= virtio_kill_sb,
 };
 
+static int virtio_fs_uevent(const struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
+{
+	const struct virtio_fs *fs = container_of(kobj, struct virtio_fs, kobj);
+
+	add_uevent_var(env, "TAG=%s", fs->tag);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static const struct kset_uevent_ops virtio_fs_uevent_ops = {
+	.uevent = virtio_fs_uevent,
+};
+
 static int __init virtio_fs_sysfs_init(void)
 {
-	virtio_fs_kset = kset_create_and_add("virtiofs", NULL, fs_kobj);
+	virtio_fs_kset = kset_create_and_add("virtiofs", &virtio_fs_uevent_ops,
+					     fs_kobj);
 	if (!virtio_fs_kset)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	return 0;
-- 
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