On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 19:51 +0300, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
[rewriting history!]
> struct fanotify_event_metadata {
> __u32 event_len; /* Including the options */
> __u8 vers;
> __u8 options_offset; /* Aka header length */
> __u16 reserved;
> __aligned_u64 mask;
> __s32 fd;
> __s32 pid;
> /* Options go here. */
> };
> and let's make both vers and options_offset u8, just in case we need the
> other 2 bytes in the future:
So the last discussion is around vers and options_offset.
Alexy: Tvrtko:
__u8 vers; __u16 vers;
__u8 options_offset; __u16 options_offset;
__u16 unused;
The only type of long option that first comes to mind is a filename. A
filename could easily blow out the __u8 options_offset. I probably
shouldn't put that in the event_metadata since it wouldn't be fixed
length and it wouldn't allow fixed offset extention of the
event_metadata, so maybe I shouldn't worry about it. I'm trying to
think of reasons why __u8 isn't adequate other than my usual "just make
it bigger than we ever need"
You'll notice I'm using __u64 for the mask, even though we don't come
close to filling up an __u32 at this point.
Even though I can't think of a likely reason __u8 is bad I think I like
the 'Tvrtko' option better. I think we should do a compromise:
Eric:
__u8 vers;
__u8 unused;
__u16 options_offset;
If we ever overload vers we can expand into another field. Would could
change unused into vers2 and define the version as vers + vers2; vers2
could even exist somewhere else in the metadata. That can be done once
we get to version 254 while maintaining backwards compat beyond 255. If
we ever overflow options_offset we are screwed since old userspace
wouldn't know how to handle things.
So, if you want to send me a patch that implements the above (along with
the obvious version bump to 3, I'll queue it up for this merge window
even though we have an ABI compatible solution.
-Eric
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