Hi,
We have a need of getting notifications from kernel to user-space
when tmpfs runs out of free space. I used here a term 'utilization'
in the meaning of percent of free space.
The idea I got is to use eventfd. Proof of concept attached:
1. Patch for kernel.
2. Sample C program (at the end of cover letter).
Usage:
$ mount -t tmpfs -o warn_used=1k,nr_blocks=2k none /path
$ ( sleep 5 && dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/file bs=1M count=4 ) &
$ ./eventfd-wait /sys/fs/tmpfs/tmpfs-6/warn_used_blocks_efd
What do you think about this? Maybe there are simpler ways
of achieving this?
Best regards,
Krzysztof
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#include <sys/eventfd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h> /* Definition of uint64_t */
#define handle_error(msg) \
do { perror(msg); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } while (0)
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int efd;
uint64_t u;
ssize_t s;
int fd;
char buf[10];
if (argc != 2) {
printf("Usage: %s PATH\n", argv[0]);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
efd = eventfd(0, 0);
if (efd == -1)
handle_error("eventfd");
fd = open(argv[1], O_WRONLY);
if (fd < 0)
handle_error("sysfs open");
snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%d", efd);
s = write(fd, buf, strlen(buf));
if (s < 0)
handle_error("sysfs write");
close(fd);
printf("Waiting for usage notification:\n");
s = read(efd, &u, sizeof(uint64_t));
if (s != sizeof(uint64_t))
handle_error("read");
printf("Usage threshold reached: %llu\n",
(unsigned long long) u, (unsigned long long) u);
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
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Krzysztof Kozlowski (1):
shmem: Add eventfd notification on utlilization level
include/linux/shmem_fs.h | 4 ++
mm/shmem.c | 138 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 140 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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