Re: [PATCH v8 13/19] fanotify: add a helper to check for pre content events

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On Fri 15-11-24 10:30:26, Josef Bacik wrote:
> From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> We want to emit events during page fault, and calling into fanotify
> could be expensive, so add a helper to allow us to skip calling into
> fanotify from page fault.  This will also be used to disable readahead
> for content watched files which will be handled in a subsequent patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/fsnotify.h | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify.h b/include/linux/fsnotify.h
> index 08893429a818..d5a0d8648000 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fsnotify.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fsnotify.h
> @@ -178,6 +178,11 @@ static inline void file_set_fsnotify_mode(struct file *file)
>  	}
>  }
>  
> +static inline bool fsnotify_file_has_pre_content_watches(struct file *file)
> +{
> +	return file && unlikely(FMODE_FSNOTIFY_HSM(file->f_mode));
> +}
> +

I was pondering about this and since we are trying to make these quick
checks more explicit, I'll probably drop this helper. Also the 'file &&'
part looks strange (I understand page_cache_[a]sync_ra() need it but I'd
rather handle it explicitely there).

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR




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