fsnotify: parent event notification
inotify and dnotify both use a similar parent notification mechanism. We
add a generic parent notification mechanism to fsnotify for both of these
to use. This new machanism also adds the dentry flag optimization which
exists for inotify to dnotify.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
diff --git a/fs/notify/fsnotify.h b/fs/notify/fsnotify.h
index 8ebcbe8..83b8ec0 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fsnotify.h
+++ b/fs/notify/fsnotify.h
@@ -17,4 +17,9 @@
extern void fsnotify_final_destroy_group(struct fsnotify_group *group);
/* run the list of all marks associated with inode and flag them to be freed */
extern void fsnotify_clear_marks_by_inode(struct inode *inode);
+/*
+ * update the dentry->d_flags of all of inode's children to indicate if inode cares
+ * about events that happen to its children.
+ */
+extern void __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags(struct inode *inode);
#endif /* __FS_NOTIFY_FSNOTIFY_H_ */
