linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] notification tree changes for 3.8

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Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:38:58 -0500
From:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
To:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] notification tree changes for 3.8

I believe you would get a build failure after this pull due to the
addition of procfs information for *notify fds.  The attached patch from
sfr should be applied during the merge to change the spin_lock in that
patch to the mutex in this patch.

This pull mostly is about locking changes in the fsnotify system.  By
switching the group lock from a spin_lock() to a mutex() we can now hold
the lock across things like iput().  This fixes a problem involving
unmounting a fs and having inodes be busy, first pointed out by FAT, but
reproducible with tmpfs.

This also restores signal driven I/O for inotify, which has been broken
since about 2.6.32.

$ git request-pull v3.6 git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify.git
The following changes since commit a0d271cbfed1dd50278c6b06bead3d00ba0a88f9:

  Linux 3.6 (2012-09-30 16:47:46 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify.git for-next

for you to fetch changes up to 1ca39ab9d21ac93f94b9e3eb364ea9a5cf2aba06:

  inotify: automatically restart syscalls (2012-12-11 13:44:37 -0500)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Paris (2):
      fsnotify: make fasync generic for both inotify and fanotify
      inotify: automatically restart syscalls

Lino Sanfilippo (12):
      inotify, fanotify: replace fsnotify_put_group() with fsnotify_destroy_group()
      fsnotify: introduce fsnotify_get_group()
      fsnotify: use reference counting for groups
      fsnotify: take groups mark_lock before mark lock
      fanotify: add an extra flag to mark_remove_from_mask that indicates wheather a mark should be destroyed
      fsnotify: use a mutex instead of a spinlock to protect a groups mark list
      fsnotify: pass group to fsnotify_destroy_mark()
      fsnotify: introduce locked versions of fsnotify_add_mark() and fsnotify_remove_mark()
      fsnotify: dont put marks on temporary list when clearing marks by group
      fsnotify: change locking order
      fanotify: dont merge permission events
      inotify: dont skip removal of watch descriptor if creation of ignored event failed

 fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c          |  4 ++--
 fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c        |  6 ++++++
 fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c   | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 fs/notify/group.c                    | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 fs/notify/inode_mark.c               | 14 +++++++++++---
 fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c |  4 +++-
 fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c     | 34 ++++++++++++++--------------------
 fs/notify/mark.c                     | 91 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------------------
 fs/notify/notification.c             |  1 +
 fs/notify/vfsmount_mark.c            | 14 +++++++++++---
 include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h     | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++----------
 kernel/audit_tree.c                  | 10 +++++-----
 kernel/audit_watch.c                 |  4 ++--
 13 files changed, 178 insertions(+), 119 deletions(-)

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