From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261670AbVEJPNH (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 11:13:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261672AbVEJPNH (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 11:13:07 -0400 Received: from schlund.terranet.ro ([80.96.218.84]:9020 "EHLO dizzywork.schlund.ro") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261670AbVEJPMs (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 11:12:48 -0400 Message-ID: <4280CF60.7080803@schlund.ro> Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 18:12:32 +0300 From: Mihai Rusu User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: rml@novell.com Subject: [RFC][PATCH 2.4 0/4] inotify 0.22 2.4.x backport X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello This are the patches for 2.4.x inotify 0.22 backport. While probably there is no chance to have this included in vanilla 2.4.x I hope there are interested people that can test it out. Any feedback is very appreciated. The modifications have been worked out on 2.4.27 (the kernel versions we need/use right now) and adapted for 2.4.30 to apply cleanly. We performed our testing with usermode linux and UML (virtual) SMP feature. While developing/working on it at some point we observed a "create file" event not being generated for a new file. This only happened once and we were unable to reproduce this so far. So be careful :) Also because of the x86 only atomic_inc_return backport the codes currently only compile for x86. It should be easy however to backport those codes for other architectures. The following patches will be: - find_next_bit backport - idr backport - atomic_inc_return x86 backport - inotify specific codes backport -- Mihai Rusu Linux System Development Schlund + Partner AG Tel : +40-21-231-2544 Str Mircea Eliade 18 EMail : dizzy@schlund.ro Sect 1, Bucuresti 71295, Romania