pipe: Add general notification queue support

Make it possible to have a general notification queue built on top of a
standard pipe.  Notifications are 'spliced' into the pipe and then read
out.  splice(), vmsplice() and sendfile() are forbidden on pipes used for
notifications as post_one_notification() cannot take pipe->mutex.  This
means that notifications could be posted in between individual pipe
buffers, making iov_iter_revert() difficult to effect.

The way the notification queue is used is:

 (1) An application opens a pipe with a special flag and indicates the
     number of messages it wishes to be able to queue at once (this can
     only be set once):

	pipe2(fds, O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE);
	ioctl(fds[0], IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_SIZE, queue_depth);

 (2) The application then uses poll() and read() as normal to extract data
     from the pipe.  read() will return multiple notifications if the
     buffer is big enough, but it will not split a notification across
     buffers - rather it will return a short read or EMSGSIZE.

     Notification messages include a length in the header so that the
     caller can split them up.

Each message has a header that describes it:

	struct watch_notification {
		__u32	type:24;
		__u32	subtype:8;
		__u32	info;
	};

The type indicates the source (eg. mount tree changes, superblock events,
keyring changes, block layer events) and the subtype indicates the event
type (eg. mount, unmount; EIO, EDQUOT; link, unlink).  The info field
indicates a number of things, including the entry length, an ID assigned to
a watchpoint contributing to this buffer and type-specific flags.

Supplementary data, such as the key ID that generated an event, can be
attached in additional slots.  The maximum message size is 127 bytes.
Messages may not be padded or aligned, so there is no guarantee, for
example, that the notification type will be on a 4-byte bounary.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/watch_queue.h b/include/uapi/linux/watch_queue.h
index 9df72227f515..3a5790f1f05d 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/watch_queue.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/watch_queue.h
@@ -4,9 +4,13 @@
 
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/fcntl.h>
+#include <linux/ioctl.h>
 
 #define O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE	O_EXCL	/* Parameter to pipe2() selecting notification pipe */
 
+#define IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_SIZE	_IO('W', 0x60)	/* Set the size in pages */
+#define IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_FILTER	_IO('W', 0x61)	/* Set the filter */
+
 enum watch_notification_type {
 	WATCH_TYPE_META		= 0,	/* Special record */
 	WATCH_TYPE__NR		= 1
@@ -41,6 +45,22 @@ struct watch_notification {
 #define WATCH_INFO_FLAG_7	0x00800000
 };
 
+/*
+ * Notification filtering rules (IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_FILTER).
+ */
+struct watch_notification_type_filter {
+	__u32	type;			/* Type to apply filter to */
+	__u32	info_filter;		/* Filter on watch_notification::info */
+	__u32	info_mask;		/* Mask of relevant bits in info_filter */
+	__u32	subtype_filter[8];	/* Bitmask of subtypes to filter on */
+};
+
+struct watch_notification_filter {
+	__u32	nr_filters;		/* Number of filters */
+	__u32	__reserved;		/* Must be 0 */
+	struct watch_notification_type_filter filters[];
+};
+
 
 /*
  * Extended watch removal notification.  This is used optionally if the type