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"dirent" events are referring to events that modify directory entries, such as create,delete,rename. Those events are always be reported on a watched directory, regardless if FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD is set on the watch mask. ALL_FSNOTIFY_DIRENT_EVENTS defines all the dirent event types and those event types are removed from FS_EVENTS_POSS_ON_CHILD. That means for a directory with an inotify watch and only dirent events in the mask (i.e. create,delete,move), all children dentries will no longer have the DCACHE_FSNOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED flag set. This will allow all events that happen on children to be optimized away in __fsnotify_parent() without the need to dereference child->d_parent->d_inode->i_fsnotify_mask. Since the dirent events are never repoted via __fsnotify_parent(), this results in no change of logic, but only an optimization. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.