On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 04:48:34PM +0100, David Howells wrote:

Add UAPI definitions for the general notification ring, including the
following pieces:

 (1) struct watch_notification.

     This is the metadata header for each entry in the ring.  It includes a
     type and subtype that indicate the source of the message
     (eg. WATCH_TYPE_MOUNT_NOTIFY) and the kind of the message
     (eg. NOTIFY_MOUNT_NEW_MOUNT).

     The header also contains an information field that conveys the
     following information:

	- WATCH_INFO_LENGTH.  The size of the entry (entries are variable
          length).

	- WATCH_INFO_ID.  The watch ID specified when the watchpoint was
          set.

	- WATCH_INFO_TYPE_INFO.  (Sub)type-specific information.

	- WATCH_INFO_FLAG_*.  Flag bits overlain on the type-specific
          information.  For use by the type.

     All the information in the header can be used in filtering messages at
     the point of writing into the buffer.

 (2) struct watch_queue_buffer.

     This describes the layout of the ring.  Note that the first slots in
     the ring contain a special metadata entry that contains the ring
     pointers.  The producer in the kernel knows to skip this and it has a
     proper header (WATCH_TYPE_META, WATCH_META_SKIP_NOTIFICATION) that
     indicates the size so that the ring consumer can handle it the same as
     any other record and just skip it.

     Note that this means that ring entries can never be split over the end
     of the ring, so if an entry would need to be split, a skip record is
     inserted to wrap the ring first; this is also WATCH_TYPE_META,
     WATCH_META_SKIP_NOTIFICATION.

 (3) WATCH_INFO_NOTIFICATIONS_LOST.

     This is a flag that can be set in the metadata header by the kernel to
     indicate that at least one message was lost since it was last cleared
     by userspace.

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

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>