Re: [patch 3/7] fs, notify: Add file handle entry intoinotify_inode_mark

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 09:50:55AM +0000, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> > > You could not use a pointer and then allocate your buffers on the check
> > > point operation, freeing on restore?
> > 
> > The problem is not allocating the memory itself but rather the time when the
> > information needed (ie the dentry) is available. The only moment when we
> > can use dentry of the target file/directory is at inotify_new_watch, that's
> > why i need to compose fhandle that early. At any later point we simply have
> > no dentry to use.
> 
> But you do not fundamentally need the dentry to restore a watch, right? 

dentry only needed to encode the file handle.

> Couldn't you restore, creating a new restore path if needed, using the inode 
> which is pinned anyway while the watch exists?

plain inode is not enough as far as i can tell, iow i don't see the way
to restore path from inode solely. or there something i miss?

	Cyrill
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