[patch 2/2] [PATCH -mm] docs: Update documentation about /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> fanotify output

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Fri Dec 07 2012 - 15:57:03 EST


Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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---
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 26 ++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.git/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ linux-2.6.git/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -1696,21 +1696,27 @@ pair provide additional information part
If the kernel is built without exportfs support the file handle won't be
printed out.

- For fanotify files the format is
+ If there is no inotify mark attached yet the 'inotify' line will be omitted.

- pos: 0
- flags: 02
- fanotify ino:2 sdev:800013 mask:1 ignored_mask:40000000 fhandle-bytes:8 fhandle-type:1 f_handle:0200000000000000
-
- or
+ For fanotify files the format is

pos: 0
flags: 02
- fanotify mnt_id:13 mask:1 ignored_mask:40000000
+ fanotify flags:10 event-flags:0
+ fanotify mnt_id:12 mflags:40 mask:38 ignored_mask:40000003
+ fanotify ino:4f969 sdev:800013 mflags:0 mask:3b ignored_mask:40000000 fhandle-bytes:8 fhandle-type:1 f_handle:69f90400c275b5b4
+
+ where fanotify 'flags' and 'event-flags' are values used in fanotify_init
+ call, 'mnt_id' is the mount point identifier, 'mflags' is the value of
+ flags associated with mark which are tracked separately from events
+ mask. 'ino', 'sdev' are target inode and device, 'mask' is the events
+ mask and 'ignored_mask' is the mask of events which are to be ignored.
+ All in hex format. Incorporation of 'mflags', 'mask' and 'ignored_mask'
+ does provide information about flags and mask used in fanotify_mark
+ call [see fsnotify manpage for details].

- where 'ino', 'sdev' are target inode and device, 'mnt_id' is the mount
- point identifier, 'mask' is the events mask used and 'ignored_mask' is
- the mask of events which are to be ignored. All in hex format.
+ While the first three lines are mandatory and always printed, the rest is
+ optional and may be omitted if no marks created yet.


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