/proc/swaps: support polling
authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:06 +0000 (14:22 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:52:11 +0000 (16:52 -0700)
System management wants to subscribe to changes in swap configuration.
Make /proc/swaps pollable like /proc/mounts.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: document proc_poll_event]
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/swapfile.c

index 9fc7bac7db0c3b3478b49cbcf33a7f906c170b4c..67ddaaf98c744d9e7febe38b0cbdd9cabb55c5b1 100644 (file)
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 #include <linux/capability.h>
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
 #include <linux/memcontrol.h>
+#include <linux/poll.h>
 
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
@@ -58,6 +59,10 @@ static struct swap_info_struct *swap_info[MAX_SWAPFILES];
 
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(swapon_mutex);
 
+static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(proc_poll_wait);
+/* Activity counter to indicate that a swapon or swapoff has occurred */
+static atomic_t proc_poll_event = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
+
 static inline unsigned char swap_count(unsigned char ent)
 {
        return ent & ~SWAP_HAS_CACHE;   /* may include SWAP_HAS_CONT flag */
@@ -1680,6 +1685,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __user *, specialfile)
        }
        filp_close(swap_file, NULL);
        err = 0;
+       atomic_inc(&proc_poll_event);
+       wake_up_interruptible(&proc_poll_wait);
 
 out_dput:
        filp_close(victim, NULL);
@@ -1688,6 +1695,25 @@ out:
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
+struct proc_swaps {
+       struct seq_file seq;
+       int event;
+};
+
+static unsigned swaps_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait)
+{
+       struct proc_swaps *s = file->private_data;
+
+       poll_wait(file, &proc_poll_wait, wait);
+
+       if (s->event != atomic_read(&proc_poll_event)) {
+               s->event = atomic_read(&proc_poll_event);
+               return POLLIN | POLLRDNORM | POLLERR | POLLPRI;
+       }
+
+       return POLLIN | POLLRDNORM;
+}
+
 /* iterator */
 static void *swap_start(struct seq_file *swap, loff_t *pos)
 {
@@ -1771,7 +1797,24 @@ static const struct seq_operations swaps_op = {
 
 static int swaps_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 {
-       return seq_open(file, &swaps_op);
+       struct proc_swaps *s;
+       int ret;
+
+       s = kmalloc(sizeof(struct proc_swaps), GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (!s)
+               return -ENOMEM;
+
+       file->private_data = s;
+
+       ret = seq_open(file, &swaps_op);
+       if (ret) {
+               kfree(s);
+               return ret;
+       }
+
+       s->seq.private = s;
+       s->event = atomic_read(&proc_poll_event);
+       return ret;
 }
 
 static const struct file_operations proc_swaps_operations = {
@@ -1779,6 +1822,7 @@ static const struct file_operations proc_swaps_operations = {
        .read           = seq_read,
        .llseek         = seq_lseek,
        .release        = seq_release,
+       .poll           = swaps_poll,
 };
 
 static int __init procswaps_init(void)
@@ -2084,6 +2128,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags)
                swap_info[prev]->next = type;
        spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
        mutex_unlock(&swapon_mutex);
+       atomic_inc(&proc_poll_event);
+       wake_up_interruptible(&proc_poll_wait);
+
        error = 0;
        goto out;
 bad_swap: