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fsnotify: remove group->mask

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group->mask is now useless.  It was originally a shortcut for fsnotify to
save on performance.  These checks are now redundant, so we remove them.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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Eric Paris
2010-07-28 10:18:39 -04:00
parent 03930979af
commit 43709a288e
6 changed files with 5 additions and 66 deletions
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include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
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@ -119,15 +119,6 @@ struct fsnotify_group {
*/
struct list_head vfsmount_group_list;
/*
* Defines all of the event types in which this group is interested.
* This mask is a bitwise OR of the FS_* events from above. Each time
* this mask changes for a group (if it changes) the correct functions
* must be called to update the global structures which indicate global
* interest in event types.
*/
__u32 mask;
/*
* How the refcnt is used is up to each group. When the refcnt hits 0
* fsnotify will clean up all of the resources associated with this group.
@ -367,8 +358,6 @@ static inline void __fsnotify_d_instantiate(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode
/* get a reference to an existing or create a new group */
extern struct fsnotify_group *fsnotify_alloc_group(const struct fsnotify_ops *ops);
/* run all marks associated with this group and update group->mask */
extern void fsnotify_recalc_group_mask(struct fsnotify_group *group);
/* drop reference on a group from fsnotify_alloc_group */
extern void fsnotify_put_group(struct fsnotify_group *group);