• Mikulas Patocka's avatar
    dm: add basic support for using the select or poll function · 93e6442c
    Mikulas Patocka authored
    Add the ability to poll on the /dev/mapper/control device.  The select
    or poll function waits until any event happens on any dm device since
    opening the /dev/mapper/control device.  When select or poll returns the
    device as readable, we must close and reopen the device to wait for new
    dm events.
    
    Usage:
    1. open the /dev/mapper/control device
    2. scan the event numbers of all devices we are interested in and process
       them
    3. call select, poll or epoll on the handle (it waits until some new event
       happens since opening the device)
    4. close the /dev/mapper/control handle
    5. go to step 1
    
    The next commit allows to re-arm the polling without closing and
    reopening the device.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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