To provide fsnotify object inodes being watched without
binding to alphabetical path we need to encode them with
exportfs help. This patch adds a helper which operates
with plain inodes directly.

This feature is CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE only.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcu...@openvz.org>
CC: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobri...@gmail.com>
CC: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Pavel Emelyanov <xe...@parallels.com>
CC: James Bottomley <jbottom...@parallels.com>
---
 fs/exportfs/expfs.c      |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/exportfs.h |    4 ++++
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6.git/fs/exportfs/expfs.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/fs/exportfs/expfs.c
+++ linux-2.6.git/fs/exportfs/expfs.c
@@ -302,6 +302,27 @@ out:
        return error;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
+int export_encode_inode_fh(struct inode *inode, struct fid *fid, int *max_len)
+{
+       int len = *max_len;
+       int type = FILEID_INO32_GEN;
+
+       if (len < 2) {
+               *max_len = 2;
+               return 255;
+       }
+
+       len = 2;
+       fid->i32.ino = inode->i_ino;
+       fid->i32.gen = inode->i_generation;
+       *max_len = len;
+
+       return type;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(export_encode_inode_fh);
+#endif
+
 /**
  * export_encode_fh - default export_operations->encode_fh function
  * @inode:   the object to encode
Index: linux-2.6.git/include/linux/exportfs.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/include/linux/exportfs.h
+++ linux-2.6.git/include/linux/exportfs.h
@@ -177,6 +177,10 @@ struct export_operations {
        int (*commit_metadata)(struct inode *inode);
 };
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
+extern int export_encode_inode_fh(struct inode *inode, struct fid *fid, int 
*max_len);
+#endif
+
 extern int exportfs_encode_fh(struct dentry *dentry, struct fid *fid,
        int *max_len, int connectable);
 extern struct dentry *exportfs_decode_fh(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct fid *fid,

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