Merge tag 'fsnotify_for_v5.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs

Pull fsnotify updates from Jan Kara:
 "Support for reporting filesystem errors through fanotify so that
  system health monitoring daemons can watch for these and act instead
  of scraping system logs"

* tag 'fsnotify_for_v5.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: (34 commits)
  samples: remove duplicate include in fs-monitor.c
  samples: Fix warning in fsnotify sample
  docs: Fix formatting of literal sections in fanotify docs
  samples: Make fs-monitor depend on libc and headers
  docs: Document the FAN_FS_ERROR event
  samples: Add fs error monitoring example
  ext4: Send notifications on error
  fanotify: Allow users to request FAN_FS_ERROR events
  fanotify: Emit generic error info for error event
  fanotify: Report fid info for file related file system errors
  fanotify: WARN_ON against too large file handles
  fanotify: Add helpers to decide whether to report FID/DFID
  fanotify: Wrap object_fh inline space in a creator macro
  fanotify: Support merging of error events
  fanotify: Support enqueueing of error events
  fanotify: Pre-allocate pool of error events
  fanotify: Reserve UAPI bits for FAN_FS_ERROR
  fsnotify: Support FS_ERROR event type
  fanotify: Require fid_mode for any non-fd event
  fanotify: Encode empty file handle when no inode is provided
  ...

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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/filesystem-monitoring.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/filesystem-monitoring.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ab8dba76283c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/filesystem-monitoring.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+====================================
+File system Monitoring with fanotify
+====================================
+
+File system Error Reporting
+===========================
+
+Fanotify supports the FAN_FS_ERROR event type for file system-wide error
+reporting.  It is meant to be used by file system health monitoring
+daemons, which listen for these events and take actions (notify
+sysadmin, start recovery) when a file system problem is detected.
+
+By design, a FAN_FS_ERROR notification exposes sufficient information
+for a monitoring tool to know a problem in the file system has happened.
+It doesn't necessarily provide a user space application with semantics
+to verify an IO operation was successfully executed.  That is out of
+scope for this feature.  Instead, it is only meant as a framework for
+early file system problem detection and reporting recovery tools.
+
+When a file system operation fails, it is common for dozens of kernel
+errors to cascade after the initial failure, hiding the original failure
+log, which is usually the most useful debug data to troubleshoot the
+problem.  For this reason, FAN_FS_ERROR tries to report only the first
+error that occurred for a file system since the last notification, and
+it simply counts additional errors.  This ensures that the most
+important pieces of information are never lost.
+
+FAN_FS_ERROR requires the fanotify group to be setup with the
+FAN_REPORT_FID flag.
+
+At the time of this writing, the only file system that emits FAN_FS_ERROR
+notifications is Ext4.
+
+A FAN_FS_ERROR Notification has the following format::
+
+  ::
+
+     [ Notification Metadata (Mandatory) ]
+     [ Generic Error Record  (Mandatory) ]
+     [ FID record            (Mandatory) ]
+
+The order of records is not guaranteed, and new records might be added
+in the future.  Therefore, applications must not rely on the order and
+must be prepared to skip over unknown records. Please refer to
+``samples/fanotify/fs-monitor.c`` for an example parser.
+
+Generic error record
+--------------------
+
+The generic error record provides enough information for a file system
+agnostic tool to learn about a problem in the file system, without
+providing any additional details about the problem.  This record is
+identified by ``struct fanotify_event_info_header.info_type`` being set
+to FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_ERROR.
+
+  ::
+
+     struct fanotify_event_info_error {
+          struct fanotify_event_info_header hdr;
+         __s32 error;
+         __u32 error_count;
+     };
+
+The `error` field identifies the type of error using errno values.
+`error_count` tracks the number of errors that occurred and were
+suppressed to preserve the original error information, since the last
+notification.
+
+FID record
+----------
+
+The FID record can be used to uniquely identify the inode that triggered
+the error through the combination of fsid and file handle.  A file system
+specific application can use that information to attempt a recovery
+procedure.  Errors that are not related to an inode are reported with an
+empty file handle of type FILEID_INVALID.
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
index dc00afcabb95..1bedab498104 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ configure specific aspects of kernel behavior to your liking.
    edid
    efi-stub
    ext4
+   filesystem-monitoring
    nfs/index
    gpio/index
    highuid