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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2009-09-08 17:55:54 -0700
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2009-09-08 17:55:54 -0700
commit9134d02bc0af4a8747d448d1f811ec5f8eb96df6 (patch)
tree704c3e5dcc10f360815c4868a74711f82fb62e27 /fs/block_dev.c
parentbbb20089a3275a19e475dbc21320c3742e3ca423 (diff)
parent80ffb3cceaefa405f2ecd46d66500ed8d53efe74 (diff)
Merge commit 'md/for-linus' into async-tx-next
Conflicts: drivers/md/raid5.c
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/block_dev.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/block_dev.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 3a6d4fb2a32..94dfda24c06 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -564,6 +564,16 @@ struct block_device *bdget(dev_t dev)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdget);
+/**
+ * bdgrab -- Grab a reference to an already referenced block device
+ * @bdev: Block device to grab a reference to.
+ */
+struct block_device *bdgrab(struct block_device *bdev)
+{
+ atomic_inc(&bdev->bd_inode->i_count);
+ return bdev;
+}
+
long nr_blockdev_pages(void)
{
struct block_device *bdev;