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| author | Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> | 2010-04-16 16:22:45 -0400 |
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| committer | Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> | 2010-05-14 15:09:21 -0400 |
| commit | 2d36bfde8565b315e624302d12da5a7c9d195522 (patch) | |
| tree | 5760ff58853027df0343c6bab0530025cd7a6fa1 /fs/nfs | |
| parent | fc54a0c65fc8cae6b0355512f0b619c1515e7d7f (diff) | |
NFS: Add helper functions for allocating filehandles and fattr structs
NFS Filehandles and struct fattr are really too large to be allocated on
the stack. This patch adds in a couple of helper functions to allocate them
dynamically instead.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/nfs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/nfs/inode.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c index 50a56edca0b..0f9852ab87b 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c @@ -916,6 +916,26 @@ void nfs_fattr_init(struct nfs_fattr *fattr) fattr->gencount = nfs_inc_attr_generation_counter(); } +struct nfs_fattr *nfs_alloc_fattr(void) +{ + struct nfs_fattr *fattr; + + fattr = kmalloc(sizeof(*fattr), GFP_NOFS); + if (fattr != NULL) + nfs_fattr_init(fattr); + return fattr; +} + +struct nfs_fh *nfs_alloc_fhandle(void) +{ + struct nfs_fh *fh; + + fh = kmalloc(sizeof(struct nfs_fh), GFP_NOFS); + if (fh != NULL) + fh->size = 0; + return fh; +} + /** * nfs_inode_attrs_need_update - check if the inode attributes need updating * @inode - pointer to inode |