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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2008-08-11 15:48:57 +0200 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2008-10-23 05:13:00 -0400 |
| commit | 4ea3ada2955e4519befa98ff55dd62d6dfbd1705 (patch) | |
| tree | b473278d0df8d869d183fbc0e4a1a07585de240a /include | |
| parent | 3a8cff4f026c0b98bee6291eb28d4df42feb76dc (diff) | |
[PATCH] new helper: d_obtain_alias
The calling conventions of d_alloc_anon are rather unfortunate for all
users, and it's name is not very descriptive either.
Add d_obtain_alias as a new exported helper that drops the inode
reference in the failure case, too and allows to pass-through NULL
pointers and inodes to allow for tail-calls in the export operations.
Incidentally this helper already existed as a private function in
libfs.c as exportfs_d_alloc so kill that one and switch the callers
to d_obtain_alias.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/dcache.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h index efba1de629a..2404257d6c6 100644 --- a/include/linux/dcache.h +++ b/include/linux/dcache.h @@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ extern struct dentry * d_alloc(struct dentry *, const struct qstr *); extern struct dentry * d_alloc_anon(struct inode *); extern struct dentry * d_splice_alias(struct inode *, struct dentry *); extern struct dentry * d_add_ci(struct dentry *, struct inode *, struct qstr *); +extern struct dentry * d_obtain_alias(struct inode *); extern void shrink_dcache_sb(struct super_block *); extern void shrink_dcache_parent(struct dentry *); extern void shrink_dcache_for_umount(struct super_block *); |