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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 /include | |
| 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 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/nfs_fs.h | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h index 07ce4609fe5..77c2ae53431 100644 --- a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h +++ b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h @@ -356,6 +356,20 @@ extern struct nfs_open_context *nfs_find_open_context(struct inode *inode, struc extern u64 nfs_compat_user_ino64(u64 fileid); extern void nfs_fattr_init(struct nfs_fattr *fattr); +extern struct nfs_fattr *nfs_alloc_fattr(void); + +static inline void nfs_free_fattr(const struct nfs_fattr *fattr) +{ + kfree(fattr); +} + +extern struct nfs_fh *nfs_alloc_fhandle(void); + +static inline void nfs_free_fhandle(const struct nfs_fh *fh) +{ + kfree(fh); +} + /* linux/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c: trims ip addr off front of name, too. */ extern __be32 root_nfs_parse_addr(char *name); /*__init*/ extern unsigned long nfs_inc_attr_generation_counter(void); |