From 4ea3ada2955e4519befa98ff55dd62d6dfbd1705 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:48:57 +0200 Subject: [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 Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- include/linux/dcache.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/dcache.h') diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h index efba1de629ac..2404257d6c67 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 *); -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2