From cb2c0233755429037462e16ea0d5497a0092738c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Fasheh Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 17:56:03 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] export generic_drop_inode() to modules OCFS2 wants to mark an inode which has been orphaned by another node so that during final iput it takes the correct path through the VFS and can pass through the OCFS2 delete_inode callback. Since i_nlink can get out of date with other nodes, the best way I see to accomplish this is by clearing i_nlink on those inodes at drop_inode time. Other than this small amount of work, nothing different needs to happen, so I think it would be cleanest to be able to just call generic_drop_inode at the end of the OCFS2 drop_inode callback. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/inode.c | 4 +++- include/linux/fs.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index 1f9a3a2b89bc..6d695037a0a3 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@ static void generic_forget_inode(struct inode *inode) * inode when the usage count drops to zero, and * i_nlink is zero. */ -static void generic_drop_inode(struct inode *inode) +void generic_drop_inode(struct inode *inode) { if (!inode->i_nlink) generic_delete_inode(inode); @@ -1060,6 +1060,8 @@ static void generic_drop_inode(struct inode *inode) generic_forget_inode(inode); } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(generic_drop_inode); + /* * Called when we're dropping the last reference * to an inode. diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 047bde30836a..302ec20838ca 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -1435,6 +1435,7 @@ extern struct inode * igrab(struct inode *); extern ino_t iunique(struct super_block *, ino_t); extern int inode_needs_sync(struct inode *inode); extern void generic_delete_inode(struct inode *inode); +extern void generic_drop_inode(struct inode *inode); extern struct inode *ilookup5(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long hashval, int (*test)(struct inode *, void *), void *data);