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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>2011-10-28 14:13:29 +0200
committerChristoph Hellwig <hch@serles.lst.de>2011-11-02 12:53:43 +0100
commitbfe8684869601dacfcb2cd69ef8cfd9045f62170 (patch)
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parent6d6b77f163c7eabedbba00ed2abb7d4a570bff76 (diff)
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filesystems: add set_nlink()
Replace remaining direct i_nlink updates with a new set_nlink() updater function. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 7a049fd2aa4c..48c1f5fc7411 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1755,6 +1755,19 @@ static inline void mark_inode_dirty_sync(struct inode *inode)
}
/**
+ * set_nlink - directly set an inode's link count
+ * @inode: inode
+ * @nlink: new nlink (should be non-zero)
+ *
+ * This is a low-level filesystem helper to replace any
+ * direct filesystem manipulation of i_nlink.
+ */
+static inline void set_nlink(struct inode *inode, unsigned int nlink)
+{
+ inode->i_nlink = nlink;
+}
+
+/**
* inc_nlink - directly increment an inode's link count
* @inode: inode
*