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NFS: Add a helper to set attribute barriers

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Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Tested-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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Trond Myklebust 2015-02-26 17:42:42 -05:00
parent aa5accea40
commit 140e049c64
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fs/nfs/inode.c
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@ -1260,6 +1260,22 @@ void nfs_fattr_init(struct nfs_fattr *fattr)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nfs_fattr_init);
/**
* nfs_fattr_set_barrier
* @fattr: attributes
*
* Used to set a barrier after an attribute was updated. This
* barrier ensures that older attributes from RPC calls that may
* have raced with our update cannot clobber these new values.
* Note that you are still responsible for ensuring that other
* operations which change the attribute on the server do not
* collide.
*/
void nfs_fattr_set_barrier(struct nfs_fattr *fattr)
{
fattr->gencount = nfs_inc_attr_generation_counter();
}
struct nfs_fattr *nfs_alloc_fattr(void)
{
struct nfs_fattr *fattr;

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include/linux/nfs_fs.h
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@ -369,6 +369,7 @@ extern struct nfs_lock_context *nfs_get_lock_context(struct nfs_open_context *ct
extern void nfs_put_lock_context(struct nfs_lock_context *l_ctx);
extern u64 nfs_compat_user_ino64(u64 fileid);
extern void nfs_fattr_init(struct nfs_fattr *fattr);
extern void nfs_fattr_set_barrier(struct nfs_fattr *fattr);
extern unsigned long nfs_inc_attr_generation_counter(void);
extern struct nfs_fattr *nfs_alloc_fattr(void);