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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2013-10-02 22:35:11 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2013-11-09 00:16:27 -0500
commit6987843ff7e836ea65b554905aec34d2fad05c94 (patch)
treeb6a66c9d11b96ee6d03eef374e016ed855b25738 /fs/libfs.c
parent22a8cb8248ba5d340307ba72432253b1dbdb5cf7 (diff)
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take anon inode allocation to libfs.c
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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1 files changed, 43 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index 8c50184..5de0694 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -1002,3 +1002,46 @@ void kfree_put_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd,
kfree(s);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree_put_link);
+
+/*
+ * nop .set_page_dirty method so that people can use .page_mkwrite on
+ * anon inodes.
+ */
+static int anon_set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
+{
+ return 0;
+};
+
+/*
+ * A single inode exists for all anon_inode files. Contrary to pipes,
+ * anon_inode inodes have no associated per-instance data, so we need
+ * only allocate one of them.
+ */
+struct inode *alloc_anon_inode(struct super_block *s)
+{
+ static const struct address_space_operations anon_aops = {
+ .set_page_dirty = anon_set_page_dirty,
+ };
+ struct inode *inode = new_inode_pseudo(s);
+
+ if (!inode)
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+ inode->i_ino = get_next_ino();
+ inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &anon_aops;
+
+ /*
+ * Mark the inode dirty from the very beginning,
+ * that way it will never be moved to the dirty
+ * list because mark_inode_dirty() will think
+ * that it already _is_ on the dirty list.
+ */
+ inode->i_state = I_DIRTY;
+ inode->i_mode = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR;
+ inode->i_uid = current_fsuid();
+ inode->i_gid = current_fsgid();
+ inode->i_flags |= S_PRIVATE;
+ inode->i_atime = inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
+ return inode;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_anon_inode);
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