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-rw-r--r--fs/inode.c9
-rw-r--r--fs/nilfs2/page.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/ubifs/xattr.c4
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h2
4 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 5f4e11a..33c963d 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -125,6 +125,14 @@ __cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SPINLOCK(inode_wb_list_lock);
static DECLARE_RWSEM(iprune_sem);
/*
+ * Empty aops. Can be used for the cases where the user does not
+ * define any of the address_space operations.
+ */
+const struct address_space_operations empty_aops = {
+};
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(empty_aops);
+
+/*
* Statistics gathering..
*/
struct inodes_stat_t inodes_stat;
@@ -176,7 +184,6 @@ int proc_nr_inodes(ctl_table *table, int write,
*/
int inode_init_always(struct super_block *sb, struct inode *inode)
{
- static const struct address_space_operations empty_aops;
static const struct inode_operations empty_iops;
static const struct file_operations empty_fops;
struct address_space *const mapping = &inode->i_data;
diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/page.c b/fs/nilfs2/page.c
index 9d2dc6b..1168059 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/page.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/page.c
@@ -495,8 +495,6 @@ unsigned nilfs_page_count_clean_buffers(struct page *page,
void nilfs_mapping_init(struct address_space *mapping,
struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
- static const struct address_space_operations empty_aops;
-
mapping->host = NULL;
mapping->flags = 0;
mapping_set_gfp_mask(mapping, GFP_NOFS);
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/xattr.c b/fs/ubifs/xattr.c
index c74400f..3299f46 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/xattr.c
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
*/
#include "ubifs.h"
+#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/xattr.h>
#include <linux/posix_acl_xattr.h>
@@ -80,7 +81,6 @@ enum {
};
static const struct inode_operations none_inode_operations;
-static const struct address_space_operations none_address_operations;
static const struct file_operations none_file_operations;
/**
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ static int create_xattr(struct ubifs_info *c, struct inode *host,
}
/* Re-define all operations to be "nothing" */
- inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &none_address_operations;
+ inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &empty_aops;
inode->i_op = &none_inode_operations;
inode->i_fop = &none_file_operations;
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 52f283c..1b95af3 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -613,6 +613,8 @@ struct address_space_operations {
int (*error_remove_page)(struct address_space *, struct page *);
};
+extern const struct address_space_operations empty_aops;
+
/*
* pagecache_write_begin/pagecache_write_end must be used by general code
* to write into the pagecache.
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