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| author | Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com> | 2015-02-26 23:42:42 +0100 |
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| committer | Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com> | 2015-03-02 05:23:05 +0100 |
| commit | 140e049c64ce848392adbf4678983ecc76888dde (patch) | |
| tree | 1a278473e70aec757b36a2a2b4d7382e52f7b5b8 /fs/nfs/inode.c | |
| parent | NFS: Ensure that buffered writes wait for O_DIRECT writes to complete (diff) | |
| download | linux-140e049c64ce848392adbf4678983ecc76888dde.tar.xz linux-140e049c64ce848392adbf4678983ecc76888dde.zip | |
NFS: Add a helper to set attribute barriers
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Tested-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/nfs/inode.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/nfs/inode.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c index 83107be3dd01..b0cbc1ba82da 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c @@ -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; |