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author | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2015-01-21 20:03:40 +0000 |
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committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2015-02-17 12:21:51 -0500 |
commit | e59b4e9187bd5175b9845dc10fedb0879b7efbfd (patch) | |
tree | d1194fe02bcb93cd0fbf4924c9756158717338e9 /fs | |
parent | 77b3da6e3232d3b4d4b8addb4b05799fe98f3bf8 (diff) | |
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debugfs: Provide a file creation function that also takes an initial size
Provide a file creation function that also takes an initial size so that the
caller doesn't have to set i_size, thus meaning that we don't have to call
deal with ->d_inode in the callers.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/debugfs/inode.c | 40 |
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c index 957c40ce09f6..45b18a5e225c 100644 --- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c @@ -338,6 +338,46 @@ struct dentry *debugfs_create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode, EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_create_file); /** + * debugfs_create_file_size - create a file in the debugfs filesystem + * @name: a pointer to a string containing the name of the file to create. + * @mode: the permission that the file should have. + * @parent: a pointer to the parent dentry for this file. This should be a + * directory dentry if set. If this parameter is NULL, then the + * file will be created in the root of the debugfs filesystem. + * @data: a pointer to something that the caller will want to get to later + * on. The inode.i_private pointer will point to this value on + * the open() call. + * @fops: a pointer to a struct file_operations that should be used for + * this file. + * @file_size: initial file size + * + * This is the basic "create a file" function for debugfs. It allows for a + * wide range of flexibility in creating a file, or a directory (if you want + * to create a directory, the debugfs_create_dir() function is + * recommended to be used instead.) + * + * This function will return a pointer to a dentry if it succeeds. This + * pointer must be passed to the debugfs_remove() function when the file is + * to be removed (no automatic cleanup happens if your module is unloaded, + * you are responsible here.) If an error occurs, %NULL will be returned. + * + * If debugfs is not enabled in the kernel, the value -%ENODEV will be + * returned. + */ +struct dentry *debugfs_create_file_size(const char *name, umode_t mode, + struct dentry *parent, void *data, + const struct file_operations *fops, + loff_t file_size) +{ + struct dentry *de = debugfs_create_file(name, mode, parent, data, fops); + + if (de) + de->d_inode->i_size = file_size; + return de; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_create_file_size); + +/** * debugfs_create_dir - create a directory in the debugfs filesystem * @name: a pointer to a string containing the name of the directory to * create. |