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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2010-10-23 15:23:40 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2010-10-25 21:24:15 -0400
commit756acc2d61712a8cafe2aa6ad626c60a185d3645 (patch)
tree72473307f7789b2dafa4b7ca2facc6427f83a283
parent1d3382cbf02986e4833849f528d451367ea0b4cb (diff)
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list.h: new helper - hlist_add_fake()
Make node look as if it was on hlist, with hlist_del() working correctly. Usable without any locking... Convert a couple of places where we want to do that to inode->i_hash. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
-rw-r--r--fs/hfsplus/inode.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/list.h6
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/hfsplus/inode.c b/fs/hfsplus/inode.c
index 78449280dae0..8afd7e84f98d 100644
--- a/fs/hfsplus/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hfsplus/inode.c
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static struct dentry *hfsplus_file_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dent
* appear hashed, but do not put on any lists. hlist_del()
* will work fine and require no locking.
*/
- inode->i_hash.pprev = &inode->i_hash.next;
+ hlist_add_fake(&inode->i_hash);
mark_inode_dirty(inode);
out:
diff --git a/fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c b/fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c
index f8332dc8eeb2..3a09423b6c22 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ struct inode *diReadSpecial(struct super_block *sb, ino_t inum, int secondary)
* appear hashed, but do not put on any lists. hlist_del()
* will work fine and require no locking.
*/
- ip->i_hash.pprev = &ip->i_hash.next;
+ hlist_add_fake(&ip->i_hash);
return (ip);
}
diff --git a/include/linux/list.h b/include/linux/list.h
index 88a000617d77..9a5f8a71810c 100644
--- a/include/linux/list.h
+++ b/include/linux/list.h
@@ -636,6 +636,12 @@ static inline void hlist_add_after(struct hlist_node *n,
next->next->pprev = &next->next;
}
+/* after that we'll appear to be on some hlist and hlist_del will work */
+static inline void hlist_add_fake(struct hlist_node *n)
+{
+ n->pprev = &n->next;
+}
+
/*
* Move a list from one list head to another. Fixup the pprev
* reference of the first entry if it exists.