fs, exportfs: add exportfs_encode_inode_fh() helper

We will need this helper in the next patch to provide a file handle for
inotify marks in /proc/pid/fdinfo output.

The patch is rather providing the way to use inodes directly when dentry
is not available (like in case of inotify system).

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Helsley <matt.helsley@gmail.com>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@onelan.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Cyrill Gorcunov 2012-12-17 16:05:08 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent ab49bdecc3
commit 711c7bf991
2 changed files with 16 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -177,6 +177,8 @@ struct export_operations {
int (*commit_metadata)(struct inode *inode);
};
extern int exportfs_encode_inode_fh(struct inode *inode, struct fid *fid,
int *max_len, struct inode *parent);
extern int exportfs_encode_fh(struct dentry *dentry, struct fid *fid,
int *max_len, int connectable);
extern struct dentry *exportfs_decode_fh(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct fid *fid,