From: Lino Sanfilippo Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:29:46 +0000 (+0200) Subject: fsnotify: introduce fsnotify_get_group() X-Git-Tag: next-20120411~25^2~12 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=159fbe33a7c7c9ecee7a131c5b1d28319b2108c0;p=karo-tx-linux.git fsnotify: introduce fsnotify_get_group() Introduce fsnotify_get_group() which increments the reference counter of a group. Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo Signed-off-by: Eric Paris --- diff --git a/fs/notify/group.c b/fs/notify/group.c index cfda328c3d11..1d57c35f1043 100644 --- a/fs/notify/group.c +++ b/fs/notify/group.c @@ -62,6 +62,14 @@ void fsnotify_destroy_group(struct fsnotify_group *group) fsnotify_final_destroy_group(group); } +/* + * Get reference to a group. + */ +void fsnotify_get_group(struct fsnotify_group *group) +{ + atomic_inc(&group->refcnt); +} + /* * Drop a reference to a group. Free it if it's through. */ diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h index afac09521006..a1450b3b3d3b 100644 --- a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h +++ b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h @@ -360,8 +360,10 @@ static inline void __fsnotify_d_instantiate(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode /* called from fsnotify listeners, such as fanotify or dnotify */ -/* get a reference to an existing or create a new group */ +/* create a new group */ extern struct fsnotify_group *fsnotify_alloc_group(const struct fsnotify_ops *ops); +/* get reference to a group */ +extern void fsnotify_get_group(struct fsnotify_group *group); /* drop reference on a group from fsnotify_alloc_group */ extern void fsnotify_put_group(struct fsnotify_group *group); /* destroy group */