From 140e049c64ce848392adbf4678983ecc76888dde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Trond Myklebust Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 17:42:42 -0500 Subject: NFS: Add a helper to set attribute barriers Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust Tested-by: Chuck Lever --- fs/nfs/inode.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/nfs') 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; -- cgit v1.2.3