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authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2009-12-17 21:24:22 -0500
committerEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2010-07-28 09:58:50 -0400
commitffab83402f01555a5fa32efb48a4dd0ce8d12ef5 (patch)
tree4e02fa7422becb56e6ed4b8721f8b0fb3a867d44 /fs
parentfsnotify: fsnotify_obtain_group kzalloc cleanup (diff)
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fsnotify: fsnotify_obtain_group should be fsnotify_alloc_group
fsnotify_obtain_group was intended to be able to find an already existing group. Nothing uses that functionality. This just renames it to fsnotify_alloc_group so it is clear what it is doing. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/notify/group.c10
-rw-r--r--fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c2
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c b/fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c
index 1f46aeac3387..51e4fe33d6bb 100644
--- a/fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/dnotify/dnotify.c
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ static int __init dnotify_init(void)
dnotify_struct_cache = KMEM_CACHE(dnotify_struct, SLAB_PANIC);
dnotify_mark_entry_cache = KMEM_CACHE(dnotify_mark_entry, SLAB_PANIC);
- dnotify_group = fsnotify_obtain_group(0, &dnotify_fsnotify_ops);
+ dnotify_group = fsnotify_alloc_group(0, &dnotify_fsnotify_ops);
if (IS_ERR(dnotify_group))
panic("unable to allocate fsnotify group for dnotify\n");
return 0;
diff --git a/fs/notify/group.c b/fs/notify/group.c
index 934860e98095..1d20d26d5fee 100644
--- a/fs/notify/group.c
+++ b/fs/notify/group.c
@@ -162,16 +162,13 @@ void fsnotify_put_group(struct fsnotify_group *group)
}
/*
- * Either finds an existing group which matches the group_num, mask, and ops or
- * creates a new group and adds it to the global group list. In either case we
- * take a reference for the group returned.
+ * Create a new fsnotify_group and hold a reference for the group returned.
*/
-struct fsnotify_group *fsnotify_obtain_group(__u32 mask,
- const struct fsnotify_ops *ops)
+struct fsnotify_group *fsnotify_alloc_group(__u32 mask,
+ const struct fsnotify_ops *ops)
{
struct fsnotify_group *group;
- /* very low use, simpler locking if we just always alloc */
group = kzalloc(sizeof(struct fsnotify_group), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!group)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
@@ -192,7 +189,6 @@ struct fsnotify_group *fsnotify_obtain_group(__u32 mask,
mutex_lock(&fsnotify_grp_mutex);
- /* group not found, add a new one */
list_add_rcu(&group->group_list, &fsnotify_groups);
group->on_group_list = 1;
/* being on the fsnotify_groups list holds one num_marks */
diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
index cae317f5bd9d..25a2854186e9 100644
--- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
@@ -695,7 +695,7 @@ static struct fsnotify_group *inotify_new_group(struct user_struct *user, unsign
{
struct fsnotify_group *group;
- group = fsnotify_obtain_group(0, &inotify_fsnotify_ops);
+ group = fsnotify_alloc_group(0, &inotify_fsnotify_ops);
if (IS_ERR(group))
return group;