IGET5_LOCKED

Section: (9)
Updated: 09 October 2005
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NAME

iget5_locked - obtain an inode from a mounted file system  

SYNOPSIS

"SYNOPSIS"

struct inode * iget5_locked (struct super_block * sb, unsigned long hashval, int (*test) struct inode *, void *, int (*set) struct inode *, void *, void * data);  

ARGUMENTS

sb
super block of file system
hashval
hash value (usually inode number) to get
test
callback used for comparisons between inodes
set
callback used to initialize a new struct inode
data
opaque data pointer to pass to test and set
 

DESCRIPTION

This is iget without the read_inode portion of get_new_inode.

iget5_locked uses ifind to search for the inode specified by hashval and data in the inode cache and if present it is returned with an increased reference count. This is a generalized version of iget_locked for file systems where the inode number is not sufficient for unique identification of an inode.

If the inode is not in cache, get_new_inode is called to allocate a new inode and this is returned locked, hashed, and with the I_NEW flag set. The file system gets to fill it in before unlocking it via unlock_new_inode.

Note both test and set are called with the inode_lock held, so can't sleep.


 

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