The former is a no-op wrapper with the same argument. I left it in place to not lose the information who needs it -- one day "pseudo" inodes may start differing from what alloc_inode() returns. In the meantime no point taking a detour. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/inode.c | 29 ++++++++++++----------------- include/linux/fs.h | 6 +++++- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index 5587aabdaa5e..6e251e43bf70 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -327,7 +327,17 @@ static void i_callback(struct rcu_head *head) free_inode_nonrcu(inode); } -static struct inode *alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb) +/** + * alloc_inode - obtain an inode + * @sb: superblock + * + * Allocates a new inode for given superblock. + * Inode wont be chained in superblock s_inodes list + * This means : + * - fs can't be unmount + * - quotas, fsnotify, writeback can't work + */ +struct inode *alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb) { const struct super_operations *ops = sb->s_op; struct inode *inode; @@ -1159,21 +1169,6 @@ unsigned int get_next_ino(void) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_next_ino); -/** - * new_inode_pseudo - obtain an inode - * @sb: superblock - * - * Allocates a new inode for given superblock. - * Inode wont be chained in superblock s_inodes list - * This means : - * - fs can't be unmount - * - quotas, fsnotify, writeback can't work - */ -struct inode *new_inode_pseudo(struct super_block *sb) -{ - return alloc_inode(sb); -} - /** * new_inode - obtain an inode * @sb: superblock @@ -1190,7 +1185,7 @@ struct inode *new_inode(struct super_block *sb) { struct inode *inode; - inode = new_inode_pseudo(sb); + inode = alloc_inode(sb); if (inode) inode_sb_list_add(inode); return inode; diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 640949116cf9..ac5d699e3aab 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -3287,7 +3287,11 @@ static inline void __iget(struct inode *inode) extern void iget_failed(struct inode *); extern void clear_inode(struct inode *); extern void __destroy_inode(struct inode *); -extern struct inode *new_inode_pseudo(struct super_block *sb); +struct inode *alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb); +static inline struct inode *new_inode_pseudo(struct super_block *sb) +{ + return alloc_inode(sb); +} extern struct inode *new_inode(struct super_block *sb); extern void free_inode_nonrcu(struct inode *inode); extern int setattr_should_drop_suidgid(struct mnt_idmap *, struct inode *); -- 2.43.0