Despite it's name it's now a generic implementation of ->setattr, but rather a helper to copy attributes from a struct iattr to the inode. Rename it to setattr_copy to reflect this fact. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6/fs/attr.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/attr.c 2010-05-31 10:16:11.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/attr.c 2010-05-31 10:17:30.331254661 +0200 @@ -105,13 +105,13 @@ out_big: EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_newsize_ok); /** - * generic_setattr - copy simple metadata updates into the generic inode + * setattr_copy - copy simple metadata updates into the generic inode * @inode: the inode to be updated * @attr: the new attributes * - * generic_setattr must be called with i_mutex held. + * setattr_copy must be called with i_mutex held. * - * generic_setattr updates the inode's metadata with that specified + * setattr_copy updates the inode's metadata with that specified * in attr. Noticably missing is inode size update, which is more complex * as it requires pagecache updates. See simple_setsize. * @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_newsize_ok); * that for "simple" filesystems, the struct inode is the inode storage. * The caller is free to mark the inode dirty afterwards if needed. */ -void generic_setattr(struct inode *inode, const struct iattr *attr) +void setattr_copy(struct inode *inode, const struct iattr *attr) { unsigned int ia_valid = attr->ia_valid; @@ -144,11 +144,11 @@ void generic_setattr(struct inode *inode inode->i_mode = mode; } } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_setattr); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(setattr_copy); /* * note this function is deprecated, the new truncate sequence should be - * used instead -- see eg. simple_setsize, generic_setattr. + * used instead -- see eg. simple_setsize, setattr_copy. */ int inode_setattr(struct inode *inode, const struct iattr *attr) { @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ int inode_setattr(struct inode *inode, c return error; } - generic_setattr(inode, attr); + setattr_copy(inode, attr); mark_inode_dirty(inode); Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext2/inode.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext2/inode.c 2010-05-31 10:16:08.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/ext2/inode.c 2010-05-31 10:17:30.332254940 +0200 @@ -1544,7 +1544,7 @@ int ext2_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, if (error) return error; } - generic_setattr(inode, iattr); + setattr_copy(inode, iattr); if (iattr->ia_valid & ATTR_MODE) error = ext2_acl_chmod(inode); mark_inode_dirty(inode); Index: linux-2.6/fs/fat/file.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/fat/file.c 2010-05-31 10:15:57.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/fat/file.c 2010-05-31 10:17:30.345254940 +0200 @@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ int fat_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, s goto out; } - generic_setattr(inode, attr); + setattr_copy(inode, attr); mark_inode_dirty(inode); out: return error; Index: linux-2.6/fs/libfs.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/libfs.c 2010-05-31 10:16:11.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/libfs.c 2010-05-31 10:18:04.781254519 +0200 @@ -395,8 +395,7 @@ int simple_setattr(struct dentry *dentry return error; } - generic_setattr(inode, iattr); - + setattr_copy(inode, iattr); return error; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_setattr); Index: linux-2.6/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c 2010-05-31 10:15:57.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c 2010-05-31 10:17:30.353254032 +0200 @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ static int ramfs_nommu_setattr(struct de } } - generic_setattr(inode, ia); + setattr_copy(inode, ia); out: ia->ia_valid = old_ia_valid; return ret; Index: linux-2.6/fs/sysfs/inode.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/sysfs/inode.c 2010-05-31 10:15:57.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/sysfs/inode.c 2010-05-31 10:17:30.358254172 +0200 @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ int sysfs_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, goto out; /* this ignores size changes */ - generic_setattr(inode, iattr); + setattr_copy(inode, iattr); error = sysfs_sd_setattr(sd, iattr); Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/fs.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/fs.h 2010-05-31 10:15:57.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/fs.h 2010-05-31 10:17:30.363254032 +0200 @@ -2379,7 +2379,7 @@ extern int buffer_migrate_page(struct ad extern int inode_change_ok(const struct inode *, struct iattr *); extern int inode_newsize_ok(const struct inode *, loff_t offset); extern int __must_check inode_setattr(struct inode *, const struct iattr *); -extern void generic_setattr(struct inode *inode, const struct iattr *attr); +extern void setattr_copy(struct inode *inode, const struct iattr *attr); extern void file_update_time(struct file *file); Index: linux-2.6/mm/shmem.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/shmem.c 2010-05-31 10:15:57.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/mm/shmem.c 2010-05-31 10:17:30.368253403 +0200 @@ -810,7 +810,7 @@ static int shmem_notify_change(struct de error = inode_change_ok(inode, attr); if (!error) - generic_setattr(inode, attr); + setattr_copy(inode, attr); #ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL if (!error && (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_MODE)) error = generic_acl_chmod(inode); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html