IGET5_LOCKED

Section: The Linux VFS (9)
Updated: February 2011
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NAME

iget5_locked - obtain an inode from a mounted file system  

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

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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