Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the vfs tree

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Tue Aug 03 2010 - 21:48:02 EST


Hi Al,

On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:25:20 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> After merging the vfs tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
>
> fs/cifs/cifsfs.c:498: error: unknown field 'clear_inode' specified in initializer
>
> Caused by commit 139f224817a203ff434eda5e6d3f457bc1579f27 ("cifs: define
> inode-level cache object and register them") from the cifs tree
> interacting with commit a8036d5aec0547a2bd7e3040c69bd172e474d860
> ("convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode()") from the vfs
> tree.
>
> I added the following merge fix patch (by effectively copy and paste from
> some of the other file system fixups in the vfs commit). I have no idea
> if this is correct - someone should check. I can carry this patch as
> necessary.

The cifs tree has been merged by Linus, so this patch can be applied to
the vfs tree, now.

From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:15:47 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] cifs: fix for clear_inode -> evict_inode API change

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/cifs/cifsfs.c | 6 ++++--
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
index ba893b9..2fc5ed1 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
@@ -330,8 +330,10 @@ cifs_destroy_inode(struct inode *inode)
}

static void
-cifs_clear_inode(struct inode *inode)
+cifs_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
{
+ truncate_inode_pages(&inode->i_data, 0);
+ end_writeback(inode);
cifs_fscache_release_inode_cookie(inode);
}

@@ -495,7 +497,7 @@ static const struct super_operations cifs_super_ops = {
.alloc_inode = cifs_alloc_inode,
.destroy_inode = cifs_destroy_inode,
.drop_inode = cifs_drop_inode,
- .clear_inode = cifs_clear_inode,
+ .evict_inode = cifs_evict_inode,
/* .delete_inode = cifs_delete_inode, */ /* Do not need above
function unless later we add lazy close of inodes or unless the
kernel forgets to call us with the same number of releases (closes)
--
1.7.1

--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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