[PATCH] fdtable: Provide free_fdtable() wrapper

Christoph Hellwig has expressed concerns that the recent fdtable changes
expose the details of the RCU methodology used to release no-longer-used
fdtable structures to the rest of the kernel.  The trivial patch below
addresses these concerns by introducing the appropriate free_fdtable()
calls, which simply wrap the release RCU usage.  Since free_fdtable() is a
one-liner, it makes sense to promote it to an inline helper.

Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/file.h b/include/linux/file.h
index edca361f2ab4..a59001e9ea58 100644
--- a/include/linux/file.h
+++ b/include/linux/file.h
@@ -80,6 +80,11 @@ extern int expand_files(struct files_struct *, int nr);
 extern void free_fdtable_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu);
 extern void __init files_defer_init(void);
 
+static inline void free_fdtable(struct fdtable *fdt)
+{
+        call_rcu(&fdt->rcu, free_fdtable_rcu);
+}
+
 static inline struct file * fcheck_files(struct files_struct *files, unsigned int fd)
 {
         struct file * file = NULL;