51 files changed, 62 insertions, 64 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 33f2c8f1db81..e0cce2a5f820 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ d_manage:	no		no		yes (ref-walk)	maybe
 
 --------------------------- inode_operations --------------------------- 
 prototypes:
-        int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t, struct nameidata *);
+        int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t, bool);
         struct dentry * (*lookup) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, unsigned int);
         int (*link) (struct dentry *,struct inode *,struct dentry *);
         int (*unlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *);
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index 690f573928b9..2bef2b3843d1 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -436,3 +436,9 @@ d_make_root() drops the reference to inode if dentry allocation fails.
 [mandatory]
         The witch is dead!  Well, 2/3 of it, anyway.  ->d_revalidate() and
 ->lookup() do *not* take struct nameidata anymore; just the flags.
+--
+[mandatory]
+        ->create() doesn't take struct nameidata *; unlike the previous
+two, it gets "is it an O_EXCL or equivalent?" boolean argument.  Note that
+local filesystems can ignore tha argument - they are guaranteed that the
+object doesn't exist.  It's remote/distributed ones that might care...
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index ee786354946c..aa754e01464e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ This describes how the VFS can manipulate an inode in your
 filesystem. As of kernel 2.6.22, the following members are defined:
 
 struct inode_operations {
-        int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, umode_t, struct nameidata *);
+        int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, umode_t, bool);
         struct dentry * (*lookup) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, unsigned int);
         int (*link) (struct dentry *,struct inode *,struct dentry *);
         int (*unlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *);
diff --git a/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c b/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
index bb0d7627f95b..cbf9dbb1b2a2 100644
--- a/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/9p/vfs_inode.c
@@ -725,7 +725,7 @@ error:
 
 static int
 v9fs_vfs_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode,
-                struct nameidata *nd)
+                bool excl)
 {
         struct v9fs_session_info *v9ses = v9fs_inode2v9ses(dir);
         u32 perm = unixmode2p9mode(v9ses, mode);
diff --git a/fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c b/fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c
index b97619fed196..40895546e103 100644
--- a/fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c
+++ b/fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ int v9fs_open_to_dotl_flags(int flags)
 
 static int
 v9fs_vfs_create_dotl(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t omode,
-                struct nameidata *nd)
+                bool excl)
 {
         return v9fs_vfs_mknod_dotl(dir, dentry, omode, 0);
 }
diff --git a/fs/affs/affs.h b/fs/affs/affs.h
index 49e4e3457bfd..6e216419f340 100644
--- a/fs/affs/affs.h
+++ b/fs/affs/affs.h
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ extern void	affs_free_bitmap(struct super_block *sb);
 extern int      affs_hash_name(struct super_block *sb, const u8 *name, unsigned int len);
 extern struct dentry *affs_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int);
 extern int      affs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry);
-extern int      affs_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode, struct nameidata *);
+extern int      affs_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode, bool);
 extern int      affs_mkdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode);
 extern int      affs_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry);
 extern int      affs_link(struct dentry *olddentry, struct inode *dir,
diff --git a/fs/affs/namei.c b/fs/affs/namei.c
index 7f9721be709f..ff65884a7839 100644
--- a/fs/affs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/affs/namei.c
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ affs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 }
 
 int
-affs_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode, struct nameidata *nd)
+affs_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode, bool excl)
 {
         struct super_block *sb = dir->i_sb;
         struct inode    *inode;
diff --git a/fs/afs/dir.c b/fs/afs/dir.c
index ffb33e36ea72..db477906ba4f 100644
--- a/fs/afs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/afs/dir.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ static void afs_d_release(struct dentry *dentry);
 static int afs_lookup_filldir(void *_cookie, const char *name, int nlen,
                                   loff_t fpos, u64 ino, unsigned dtype);
 static int afs_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode,
-                      struct nameidata *nd);
+                      bool excl);
 static int afs_mkdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode);
 static int afs_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry);
 static int afs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry);
@@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ error:
  * create a regular file on an AFS filesystem
  */
 static int afs_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode,
-                      struct nameidata *nd)
+                      bool excl)
 {
         struct afs_file_status status;
         struct afs_callback cb;
diff --git a/fs/bad_inode.c b/fs/bad_inode.c
index d27e73c69ba4..b1342ffb3cf6 100644
--- a/