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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: npiggin@suse.de
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 01/11] fs: new truncate helpers
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:38:11 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A94E663.90705@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090820164050.401703779@suse.de>

Hi,

On 08/20/2009 07:35 PM, npiggin@suse.de wrote:
> +/**
> + * inode_newsize_ok - may this inode be truncated to a given size
> + * @inode:	the inode to be truncated
> + * @offset:	the new size to assign to the inode
> + * @Returns:	0 on success, -ve errno on failure
> + *
> + * inode_newsize_ok will check filesystem limits and ulimits to check that the
> + * new inode size is within limits. inode_newsize_ok will also send SIGXFSZ
> + * when necessary. Caller must not proceed with inode size change if failure is
> + * returned. @inode must be a file (not directory), with appropriate
> + * permissions to allow truncate (inode_newsize_ok does NOT check these
> + * conditions).
> + *
> + * inode_newsize_ok must be called with i_mutex held.
> + */
> +int inode_newsize_ok(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset)
> +{

Could you use 'const' for inode here?

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-26  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-20 16:35 [patch 00/11] new truncate sequence npiggin
2009-08-20 16:35 ` [patch 01/11] fs: new truncate helpers npiggin
2009-08-26  7:38   ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2009-09-07  7:33     ` Nick Piggin
2009-09-07  7:48       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-08-20 16:35 ` [patch 02/11] fs: use " npiggin-l3A5Bk7waGM
2009-08-20 16:35 ` [patch 03/11] fs: introduce new truncate sequence npiggin
2009-08-26  7:40   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-08-20 16:35 ` [patch 04/11] fs: convert simple fs to new truncate npiggin
2009-08-20 16:35 ` [patch 05/11] tmpfs: convert to use the new truncate convention npiggin
2009-08-20 16:35 ` [patch 06/11] ext2: " npiggin
2009-08-21 13:42   ` Jan Kara
2009-08-21 14:06     ` Jan Kara
2009-08-24  5:30       ` [patch] ext2: convert to use the new truncate convention fix Nick Piggin
2009-08-20 16:35 ` [patch 07/11] fat: convert to use the new truncate convention npiggin
2009-08-20 16:35 ` [patch 08/11] btrfs: " npiggin
2009-08-20 16:35 ` [patch 09/11] jfs: " npiggin
2009-08-20 16:35 ` [patch 10/11] udf: " npiggin
2009-08-21 14:22   ` Jan Kara
2009-08-24  5:33     ` Nick Piggin
2009-08-20 16:35 ` [patch 11/11] minix: " npiggin
2009-09-09  7:11 ` [patch 00/11] new truncate sequence Artem Bityutskiy
2009-09-22 15:04 ` Al Viro
2009-09-22 20:00   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-22 21:51     ` Al Viro
2009-09-22 23:27       ` Al Viro
2009-09-22 23:58         ` Al Viro
2009-09-23  2:29           ` Al Viro
2009-09-27 19:50             ` Nick Piggin
2009-12-07 12:49             ` Nick Piggin
2009-12-07 22:46               ` Tyler Hicks
2009-09-22 20:53 ` [PATCH 12/n] kill spurious reference to vmtruncate Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-22 20:54 ` [PATCH 13/n] xfs: new truncate sequence Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-22 20:55 ` [PATCH 14/n] sysv: " Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-22 20:56 ` [PATCH 15/n] ntfs: " Christoph Hellwig

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