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Callers that want to create an inode currently pass all possible file attribute values for the new inode into xfs_init_new_inode as ten separate parameters. This causes two code maintenance issues: first, we have large multi-line call sites which programmers must read carefully to make sure they did not accidentally invert a value. Second, all three file id parameters must be passed separately to the quota functions; any discrepancy results in quota count errors. Clean this up by creating a new icreate_args structure to hold all this information, some helpers to initialize them properly, and make the callers pass this structure through to the creation function, whose name we shorten to xfs_icreate. This eliminates the issues, enables us to keep the inode init code in sync with userspace via libxfs, and is needed for future metadata directory tree management. (A subsequent cleanup will also fix the quota alloc calls.) Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.