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authorRussell King <rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk>2009-09-12 12:02:26 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2009-09-12 12:02:26 +0100
commitddd559b13f6d2fe3ad68c4b3f5235fd3c2eae4e3 (patch)
treed827bca3fc825a0ac33efbcd493713be40fcc812 /fs/block_dev.c
parentcf7a2b4fb6a9b86779930a0a123b0df41aa9208f (diff)
parentf17a1f06d2fa93f4825be572622eb02c4894db4e (diff)
Merge branch 'devel-stable' into devel
Conflicts: MAINTAINERS arch/arm/mm/fault.c
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/block_dev.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/block_dev.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 3a6d4fb2a32..94dfda24c06 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -564,6 +564,16 @@ struct block_device *bdget(dev_t dev)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdget);
+/**
+ * bdgrab -- Grab a reference to an already referenced block device
+ * @bdev: Block device to grab a reference to.
+ */
+struct block_device *bdgrab(struct block_device *bdev)
+{
+ atomic_inc(&bdev->bd_inode->i_count);
+ return bdev;
+}
+
long nr_blockdev_pages(void)
{
struct block_device *bdev;