kernfs: introduce kernfs_pin_sb()
kernfs_pin_sb() tries to get a refcnt of the superblock.
This will be used by cgroupfs.
v2:
- make kernfs_pin_sb() return the superblock.
- drop kernfs_drop_sb().
tj: Updated the comment a bit.
[ This is a prerequisite for a bugfix. ]
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.15
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/kernfs.h b/include/linux/kernfs.h
index 17aa1cc..20f4935 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernfs.h
@@ -304,6 +304,7 @@
struct kernfs_root *root, unsigned long magic,
bool *new_sb_created, const void *ns);
void kernfs_kill_sb(struct super_block *sb);
+struct super_block *kernfs_pin_sb(struct kernfs_root *root, const void *ns);
void kernfs_init(void);