NFS: define a function to update nfsi->cache_change_attribute
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
index 32c666c..72d141a 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -638,6 +638,21 @@
return 0;
}
+/**
+ * nfs_force_lookup_revalidate - Mark the directory as having changed
+ * @dir - pointer to directory inode
+ *
+ * This forces the revalidation code in nfs_lookup_revalidate() to do a
+ * full lookup on all child dentries of 'dir' whenever a change occurs
+ * on the server that might have invalidated our dcache.
+ *
+ * The caller should be holding dir->i_lock
+ */
+void nfs_force_lookup_revalidate(struct inode *dir)
+{
+ NFS_I(dir)->cache_change_attribute = jiffies;
+}
+
/*
* A check for whether or not the parent directory has changed.
* In the case it has, we assume that the dentries are untrustworthy