Un-inline get_pipe_info() helper function
This avoids some include-file hell, and the function isn't really
important enough to be inlined anyway.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index b8997f8..04629f3 100644
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -1199,6 +1199,18 @@
return ret;
}
+/*
+ * After the inode slimming patch, i_pipe/i_bdev/i_cdev share the same
+ * location, so checking ->i_pipe is not enough to verify that this is a
+ * pipe.
+ */
+struct pipe_inode_info *get_pipe_info(struct file *file)
+{
+ struct inode *i = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
+
+ return S_ISFIFO(i->i_mode) ? i->i_pipe : NULL;
+}
+
long pipe_fcntl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
{
struct pipe_inode_info *pipe;
diff --git a/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h b/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
index 3c5ac314..bb27d7e 100644
--- a/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
+++ b/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
@@ -160,17 +160,6 @@
/* for F_SETPIPE_SZ and F_GETPIPE_SZ */
long pipe_fcntl(struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long arg);
-
-/*
- * After the inode slimming patch, i_pipe/i_bdev/i_cdev share the same
- * location, so checking ->i_pipe is not enough to verify that this is a
- * pipe.
- */
-static inline struct pipe_inode_info *get_pipe_info(struct file *file)
-{
- struct inode *i = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
-
- return S_ISFIFO(i->i_mode) ? i->i_pipe : NULL;
-}
+struct pipe_inode_info *get_pipe_info(struct file *file);
#endif