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authorTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2007-06-23 10:17:16 -0400
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2007-07-10 23:40:34 -0400
commit5e1550d6a2c2dd33ff0ca5febefd8e9c65c6ca1e (patch)
tree719d24d2da4fb1c68edd9207436edb1fa40ccb09
parent64c91a1f1c8bc4295fd6b90df8adf911a7dd64f4 (diff)
SUNRPC: Add the helper function 'rpc_call_null()'
Does a NULL RPC call and returns a pointer to the resulting rpc_task. The call may be either synchronous or asynchronous. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h2
-rw-r--r--net/sunrpc/clnt.c10
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h
index a0e51e19328..097984b0385 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h
@@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ int rpc_call_async(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, struct rpc_message *msg,
void *calldata);
int rpc_call_sync(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, struct rpc_message *msg,
int flags);
+struct rpc_task *rpc_call_null(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, struct rpc_cred *cred,
+ int flags);
void rpc_restart_call(struct rpc_task *);
void rpc_clnt_sigmask(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, sigset_t *oldset);
void rpc_clnt_sigunmask(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, sigset_t *oldset);
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
index 4e91f311093..5a28ffac99e 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
@@ -1455,6 +1455,16 @@ static int rpc_ping(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, int flags)
return err;
}
+struct rpc_task *rpc_call_null(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, struct rpc_cred *cred, int flags)
+{
+ struct rpc_message msg = {
+ .rpc_proc = &rpcproc_null,
+ .rpc_cred = cred,
+ };
+ return rpc_do_run_task(clnt, &msg, flags, &rpc_default_ops, NULL);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(rpc_call_null);
+
#ifdef RPC_DEBUG
void rpc_show_tasks(void)
{