From: Trond Myklebust Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:17:16 -0400 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 --- include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h | 2 ++ net/sunrpc/clnt.c | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h index a0e51e1..097984b 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 4e91f31..5a28ffa 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) {