1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>new_inode</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Linux Filesystems API"><link rel="up" href="inode_handling.html" title="Inode Handling"><link rel="prev" href="API---remove-inode-hash.html" title="__remove_inode_hash"><link rel="next" href="API-unlock-new-inode.html" title="unlock_new_inode"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span class="phrase">new_inode</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API---remove-inode-hash.html">Prev</a>&#160;</td><th width="60%" align="center">Inode Handling</th><td width="20%" align="right">&#160;<a accesskey="n" href="API-unlock-new-inode.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="API-new-inode"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>new_inode &#8212; 
2     obtain an inode
3 </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">struct inode * <b class="fsfunc">new_inode </b>(</code></td><td>struct super_block * <var class="pdparam">sb</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer">&#160;</div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1101685084"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>sb</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
4     superblock
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6   Allocates a new inode for given superblock. The default gfp_mask
7   for allocations related to inode-&gt;i_mapping is GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE.
8   If HIGHMEM pages are unsuitable or it is known that pages allocated
9   for the page cache are not reclaimable or migratable,
10   <code class="function">mapping_set_gfp_mask</code> must be called with suitable flags on the
11   newly created inode's mapping
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