<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ANSI_X3.4-1968" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968" /><title>journal_restart</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Linux Filesystems API" /><link rel="up" href="ch05s03.html#transaction_level" title="Transasction Level" /><link rel="prev" href="re194.html" title="journal_extend" /><link rel="next" href="re196.html" title="journal_lock_updates" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span>journal_restart</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="re194.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Transasction Level</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="re196.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="refentry" title="journal_restart"><a id="API-journal-restart"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>journal_restart — restart a handle. </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" summary="Function synopsis" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="funcprototype-table"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">int <b class="fsfunc">journal_restart </b>(</code></td><td>handle_t * <var class="pdparam">handle</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>int <var class="pdparam">nblocks</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Arguments"><a id="id3128583"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>handle</code></em></span></dt><dd><p> handle to restart </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>nblocks</code></em></span></dt><dd><p> nr credits requested </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="Description"><a id="id3128627"></a><h2>Description</h2><p> Restart a handle for a multi-transaction filesystem operation. </p><p> If the <code class="function">journal_extend</code> call above fails to grant new buffer credits to a running handle, a call to journal_restart will commit the handle's transaction so far and reattach the handle to a new transaction capabable of guaranteeing the requested number of credits. </p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="re194.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="ch05s03.html#transaction_level">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="re196.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top"><span>journal_extend</span> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> <span>journal_lock_updates</span></td></tr></table></div></body></html>