[PATCH] (1/5) beginning of getattr series.

	added new helpers - vfs_stat(), vfs_lstat() and vfs_fstat().
	fs/stat.c switched to use them.

Following patches will

	stat(2) variants in arch/* that used to copy inode fields manually
	switched to vfs_*stat() and partially cleaned up

	irix_...() switched from sys_new*stat() to vfs_*stat() and cleaned
	up.  Missing LFS check added.

	similar for solaris ones

	ditto for x86 compatibility ones on ia64.

We are almost ready to switch to ->getattr() - let filesystem decide what
values should go into ->st_... (e.g. for CODA life would become much
easier if it could just use ->i_size of caching file, for supermount
we want ->i_ino inherited from underlying fs, etc.)

Another thing that needs to be done is fixing the rest of LFS/uid size
fsckups in architecture-specific variants of stat() - I've fixed several,
but quite a few are still there.

include/linux/fs.h

@@ -1475,6 +1475,10 @@ extern struct inode_operations page_symlink_inode_operations;
 extern int vfs_readdir(struct file *, filldir_t, void *);
 extern int dcache_readdir(struct file *, void *, filldir_t);
 
+extern int vfs_stat(char *, struct kstat *);
+extern int vfs_lstat(char *, struct kstat *);
+extern int vfs_fstat(unsigned int, struct kstat *);
+
 extern struct file_system_type *get_fs_type(const char *name);
 extern struct super_block *get_super(kdev_t);
 extern void drop_super(struct super_block *sb);

include/linux/stat.h

@@ -52,6 +52,25 @@
 #define S_IRUGO		(S_IRUSR|S_IRGRP|S_IROTH)
 #define S_IWUGO		(S_IWUSR|S_IWGRP|S_IWOTH)
 #define S_IXUGO		(S_IXUSR|S_IXGRP|S_IXOTH)
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+struct kstat {
+	unsigned long	ino;
+	dev_t		dev;
+	umode_t		mode;
+	nlink_t		nlink;
+	uid_t		uid;
+	gid_t		gid;
+	dev_t		rdev;
+	loff_t		size;
+	time_t		atime;
+	time_t		mtime;
+	time_t		ctime;
+	unsigned long	blksize;
+	unsigned long	blocks;
+};
+
 #endif
 
 #endif