This patch introduces helper function to read the number of sectors
from struct block_device->bd_part member. For more details Please refer
to the comment in the include/linux/genhd.h for part_nr_sects_read().
Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@xxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/blkdev.h | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 0c482371c8b3..578383712093 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -1464,6 +1464,11 @@ static inline void put_dev_sector(Sector p)
put_page(p.v);
}
+static inline sector_t bdev_nr_sects(struct block_device *bdev)
+{
+ return part_nr_sects_read(bdev->bd_part);
+}
+
int kblockd_schedule_work(struct work_struct *work);
int kblockd_schedule_work_on(int cpu, struct work_struct *work);
int kblockd_mod_delayed_work_on(int cpu, struct delayed_work *dwork, unsigned long delay);
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2.17.0
