> +/** > + * mapping_seek_hole_data - Seek for SEEK_DATA / SEEK_HOLE in the page cache. > + * @mapping: Address space to search. > + * @start: First byte to consider. > + * @end: Limit of search (exclusive). > + * @whence: Either SEEK_HOLE or SEEK_DATA. > + * > + * If the page cache knows which blocks contain holes and which blocks > + * contain data, your filesystem can use this function to implement > + * SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA. This is useful for filesystems which are > + * entirely memory-based such as tmpfs, and filesystems which support > + * unwritten extents. > + * > + * Return: The requested offset on successs, or -ENXIO if @whence specifies > + * SEEK_DATA and there is no data after @start. There is an implicit hole > + * after @end - 1, so SEEK_HOLE returns @end if all the bytes between @start > + * and @end contain data. > + */ This seems to just lift the tmpfs one to common code. If it really is supposed to be generic it should be able to replace page_cache_seek_hole_data as well. So I don't think moving this without removing the other common one is an all that good idea.
