This simple helper saves some filesystems conversion from byte offset to page numbers and also makes the fdata* interface more complete. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- include/linux/fs.h | 2 ++ mm/filemap.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 73e9b64..dde471a 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -2076,6 +2076,8 @@ extern int write_inode_now(struct inode *, int); extern int filemap_fdatawrite(struct address_space *); extern int filemap_flush(struct address_space *); extern int filemap_fdatawait(struct address_space *); +extern int filemap_fdatawait_range(struct address_space *, loff_t lstart, + loff_t lend); extern int filemap_write_and_wait(struct address_space *mapping); extern int filemap_write_and_wait_range(struct address_space *mapping, loff_t lstart, loff_t lend); diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index ccea3b6..65b2e50 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -307,6 +307,26 @@ int wait_on_page_writeback_range(struct address_space *mapping, } /** + * filemap_fdatawait_range - wait for all under-writeback pages to complete in a given range + * @mapping: address space structure to wait for + * @start: offset in bytes where the range starts + * @end: offset in bytes where the range ends (inclusive) + * + * Walk the list of under-writeback pages of the given address space + * in the given range and wait for all of them. + * + * This is just a simple wrapper so that callers don't have to convert offsets + * to page indexes themselves + */ +int filemap_fdatawait_range(struct address_space *mapping, loff_t start, + loff_t end) +{ + return wait_on_page_writeback_range(mapping, start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT, + end >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_fdatawait_range); + +/** * sync_page_range - write and wait on all pages in the passed range * @inode: target inode * @mapping: target address_space -- 1.6.0.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html