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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2007-10-16 01:25:01 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-16 09:42:55 -0700
commitafddba49d18f346e5cc2938b6ed7c512db18ca68 (patch)
tree4726e3d3b0e9e8e5b5d3b2b0cccb36446bbdf3ca /include/linux
parent637aff46f94a754207c80c8c64bf1b74f24b967d (diff)
fs: introduce write_begin, write_end, and perform_write aops
These are intended to replace prepare_write and commit_write with more flexible alternatives that are also able to avoid the buffered write deadlock problems efficiently (which prepare_write is unable to do). [mark.fasheh@oracle.com: API design contributions, code review and fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes] [dmonakhov@sw.ru: new aop block_write_begin fix] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/buffer_head.h10
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h30
-rw-r--r--include/linux/pagemap.h2
3 files changed, 41 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
index 35cadad84b1..a562ecfb1a1 100644
--- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h
+++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
@@ -203,6 +203,16 @@ void block_invalidatepage(struct page *page, unsigned long offset);
int block_write_full_page(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block,
struct writeback_control *wbc);
int block_read_full_page(struct page*, get_block_t*);
+int block_write_begin(struct file *, struct address_space *,
+ loff_t, unsigned, unsigned,
+ struct page **, void **, get_block_t*);
+int block_write_end(struct file *, struct address_space *,
+ loff_t, unsigned, unsigned,
+ struct page *, void *);
+int generic_write_end(struct file *, struct address_space *,
+ loff_t, unsigned, unsigned,
+ struct page *, void *);
+void page_zero_new_buffers(struct page *page, unsigned from, unsigned to);
int block_prepare_write(struct page*, unsigned, unsigned, get_block_t*);
int cont_prepare_write(struct page*, unsigned, unsigned, get_block_t*,
loff_t *);
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 86ce27c7255..e9344e6f877 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -394,6 +394,8 @@ enum positive_aop_returns {
AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE = 0x80001,
};
+#define AOP_FLAG_UNINTERRUPTIBLE 0x0001 /* will not do a short write */
+
/*
* oh the beauties of C type declarations.
*/
@@ -413,7 +415,7 @@ size_t iov_iter_copy_from_user_atomic(struct page *page,
size_t iov_iter_copy_from_user(struct page *page,
struct iov_iter *i, unsigned long offset, size_t bytes);
void iov_iter_advance(struct iov_iter *i, size_t bytes);
-int iov_iter_fault_in_readable(struct iov_iter *i);
+int iov_iter_fault_in_readable(struct iov_iter *i, size_t bytes);
size_t iov_iter_single_seg_count(struct iov_iter *i);
static inline void iov_iter_init(struct iov_iter *i,
@@ -454,6 +456,14 @@ struct address_space_operations {
*/
int (*prepare_write)(struct file *, struct page *, unsigned, unsigned);
int (*commit_write)(struct file *, struct page *, unsigned, unsigned);
+
+ int (*write_begin)(struct file *, struct address_space *mapping,
+ loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned flags,
+ struct page **pagep, void **fsdata);
+ int (*write_end)(struct file *, struct address_space *mapping,
+ loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned copied,
+ struct page *page, void *fsdata);
+
/* Unfortunately this kludge is needed for FIBMAP. Don't use it */
sector_t (*bmap)(struct address_space *, sector_t);
void (*invalidatepage) (struct page *, unsigned long);
@@ -468,6 +478,18 @@ struct address_space_operations {
int (*launder_page) (struct page *);
};
+/*
+ * pagecache_write_begin/pagecache_write_end must be used by general code
+ * to write into the pagecache.
+ */
+int pagecache_write_begin(struct file *, struct address_space *mapping,
+ loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned flags,
+ struct page **pagep, void **fsdata);
+
+int pagecache_write_end(struct file *, struct address_space *mapping,
+ loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned copied,
+ struct page *page, void *fsdata);
+
struct backing_dev_info;
struct address_space {
struct inode *host; /* owner: inode, block_device */
@@ -1866,6 +1888,12 @@ extern int simple_prepare_write(struct file *file, struct page *page,
unsigned offset, unsigned to);
extern int simple_commit_write(struct file *file, struct page *page,
unsigned offset, unsigned to);
+extern int simple_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
+ loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned flags,
+ struct page **pagep, void **fsdata);
+extern int simple_write_end(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
+ loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned copied,
+ struct page *page, void *fsdata);
extern struct dentry *simple_lookup(struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct nameidata *);
extern ssize_t generic_read_dir(struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h
index 8f1e390fd71..db8a410ae9e 100644
--- a/include/linux/pagemap.h
+++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h
@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ unsigned find_get_pages_contig(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t start,
unsigned find_get_pages_tag(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t *index,
int tag, unsigned int nr_pages, struct page **pages);
+struct page *__grab_cache_page(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t index);
+
/*
* Returns locked page at given index in given cache, creating it if needed.
*/