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| author | Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> | 2014-06-04 16:07:46 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-06-04 16:54:02 -0700 |
| commit | 47a191fd38ebddb1bd1510ec2bc1085c578c8868 (patch) | |
| tree | 5c65289e7195f4ecd445b2b55e8d44cfa7e7ea00 /include/linux/blkdev.h | |
| parent | 57d998456ae8680ed446aa1993f45f4d8a9a5973 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-47a191fd38ebddb1bd1510ec2bc1085c578c8868.tar.gz lwn-47a191fd38ebddb1bd1510ec2bc1085c578c8868.zip | |
fs/block_dev.c: add bdev_read_page() and bdev_write_page()
A block device driver may choose to provide a rw_page operation. These
will be called when the filesystem is attempting to do page sized I/O to
page cache pages (ie not for direct I/O). This does preclude I/Os that
are larger than page size, so this may only be a performance gain for
some devices.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Tested-by: Dheeraj Reddy <dheeraj.reddy@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/blkdev.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/blkdev.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index 45cf6e537c83..2f3886e6cc78 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -1588,6 +1588,7 @@ static inline bool blk_integrity_is_initialized(struct gendisk *g) struct block_device_operations { int (*open) (struct block_device *, fmode_t); void (*release) (struct gendisk *, fmode_t); + int (*rw_page)(struct block_device *, sector_t, struct page *, int rw); int (*ioctl) (struct block_device *, fmode_t, unsigned, unsigned long); int (*compat_ioctl) (struct block_device *, fmode_t, unsigned, unsigned long); int (*direct_access) (struct block_device *, sector_t, @@ -1606,6 +1607,9 @@ struct block_device_operations { extern int __blkdev_driver_ioctl(struct block_device *, fmode_t, unsigned int, unsigned long); +extern int bdev_read_page(struct block_device *, sector_t, struct page *); +extern int bdev_write_page(struct block_device *, sector_t, struct page *, + struct writeback_control *); #else /* CONFIG_BLOCK */ struct block_device; |