netfs: Provide func to copy data to pagecache for buffered write

Provide a netfs write helper, netfs_perform_write() to buffer data to be
written in the pagecache and mark the modified folios dirty.

It will perform "streaming writes" for folios that aren't currently
resident, if possible, storing data in partially modified folios that are
marked dirty, but not uptodate.  It will also tag pages as belonging to
fs-specific write groups if so directed by the filesystem.

This is derived from generic_perform_write(), but doesn't use
->write_begin() and ->write_end(), having that logic rolled in instead.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/netfs.h b/include/linux/netfs.h
index 890a5d8b2299..70f578cf3715 100644
--- a/include/linux/netfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/netfs.h
@@ -367,6 +367,11 @@ struct netfs_cache_ops {
 			       loff_t *_data_start, size_t *_data_len);
 };
 
+/* High-level write API */
+ssize_t netfs_perform_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
+			    struct netfs_group *netfs_group);
+
+/* Address operations API */
 struct readahead_control;
 void netfs_readahead(struct readahead_control *);
 int netfs_read_folio(struct file *, struct folio *);