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authorMatthew Wilcox <[email protected]>2014-06-04 16:07:46 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2014-06-04 16:54:02 -0700
commit47a191fd38ebddb1bd1510ec2bc1085c578c8868 (patch)
tree5c65289e7195f4ecd445b2b55e8d44cfa7e7ea00 /include/linux
parent57d998456ae8680ed446aa1993f45f4d8a9a5973 (diff)
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 <[email protected]> Tested-by: Dheeraj Reddy <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Chinner <[email protected]> Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/blkdev.h4
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;