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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/buffer.c | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/buffer_head.h | 10 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index e5beca3868a7..60829312787a 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -1242,9 +1242,12 @@ void __brelse(struct buffer_head *bh) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__brelse); -/* - * bforget() is like brelse(), except it discards any - * potentially dirty data. +/** + * __bforget - Discard any dirty data in a buffer. + * @bh: The buffer to forget. + * + * This variant of bforget() can be called if @bh is guaranteed to not + * be NULL. */ void __bforget(struct buffer_head *bh) { diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h index c145817c6ca0..a1c0bdd0cca6 100644 --- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h +++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h @@ -325,6 +325,16 @@ static inline void brelse(struct buffer_head *bh) __brelse(bh); } +/** + * bforget - Discard any dirty data in a buffer. + * @bh: The buffer to forget. + * + * Call this function instead of brelse() if the data written to a buffer + * no longer needs to be written back. It will clear the buffer's dirty + * flag so writeback of this buffer will be skipped. + * + * Context: Any context. + */ static inline void bforget(struct buffer_head *bh) { if (bh) |