From d3bccb6f4b886060aa0f58976b92b77d951f5434 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:30:27 +0200 Subject: vfs: Introduce filemap_fdatawait_range This simple helper saves some filesystems conversion from byte offset to page numbers and also makes the fdata* interface more complete. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jan Kara --- mm/filemap.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) (limited to 'mm/filemap.c') diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index ccea3b665c12..65b2e50efcd0 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -306,6 +306,26 @@ int wait_on_page_writeback_range(struct address_space *mapping, return ret; } +/** + * filemap_fdatawait_range - wait for all under-writeback pages to complete in a given range + * @mapping: address space structure to wait for + * @start: offset in bytes where the range starts + * @end: offset in bytes where the range ends (inclusive) + * + * Walk the list of under-writeback pages of the given address space + * in the given range and wait for all of them. + * + * This is just a simple wrapper so that callers don't have to convert offsets + * to page indexes themselves + */ +int filemap_fdatawait_range(struct address_space *mapping, loff_t start, + loff_t end) +{ + return wait_on_page_writeback_range(mapping, start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT, + end >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_fdatawait_range); + /** * sync_page_range - write and wait on all pages in the passed range * @inode: target inode -- cgit v1.2.1