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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/buffer_head.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/buffer_head.h | 26 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h index 9f159baf153f..fb7e9b7ccbe3 100644 --- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h +++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h @@ -46,25 +46,28 @@ struct address_space; typedef void (bh_end_io_t)(struct buffer_head *bh, int uptodate); /* - * Keep related fields in common cachelines. The most commonly accessed - * field (b_state) goes at the start so the compiler does not generate - * indexed addressing for it. + * Historically, a buffer_head was used to map a single block + * within a page, and of course as the unit of I/O through the + * filesystem and block layers. Nowadays the basic I/O unit + * is the bio, and buffer_heads are used for extracting block + * mappings (via a get_block_t call), for tracking state within + * a page (via a page_mapping) and for wrapping bio submission + * for backward compatibility reasons (e.g. submit_bh). */ struct buffer_head { - /* First cache line: */ unsigned long b_state; /* buffer state bitmap (see above) */ struct buffer_head *b_this_page;/* circular list of page's buffers */ struct page *b_page; /* the page this bh is mapped to */ - atomic_t b_count; /* users using this block */ - u32 b_size; /* block size */ - sector_t b_blocknr; /* block number */ - char *b_data; /* pointer to data block */ + sector_t b_blocknr; /* start block number */ + size_t b_size; /* size of mapping */ + char *b_data; /* pointer to data within the page */ struct block_device *b_bdev; bh_end_io_t *b_end_io; /* I/O completion */ void *b_private; /* reserved for b_end_io */ struct list_head b_assoc_buffers; /* associated with another mapping */ + atomic_t b_count; /* users using this buffer_head */ }; /* @@ -189,8 +192,8 @@ extern int buffer_heads_over_limit; * address_spaces. */ int try_to_release_page(struct page * page, gfp_t gfp_mask); -int block_invalidatepage(struct page *page, unsigned long offset); -int do_invalidatepage(struct page *page, unsigned long offset); +void block_invalidatepage(struct page *page, unsigned long offset); +void do_invalidatepage(struct page *page, unsigned long offset); int block_write_full_page(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block, struct writeback_control *wbc); int block_read_full_page(struct page*, get_block_t*); @@ -200,7 +203,7 @@ int cont_prepare_write(struct page*, unsigned, unsigned, get_block_t*, int generic_cont_expand(struct inode *inode, loff_t size); int generic_cont_expand_simple(struct inode *inode, loff_t size); int block_commit_write(struct page *page, unsigned from, unsigned to); -int block_sync_page(struct page *); +void block_sync_page(struct page *); sector_t generic_block_bmap(struct address_space *, sector_t, get_block_t *); int generic_commit_write(struct file *, struct page *, unsigned, unsigned); int block_truncate_page(struct address_space *, loff_t, get_block_t *); @@ -277,6 +280,7 @@ map_bh(struct buffer_head *bh, struct super_block *sb, sector_t block) set_buffer_mapped(bh); bh->b_bdev = sb->s_bdev; bh->b_blocknr = block; + bh->b_size = sb->s_blocksize; } /* |
