[PATCH] Streamline generic_file_* interfaces and filemap cleanups

This patch cleans up generic_file_*_read/write() interfaces.  Christoph
Hellwig gave me the idea for this clean ups.

In a nutshell, all filesystems should set .aio_read/.aio_write methods and use
do_sync_read/ do_sync_write() as their .read/.write methods.  This allows us
to cleanup all variants of generic_file_* routines.

Final available interfaces:

generic_file_aio_read() - read handler
generic_file_aio_write() - write handler
generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - no lock write handler

__generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - internal worker routine

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This commit is contained in:
Badari Pulavarty 2006-09-30 23:28:48 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent ee0b3e671b
commit 543ade1fc9
27 changed files with 105 additions and 165 deletions

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@ -1154,14 +1154,6 @@ static int blkdev_close(struct inode * inode, struct file * filp)
return blkdev_put(bdev);
}
static ssize_t blkdev_file_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = (void __user *)buf, .iov_len = count };
return generic_file_write_nolock(file, &local_iov, 1, ppos);
}
static long block_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg)
{
return blkdev_ioctl(file->f_mapping->host, file, cmd, arg);
@ -1181,8 +1173,8 @@ const struct file_operations def_blk_fops = {
.open = blkdev_open,
.release = blkdev_close,
.llseek = block_llseek,
.read = generic_file_read,
.write = blkdev_file_write,
.read = do_sync_read,
.write = do_sync_write,
.aio_read = generic_file_aio_read,
.aio_write = generic_file_aio_write_nolock,
.mmap = generic_file_mmap,