fs: introduce write_begin, write_end, and perform_write aops

These are intended to replace prepare_write and commit_write with more
flexible alternatives that are also able to avoid the buffered write
deadlock problems efficiently (which prepare_write is unable to do).

[mark.fasheh@oracle.com: API design contributions, code review and fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes]
[dmonakhov@sw.ru: new aop block_write_begin fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nick Piggin 2007-10-16 01:25:01 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 637aff46f9
commit afddba49d1
11 changed files with 575 additions and 206 deletions

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@ -203,6 +203,16 @@ void block_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*);
int block_write_begin(struct file *, struct address_space *,
loff_t, unsigned, unsigned,
struct page **, void **, get_block_t*);
int block_write_end(struct file *, struct address_space *,
loff_t, unsigned, unsigned,
struct page *, void *);
int generic_write_end(struct file *, struct address_space *,
loff_t, unsigned, unsigned,
struct page *, void *);
void page_zero_new_buffers(struct page *page, unsigned from, unsigned to);
int block_prepare_write(struct page*, unsigned, unsigned, get_block_t*);
int cont_prepare_write(struct page*, unsigned, unsigned, get_block_t*,
loff_t *);