@@ -3105,6 +3105,13 @@ int submit_bh(int op, int op_flags, struct buffer_head *bh)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(submit_bh);
+int submit_bh_write_hint(int op, int op_flags, struct buffer_head *bh,
+ enum rw_hint hint)
+{
+ return submit_bh_wbc(op, op_flags, bh, hint, NULL);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(submit_bh_write_hint);
+
/**
* ll_rw_block: low-level access to block devices (DEPRECATED)
* @op: whether to %READ or %WRITE
@@ -3162,6 +3169,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ll_rw_block);
void write_dirty_buffer(struct buffer_head *bh, int op_flags)
{
+ write_dirty_buffer_with_hint(bh, op_flags, 0);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_dirty_buffer);
+
+void write_dirty_buffer_with_hint(struct buffer_head *bh, int op_flags,
+ enum rw_hint hint)
+{
lock_buffer(bh);
if (!test_clear_buffer_dirty(bh)) {
unlock_buffer(bh);
@@ -3169,9 +3183,9 @@ void write_dirty_buffer(struct buffer_head *bh, int op_flags)
}
bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_write_sync;
get_bh(bh);
- submit_bh(REQ_OP_WRITE, op_flags, bh);
+ submit_bh_wbc(REQ_OP_WRITE, op_flags, bh, hint, NULL);
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_dirty_buffer);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_dirty_buffer_with_hint);
/*
* For a data-integrity writeout, we need to wait upon any in-progress I/O
@@ -200,7 +200,10 @@ void ll_rw_block(int, int, int, struct buffer_head * bh[]);
int sync_dirty_buffer(struct buffer_head *bh);
int __sync_dirty_buffer(struct buffer_head *bh, int op_flags);
void write_dirty_buffer(struct buffer_head *bh, int op_flags);
+void write_dirty_buffer_with_hint(struct buffer_head *bh, int op_flags,
+ enum rw_hint hint);
int submit_bh(int, int, struct buffer_head *);
+int submit_bh_write_hint(int, int, struct buffer_head *, enum rw_hint hint);
void write_boundary_block(struct block_device *bdev,
sector_t bblock, unsigned blocksize);
int bh_uptodate_or_lock(struct buffer_head *bh);
submit_bh and write_dirty_buffer do not take write-hint as parameter. This introduces variants which do, and pass write-hint to lower layer. Signed-off-by: Kanchan Joshi <joshi.k@samsung.com> --- fs/buffer.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- include/linux/buffer_head.h | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)