[PATCH v3 01/18] VFS: introduce helpers for manipulation s_dirty flag

[Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>]

This patch introduces 3 new VFS helpers: 'mark_sb_dirty()',
'mark_sb_clean()', and 'is_sb_dirty()'. The helpers simply
set 'sb->s_dirt' or test 'sb->s_dirt'. The plan is to make
every FS use these helpers instead of manipulating
'sb->s_dirt' directly. And the further plan is to stop the
periodic write-back when there is no dirt.

This patch is just a preparation for further periodic write-back
timer optimizations. No functional changes yet.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
---
 include/linux/fs.h |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 8f0478c..d98d8d1 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1789,6 +1789,23 @@ extern int get_sb_pseudo(struct file_system_type *, char *,
 extern void simple_set_mnt(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct super_block *sb);
 int __put_super_and_need_restart(struct super_block *sb);
 
+/*
+ * Note, VFS does not provide any protection for the super block clean/dirty
+ * state. File-systems should take care of this.
+ */
+static inline void mark_sb_dirty(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+	sb->s_dirt = 1;
+}
+static inline void mark_sb_clean(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+	sb->s_dirt = 0;
+}
+static inline int is_sb_dirty(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+	return sb->s_dirt;
+}
+
 /* Alas, no aliases. Too much hassle with bringing module.h everywhere */
 #define fops_get(fops) \
 	(((fops) && try_module_get((fops)->owner) ? (fops) : NULL))
-- 
1.6.0.6