From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
hch@infradead.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Turn do_sync_file_range() into do_sync_mapping_range()
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:30:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070320223041.22e24403.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070320214626.GC23274@ca-server1.us.oracle.com>
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:46:26 -0700 Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> wrote:
> do_sync_file_range() accepts a file * from which it takes an address_space
> to sync. Abstract out the bulk of the function into do_sync_mapping_range()
> which takes the address_space directly. This way callers who want to sync an
> address_space directly can take advantage of the functionality provided.
>
> do_sync_file_range() is preserved as a 3 line wrapper around
> do_sync_mapping_range().
>
> Ocfs2 in particular would like to use this to initiate a sync of a specific
> inode range during truncate, where a file * may not be available.
I think we can remove do_sync_file_range() altogether?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-21 6:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-20 21:46 [PATCH] Turn do_sync_file_range() into do_sync_mapping_range() Mark Fasheh
2007-03-21 6:30 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-03-21 14:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-21 16:12 ` Mark Fasheh
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