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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] vfs: export lseek_execute() to modules
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 05:55:13 -0700
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On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 07:52:24PM +0800, Jeff Liu wrote:
> From: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
> 
> For those file systems(btrfs/ext4/xfs/ocfs2/tmpfs) that support
> SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE functions, we end up handling the similar
> matter in lseek_execute() to verify the final offset.
> 
> To reduce the duplications, this patch make lseek_execute() public
> accessible so that we can call it directly from them.
> 
> Thanks Dave Chinner for this suggestion.

Please add a kerneldoc comment explaining the use of this function.