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Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/filemap.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index 01e7e0869bba..f1aa20ab8434 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -550,6 +550,28 @@ int filemap_fdatawait_range(struct address_space *mapping, loff_t start_byte, EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_fdatawait_range); /** + * filemap_fdatawait_range_keep_errors - wait for writeback to complete + * @mapping: address space structure to wait for + * @start_byte: offset in bytes where the range starts + * @end_byte: offset in bytes where the range ends (inclusive) + * + * Walk the list of under-writeback pages of the given address space in the + * given range and wait for all of them. Unlike filemap_fdatawait_range(), + * this function does not clear error status of the address space. + * + * Use this function if callers don't handle errors themselves. Expected + * call sites are system-wide / filesystem-wide data flushers: e.g. sync(2), + * fsfreeze(8) + */ +int filemap_fdatawait_range_keep_errors(struct address_space *mapping, + loff_t start_byte, loff_t end_byte) +{ + __filemap_fdatawait_range(mapping, start_byte, end_byte); + return filemap_check_and_keep_errors(mapping); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_fdatawait_range_keep_errors); + +/** * file_fdatawait_range - wait for writeback to complete * @file: file pointing to address space structure to wait for * @start_byte: offset in bytes where the range starts |