linux-hardened/include/linux/mpage.h
Andrew Morton d17d7fa44d [PATCH] revert ext3-writepages-support-for-writeback-mode
This had a fatal lock ranking bug: we do journal_start outside
mpage_writepages()'s lock_page().

Revert the whole thing, think again.

Credit-to: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

For identifying the bug.

Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05 16:36:44 -07:00

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/*
* include/linux/mpage.h
*
* Contains declarations related to preparing and submitting BIOS which contain
* multiple pagecache pages.
*/
/*
* (And no, it doesn't do the #ifdef __MPAGE_H thing, and it doesn't do
* nested includes. Get it right in the .c file).
*/
struct writeback_control;
typedef int (writepage_t)(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc);
int mpage_readpages(struct address_space *mapping, struct list_head *pages,
unsigned nr_pages, get_block_t get_block);
int mpage_readpage(struct page *page, get_block_t get_block);
int mpage_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
struct writeback_control *wbc, get_block_t get_block);
int mpage_writepage(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block,
struct writeback_control *wbc);
static inline int
generic_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc)
{
return mpage_writepages(mapping, wbc, NULL);
}