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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2007-10-16 01:25:01 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-16 09:42:55 -0700
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fs: introduce write_begin, write_end, and perform_write aops
These are intended to replace prepare_write and commit_write with more flexible alternatives that are also able to avoid the buffered write deadlock problems efficiently (which prepare_write is unable to do). [mark.fasheh@oracle.com: API design contributions, code review and fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes] [dmonakhov@sw.ru: new aop block_write_begin fix] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h
index 8f1e390fd71b..db8a410ae9e1 100644
--- a/include/linux/pagemap.h
+++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h
@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ unsigned find_get_pages_contig(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t start,
unsigned find_get_pages_tag(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t *index,
int tag, unsigned int nr_pages, struct page **pages);
+struct page *__grab_cache_page(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t index);
+
/*
* Returns locked page at given index in given cache, creating it if needed.
*/