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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Turn do_sync_file_range() into do_sync_mapping_range()
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:44:26PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 02:46:26PM -0700, Mark Fasheh 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.
>
> Looks good to me, but I agree with Andrew that we should simply
> kill do_sync_file_range, espcially as at least one of the callers
> has file->f_mapping guaranteed != NULL;

Ok - I'll post an updated patch series today. Thank you all for taking the
time to look at this.
--Mark

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Mark Fasheh
Senior Software Developer, Oracle
mark.fasheh@oracle.com
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