From afddba49d18f346e5cc2938b6ed7c512db18ca68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:25:01 -0700
Subject: 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>
---
 include/linux/buffer_head.h | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

(limited to 'include/linux/buffer_head.h')

diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
index 35cadad84b14..a562ecfb1a14 100644
--- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h
+++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
@@ -203,6 +203,16 @@ void block_invalidatepage(struct page *page, unsigned long offset);
 int block_write_full_page(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block,
 				struct writeback_control *wbc);
 int block_read_full_page(struct page*, get_block_t*);
+int block_write_begin(struct file *, struct address_space *,
+				loff_t, unsigned, unsigned,
+				struct page **, void **, get_block_t*);
+int block_write_end(struct file *, struct address_space *,
+				loff_t, unsigned, unsigned,
+				struct page *, void *);
+int generic_write_end(struct file *, struct address_space *,
+				loff_t, unsigned, unsigned,
+				struct page *, void *);
+void page_zero_new_buffers(struct page *page, unsigned from, unsigned to);
 int block_prepare_write(struct page*, unsigned, unsigned, get_block_t*);
 int cont_prepare_write(struct page*, unsigned, unsigned, get_block_t*,
 				loff_t *);
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