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authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2008-01-28 23:58:26 -0500
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2008-01-28 23:58:26 -0500
commit389d1b083c767a360ec84b27a95da06244becec8 (patch)
treea315c892f615545fd0ce72f7e0d660f5772fb4b2
parentbb4f397a1a7f2330cb173233599aa159f5780f58 (diff)
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Add buffer head related helper functions
Add buffer head related helper function bh_uptodate_or_lock and bh_submit_read which can be used by file system Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
-rw-r--r--fs/buffer.c44
-rw-r--r--include/linux/buffer_head.h2
2 files changed, 46 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 7249e01..456c9ab 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -3213,6 +3213,50 @@ static int buffer_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
return NOTIFY_OK;
}
+/**
+ * bh_uptodate_or_lock: Test whether the buffer is uptodate
+ * @bh: struct buffer_head
+ *
+ * Return true if the buffer is up-to-date and false,
+ * with the buffer locked, if not.
+ */
+int bh_uptodate_or_lock(struct buffer_head *bh)
+{
+ if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
+ lock_buffer(bh);
+ if (!buffer_uptodate(bh))
+ return 0;
+ unlock_buffer(bh);
+ }
+ return 1;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(bh_uptodate_or_lock);
+
+/**
+ * bh_submit_read: Submit a locked buffer for reading
+ * @bh: struct buffer_head
+ *
+ * Returns zero on success and -EIO on error.
+ */
+int bh_submit_read(struct buffer_head *bh)
+{
+ BUG_ON(!buffer_locked(bh));
+
+ if (buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
+ unlock_buffer(bh);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ get_bh(bh);
+ bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_read_sync;
+ submit_bh(READ, bh);
+ wait_on_buffer(bh);
+ if (buffer_uptodate(bh))
+ return 0;
+ return -EIO;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(bh_submit_read);
+
void __init buffer_init(void)
{
int nrpages;
diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
index da0d83f..e98801f 100644
--- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h
+++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
@@ -192,6 +192,8 @@ int sync_dirty_buffer(struct buffer_head *bh);
int submit_bh(int, struct buffer_head *);
void write_boundary_block(struct block_device *bdev,
sector_t bblock, unsigned blocksize);
+int bh_uptodate_or_lock(struct buffer_head *bh);
+int bh_submit_read(struct buffer_head *bh);
extern int buffer_heads_over_limit;
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