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Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/filemap.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index d4ff48e..c1b1708 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ static int sync_page(void *word) * dirty pages that lie within the byte offsets <start, end> * @mapping: address space structure to write * @start: offset in bytes where the range starts - * @end: offset in bytes where the range ends + * @end: offset in bytes where the range ends (inclusive) * @sync_mode: enable synchronous operation * * If sync_mode is WB_SYNC_ALL then this is a "data integrity" operation, as @@ -368,6 +368,12 @@ int filemap_write_and_wait(struct address_space *mapping) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_write_and_wait); +/* + * Write out and wait upon file offsets lstart->lend, inclusive. + * + * Note that `lend' is inclusive (describes the last byte to be written) so + * that this function can be used to write to the very end-of-file (end = -1). + */ int filemap_write_and_wait_range(struct address_space *mapping, loff_t lstart, loff_t lend) { |
