[PATCH] BLOCK: Move functions out of buffer code [try #6]

Move some functions out of the buffering code that aren't strictly buffering
specific.  This is a precursor to being able to disable the block layer.

 (*) Moved some stuff out of fs/buffer.c:

     (*) The file sync and general sync stuff moved to fs/sync.c.

     (*) The superblock sync stuff moved to fs/super.c.

     (*) do_invalidatepage() moved to mm/truncate.c.

     (*) try_to_release_page() moved to mm/filemap.c.

 (*) Moved some related declarations between header files:

     (*) declarations for do_invalidatepage() and try_to_release_page() moved
     	 to linux/mm.h.

     (*) __set_page_dirty_buffers() moved to linux/buffer_head.h.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
index a654928323d..cd3e34b816d 100644
--- a/mm/truncate.c
+++ b/mm/truncate.c
@@ -17,6 +17,30 @@
 				   do_invalidatepage */
 
 
+/**
+ * do_invalidatepage - invalidate part of all of a page
+ * @page: the page which is affected
+ * @offset: the index of the truncation point
+ *
+ * do_invalidatepage() is called when all or part of the page has become
+ * invalidated by a truncate operation.
+ *
+ * do_invalidatepage() does not have to release all buffers, but it must
+ * ensure that no dirty buffer is left outside @offset and that no I/O
+ * is underway against any of the blocks which are outside the truncation
+ * point.  Because the caller is about to free (and possibly reuse) those
+ * blocks on-disk.
+ */
+void do_invalidatepage(struct page *page, unsigned long offset)
+{
+	void (*invalidatepage)(struct page *, unsigned long);
+	invalidatepage = page->mapping->a_ops->invalidatepage;
+	if (!invalidatepage)
+		invalidatepage = block_invalidatepage;
+	if (invalidatepage)
+		(*invalidatepage)(page, offset);
+}
+
 static inline void truncate_partial_page(struct page *page, unsigned partial)
 {
 	memclear_highpage_flush(page, partial, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE-partial);