Re: [PATCH] Turn do_sync_file_range() into do_sync_mapping_range()

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Mar 21 2007 - 02:36:06 EST


On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:46:26 -0700 Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.

I think we can remove do_sync_file_range() altogether?
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