vfs: add the fadvise() file operation

This is going to be used by overlayfs and possibly useful
for other filesystems.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 33322702c910..6c0b4a1c22ff 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1763,6 +1763,7 @@ struct file_operations {
                         u64);
         int (*dedupe_file_range)(struct file *, loff_t, struct file *, loff_t,
                         u64);
+        int (*fadvise)(struct file *, loff_t, loff_t, int);
 } __randomize_layout;
 
 struct inode_operations {
@@ -3459,4 +3460,8 @@ static inline bool dir_relax_shared(struct inode *inode)
 extern bool path_noexec(const struct path *path);
 extern void inode_nohighmem(struct inode *inode);
 
+/* mm/fadvise.c */
+extern int vfs_fadvise(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t len,
+                       int advice);
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_FS_H */