[PATCH] BLOCK: Dissociate generic_writepages() from mpage stuff [try #6]

Dissociate the generic_writepages() function from the mpage stuff, moving its
declaration to linux/mm.h and actually emitting a full implementation into
mm/page-writeback.c.

The implementation is a partial duplicate of mpage_writepages() with all BIO
references removed.

It is used by NFS to do writeback.

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

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index 9d4074ecd0c..4f4d98addb4 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -111,6 +111,8 @@ balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping)
 }
 
 int pdflush_operation(void (*fn)(unsigned long), unsigned long arg0);
+extern int generic_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
+                              struct writeback_control *wbc);
 int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc);
 int sync_page_range(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping,
                         loff_t pos, loff_t count);