xfs: introduced uncached buffer read primitve

To avoid the need to use cached buffers for single-shot or buffers
cached at the filesystem level, introduce a new buffer read
primitive that bypasses the cache an reads directly from disk.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h
index fb30447091d8..57eedc750ee6 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h
@@ -218,6 +218,9 @@ extern int xfs_buf_associate_memory(xfs_buf_t *, void *, size_t);
 extern void xfs_buf_hold(xfs_buf_t *);
 extern void xfs_buf_readahead(xfs_buftarg_t *, xfs_off_t, size_t,
                                 xfs_buf_flags_t);
+struct xfs_buf *xfs_buf_read_uncached(struct xfs_mount *mp,
+                                struct xfs_buftarg *target,
+                                xfs_daddr_t daddr, size_t length, int flags);
 
 /* Releasing Buffers */
 extern void xfs_buf_free(xfs_buf_t *);