[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>

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 20f7333ba372..335c38bb86eb 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/blkpg.h>
 #include <linux/buffer_head.h>
+#include <linux/writeback.h>
 #include <linux/mpage.h>
 #include <linux/mount.h>
 #include <linux/uio.h>
diff --git a/fs/mpage.c b/fs/mpage.c
index 1e4598247d0b..692a3e578fc8 100644
--- a/fs/mpage.c
+++ b/fs/mpage.c
@@ -693,6 +693,8 @@ out:
  * the call was made get new I/O started against them.  If wbc->sync_mode is
  * WB_SYNC_ALL then we were called for data integrity and we must wait for
  * existing IO to complete.
+ *
+ * If you fix this you should check generic_writepages() also!
  */
 int
 mpage_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,