block: implement blkdev_readpages

Doing a proper block dev ->readpages() speeds up the crazy dump(8)
approach of using interleaved process IO.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index f45dbc18dd17..a85fe310fc6f 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -331,6 +331,12 @@ static int blkdev_readpage(struct file * file, struct page * page)
         return block_read_full_page(page, blkdev_get_block);
 }
 
+static int blkdev_readpages(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
+                        struct list_head *pages, unsigned nr_pages)
+{
+        return mpage_readpages(mapping, pages, nr_pages, blkdev_get_block);
+}
+
 static int blkdev_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
                         loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned flags,
                         struct page **pagep, void **fsdata)
@@ -1399,6 +1405,7 @@ static int blkdev_releasepage(struct page *page, gfp_t wait)
 
 static const struct address_space_operations def_blk_aops = {
         .readpage       = blkdev_readpage,
+        .readpages      = blkdev_readpages,
         .writepage      = blkdev_writepage,
         .sync_page      = block_sync_page,
         .write_begin    = blkdev_write_begin,