fb: fsync() method for deferred I/O flush.

There are cases when we do not want to wait on the delay for automatically
updating the "real" framebuffer, this implements a simple ->fsync() hook
for explicitly flushing the deferred I/O work.  The ->page_mkwrite()
handler will rearm the work queue normally.

(akpm: nuke unneeded ifdefs, forward-delcare struct dentry)

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fb.h b/include/linux/fb.h
index 8a8255b94b62..0de426026f4a 100644
--- a/include/linux/fb.h
+++ b/include/linux/fb.h
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 #include <asm/types.h>
 #include <linux/i2c.h>
 
+struct dentry;
+
 /* Definitions of frame buffers                                         */
 
 #define FB_MAJOR                29
@@ -927,11 +929,11 @@ static inline void __fb_pad_aligned_buffer(u8 *dst, u32 d_pitch,
         }
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_FB_DEFERRED_IO
 /* drivers/video/fb_defio.c */
 extern void fb_deferred_io_init(struct fb_info *info);
 extern void fb_deferred_io_cleanup(struct fb_info *info);
-#endif
+extern int fb_deferred_io_fsync(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry,
+                                int datasync);
 
 /* drivers/video/fbsysfs.c */
 extern struct fb_info *framebuffer_alloc(size_t size, struct device *dev);