2 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h
index 9539efd4f7e6..7a1af574dedf 100644
--- a/include/linux/pagemap.h
+++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ extern struct page * find_or_create_page(struct address_space *mapping,
                                 unsigned long index, gfp_t gfp_mask);
 unsigned find_get_pages(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t start,
                         unsigned int nr_pages, struct page **pages);
+unsigned find_get_pages_contig(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t start,
+                               unsigned int nr_pages, struct page **pages);
 unsigned find_get_pages_tag(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t *index,
                         int tag, unsigned int nr_pages, struct page **pages);
 
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 3ef20739e725..fd57442186cb 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -697,6 +697,38 @@ unsigned find_get_pages(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t start,
         return ret;
 }
 
+/**
+ * find_get_pages_contig - gang contiguous pagecache lookup
+ * @mapping:    The address_space to search
+ * @index:      The starting page index
+ * @nr_pages:   The maximum number of pages
+ * @pages:      Where the resulting pages are placed
+ *
+ * find_get_pages_contig() works exactly like find_get_pages(), except
+ * that the returned number of pages are guaranteed to be contiguous.
+ *
+ * find_get_pages_contig() returns the number of pages which were found.
+ */
+unsigned find_get_pages_contig(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t index,
+                               unsigned int nr_pages, struct page **pages)
+{
+        unsigned int i;
+        unsigned int ret;
+
+        read_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
+        ret = radix_tree_gang_lookup(&mapping->page_tree,
+                                (void **)pages, index, nr_pages);
+        for (i = 0; i < ret; i++) {
+                if (pages[i]->mapping == NULL || pages[i]->index != index)
+                        break;
+
+                page_cache_get(pages[i]);
+                index++;
+        }
+        read_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
+        return i;
+}
+
 /*
  * Like find_get_pages, except we only return pages which are tagged with
  * `tag'.   We update *index to index the next page for the traversal.