1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index ccea3b665c12..65b2e50efcd0 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -307,6 +307,26 @@ int wait_on_page_writeback_range(struct address_space *mapping,
 }
 
 /**
+ * filemap_fdatawait_range - wait for all under-writeback pages to complete in a given range
+ * @mapping: address space structure to wait for
+ * @start:      offset in bytes where the range starts
+ * @end:        offset in bytes where the range ends (inclusive)
+ *
+ * Walk the list of under-writeback pages of the given address space
+ * in the given range and wait for all of them.
+ *
+ * This is just a simple wrapper so that callers don't have to convert offsets
+ * to page indexes themselves
+ */
+int filemap_fdatawait_range(struct address_space *mapping, loff_t start,
+                            loff_t end)
+{
+        return wait_on_page_writeback_range(mapping, start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT,
+                                            end >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_fdatawait_range);
+
+/**
  * sync_page_range - write and wait on all pages in the passed range
  * @inode:      target inode
  * @mapping:    target address_space