Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:54:10 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Request for export of truncate_complete_page |
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Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru> wrote: > > Hello! > > Can I ask for truncate_complete_page() to be exported? > For Lustre filesystem it is necessary to poke out pages in the middle of > a file, but truncate_inode_pages() is not very suitable, because we > poke those pages one at a time when locks on those pages are cancelled, but > we cannot kill entire set of pages as a group, because there might be some > other lock that covers a subset of those pages, so we still need to iterate > through all of them, and while we are at it, it is easier to kill pages > as we check them one by one. >
Isn't truncate_inode_pages_range() suitable?
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(truncate_complete_page);
_GPL would be nicer. Plus a comment to keep people from "cleaning it up".
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