block: add sync_blockdev_range()
sync_blockdev_range() is to support syncing multiple sectors
with as few block device requests as possible, it is helpful
to make the block device to give full play to its performance.
Signed-off-by: Yuezhang Mo <Yuezhang.Mo@sony.com>
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andy Wu <Andy.Wu@sony.com>
Reviewed-by: Aoyama Wataru <wataru.aoyama@sony.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Sungjong Seo <sj1557.seo@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
diff --git a/block/bdev.c b/block/bdev.c
index 13de871..8b549b0 100644
--- a/block/bdev.c
+++ b/block/bdev.c
@@ -200,6 +200,13 @@ int sync_blockdev(struct block_device *bdev)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(sync_blockdev);
+int sync_blockdev_range(struct block_device *bdev, loff_t lstart, loff_t lend)
+{
+ return filemap_write_and_wait_range(bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping,
+ lstart, lend);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(sync_blockdev_range);
+
/*
* Write out and wait upon all dirty data associated with this
* device. Filesystem data as well as the underlying block
