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Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/shmem.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index f1714758ea9..fcedf5464eb 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -3035,3 +3035,26 @@ int shmem_zero_setup(struct vm_area_struct *vma) vma->vm_flags |= VM_CAN_NONLINEAR; return 0; } + +/** + * shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp - read into page cache, using specified page allocation flags. + * @mapping: the page's address_space + * @index: the page index + * @gfp: the page allocator flags to use if allocating + * + * This behaves as a tmpfs "read_cache_page_gfp(mapping, index, gfp)", + * with any new page allocations done using the specified allocation flags. + * But read_cache_page_gfp() uses the ->readpage() method: which does not + * suit tmpfs, since it may have pages in swapcache, and needs to find those + * for itself; although drivers/gpu/drm i915 and ttm rely upon this support. + * + * Provide a stub for those callers to start using now, then later + * flesh it out to call shmem_getpage() with additional gfp mask, when + * shmem_file_splice_read() is added and shmem_readpage() is removed. + */ +struct page *shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp(struct address_space *mapping, + pgoff_t index, gfp_t gfp) +{ + return read_cache_page_gfp(mapping, index, gfp); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp); |