From 45cd0faae3715e305bc46e23b34c5ed4d185ceb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amir Goldstein Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:56:02 +0300 Subject: vfs: add the fadvise() file operation This is going to be used by overlayfs and possibly useful for other filesystems. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi --- include/linux/fs.h | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h') diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 33322702c910..6c0b4a1c22ff 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -1763,6 +1763,7 @@ struct file_operations { u64); int (*dedupe_file_range)(struct file *, loff_t, struct file *, loff_t, u64); + int (*fadvise)(struct file *, loff_t, loff_t, int); } __randomize_layout; struct inode_operations { @@ -3459,4 +3460,8 @@ static inline bool dir_relax_shared(struct inode *inode) extern bool path_noexec(const struct path *path); extern void inode_nohighmem(struct inode *inode); +/* mm/fadvise.c */ +extern int vfs_fadvise(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t len, + int advice); + #endif /* _LINUX_FS_H */ -- cgit