[RFC 3/8] Flushing and zeroing higher order page cache pages

[Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>]

---
 include/linux/pagemap.h |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6.21-rc7/include/linux/pagemap.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.21-rc7.orig/include/linux/pagemap.h	2007-04-18 22:08:36.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc7/include/linux/pagemap.h	2007-04-18 22:09:13.000000000 -0700
@@ -210,6 +210,33 @@ static inline void wait_on_page_writebac
 
 extern void end_page_writeback(struct page *page);
 
+/* Support for clearing higher order pages */
+static inline void clear_mapping_page(struct address_space *a,
+						struct page *page)
+{
+	int nr_pages = 1 << a->order;
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++)
+		clear_highpage(page + i);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Support for flushing higher order pages.
+ *
+ * A bit stupid: On many platforms flushing the first page
+ * will flush any TLB starting there
+ */
+static inline void flush_mapping_page(struct address_space *a,
+						struct page *page)
+{
+	int nr_pages = 1 << a->order;
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++)
+		flush_dcache_page(page + i);
+}
+
 /*
  * Fault a userspace page into pagetables.  Return non-zero on a fault.
  *