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buffer: add BH_Prio and BH_Meta flags

Add buffer_head flags so that buffer cache writebacks can be marked
with the the appropriate request flags, so that metadata blocks can be
marked appropriately in blktrace.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

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fs/buffer.c
··· 2988 2988 /* Take care of bh's that straddle the end of the device */ 2989 2989 guard_bh_eod(rw, bio, bh); 2990 2990 2991 + if (buffer_meta(bh)) 2992 + rw |= REQ_META; 2993 + if (buffer_prio(bh)) 2994 + rw |= REQ_PRIO; 2995 + 2991 2996 bio_get(bio); 2992 2997 submit_bio(rw, bio); 2993 2998
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include/linux/buffer_head.h
··· 34 34 BH_Write_EIO, /* I/O error on write */ 35 35 BH_Unwritten, /* Buffer is allocated on disk but not written */ 36 36 BH_Quiet, /* Buffer Error Prinks to be quiet */ 37 + BH_Meta, /* Buffer contains metadata */ 38 + BH_Prio, /* Buffer should be submitted with REQ_PRIO */ 37 39 38 40 BH_PrivateStart,/* not a state bit, but the first bit available 39 41 * for private allocation by other entities ··· 126 124 BUFFER_FNS(Boundary, boundary) 127 125 BUFFER_FNS(Write_EIO, write_io_error) 128 126 BUFFER_FNS(Unwritten, unwritten) 127 + BUFFER_FNS(Meta, meta) 128 + BUFFER_FNS(Prio, prio) 129 129 130 130 #define bh_offset(bh) ((unsigned long)(bh)->b_data & ~PAGE_MASK) 131 131