[PATCH] readahead commentary
Add a few comments surrounding the generic readahead API.
Also convert some ulongs into pgoff_t: the identifier for PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
offsets into pagecache.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 5c1fb0a..7b115fe 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -932,13 +932,13 @@
* turning readahead off */
int do_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
- unsigned long offset, unsigned long nr_to_read);
+ pgoff_t offset, unsigned long nr_to_read);
int force_page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping, struct file *filp,
- unsigned long offset, unsigned long nr_to_read);
-unsigned long page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
+ pgoff_t offset, unsigned long nr_to_read);
+unsigned long page_cache_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
struct file_ra_state *ra,
struct file *filp,
- unsigned long offset,
+ pgoff_t offset,
unsigned long size);
void handle_ra_miss(struct address_space *mapping,
struct file_ra_state *ra, pgoff_t offset);