mm/filemap: add filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick() helper

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Works like filemap_fdatawrite_range(), except it's a non-integrity data
writeback and hence only starts writeback on the specified range.  Will
help facilitate generically starting uncached writeback from
generic_write_sync(), as header dependencies preclude doing this inline
from fs.h.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241220154831.1086649-11-axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Jens Axboe 2024-12-20 08:47:48 -07:00 • committed by Andrew Morton

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