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authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2022-02-10 17:29:56 -0800
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2022-02-10 17:29:56 -0800
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@@ -462,6 +462,10 @@ operation table looks like the following::
struct iov_iter *iter,
netfs_io_terminated_t term_func,
void *term_func_priv);
+
+ int (*query_occupancy)(struct netfs_cache_resources *cres,
+ loff_t start, size_t len, size_t granularity,
+ loff_t *_data_start, size_t *_data_len);
};
With a termination handler function pointer::
@@ -536,6 +540,18 @@ The methods defined in the table are:
indicating whether the termination is definitely happening in the caller's
context.
+ * ``query_occupancy()``
+
+ [Required] Called to find out where the next piece of data is within a
+ particular region of the cache. The start and length of the region to be
+ queried are passed in, along with the granularity to which the answer needs
+ to be aligned. The function passes back the start and length of the data,
+ if any, available within that region. Note that there may be a hole at the
+ front.
+
+ It returns 0 if some data was found, -ENODATA if there was no usable data
+ within the region or -ENOBUFS if there is no caching on this file.
+
Note that these methods are passed a pointer to the cache resource structure,
not the read request structure as they could be used in other situations where
there isn't a read request structure as well, such as writing dirty data to the