There are cases when we do not want to wait on the delay for
automatically updating the "real" framebuffer, this implements a
simple ->fsync() hook for explicitly flushing the deferred I/O
work. The ->page_mkwrite() handler will rearm the work queue
normally.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--
drivers/video/fb_defio.c | 12 ++++++++++++
drivers/video/fbmem.c | 3 +++
include/linux/fb.h | 2 ++
3 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fb_defio.c b/drivers/video/fb_defio.c
index c3e57cc..8a66dc8 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fb_defio.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fb_defio.c
@@ -52,6 +52,18 @@ static void fb_deferred_io_work(struct work_struct *work)
mutex_unlock(&fbdefio->lock);
}
+int fb_deferred_io_fsync(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry, int
datasync)
+{
+ struct fb_info *info = file->private_data;
+
+ /* Kill off the delayed work */
+ cancel_rearming_delayed_work(&info->deferred_work);
+
+ /* Run it immediately */
+ return schedule_delayed_work(&info->deferred_work, 0);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fb_deferred_io_fsync);
+
/* vm_ops->page_mkwrite handler */
int fb_deferred_io_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
struct page *page)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbmem.c b/drivers/video/fbmem.c
index 863126a..69bbbe2 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbmem.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbmem.c
@@ -1266,6 +1266,9 @@ static const struct file_operations fb_fops = {
#ifdef HAVE_ARCH_FB_UNMAPPED_AREA
.get_unmapped_area = get_fb_unmapped_area,
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_FB_DEFERRED_IO
+ .fsync = fb_deferred_io_fsync,
+#endif
};
struct class *fb_class;
diff --git a/include/linux/fb.h b/include/linux/fb.h
index af217dd..3f62652 100644
--- a/include/linux/fb.h
+++ b/include/linux/fb.h
@@ -933,6 +933,8 @@ extern void fb_deferred_io_init(struct fb_info *info);
extern void fb_deferred_io_cleanup(struct fb_info *info);
extern int fb_deferred_io_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
struct page *page);
+extern int fb_deferred_io_fsync(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry,
+ int datasync);
#else
#define fb_deferred_io_init(fb_info) do { } while (0)
#define fb_deferred_io_cleanup(fb_info) do { } while (0)
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