block: add sync_blockdev_range()

sync_blockdev_range() is to support syncing multiple sectors
with as few block device requests as possible, it is helpful
to make the block device to give full play to its performance.
Signed-off-by: Yuezhang Mo <Yuezhang.Mo@sony.com>
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andy Wu <Andy.Wu@sony.com>
Reviewed-by: Aoyama Wataru <wataru.aoyama@sony.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Sungjong Seo <sj1557.seo@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>

block/bdev.c

@@ -200,6 +200,13 @@ int sync_blockdev(struct block_device *bdev)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(sync_blockdev);
 
+int sync_blockdev_range(struct block_device *bdev, loff_t lstart, loff_t lend)
+{
+	return filemap_write_and_wait_range(bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping,
+			lstart, lend);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(sync_blockdev_range);
+
 /*
  * Write out and wait upon all dirty data associated with this
  * device.   Filesystem data as well as the underlying block

include/linux/blkdev.h

@@ -1547,6 +1547,7 @@ int truncate_bdev_range(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, loff_t lstart,
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
 void invalidate_bdev(struct block_device *bdev);
 int sync_blockdev(struct block_device *bdev);
+int sync_blockdev_range(struct block_device *bdev, loff_t lstart, loff_t lend);
 int sync_blockdev_nowait(struct block_device *bdev);
 void sync_bdevs(bool wait);
 void printk_all_partitions(void);