Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)

Merge misc patches from Andrew Morton:

 - Florian has vanished so I appear to have become fbdev maintainer
   again :(

 - Joel and Mark are distracted to welcome to the new OCFS2 maintainer

 - The backlight queue

 - Small core kernel changes

 - lib/ updates

 - The rtc queue

 - Various random bits

* akpm: (164 commits)
  rtc: rtc-davinci: use devm_*() functions
  rtc: rtc-max8997: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
  rtc: rtc-max8907: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
  rtc: rtc-da9052: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
  rtc: rtc-wm831x: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
  rtc: rtc-tps80031: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
  rtc: rtc-lp8788: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
  rtc: rtc-coh901331: use devm_clk_get()
  rtc: rtc-vt8500: use devm_*() functions
  rtc: rtc-tps6586x: use devm_request_threaded_irq()
  rtc: rtc-imxdi: use devm_clk_get()
  rtc: rtc-cmos: use dev_warn()/dev_dbg() instead of printk()/pr_debug()
  rtc: rtc-pcf8583: use dev_warn() instead of printk()
  rtc: rtc-sun4v: use pr_warn() instead of printk()
  rtc: rtc-vr41xx: use dev_info() instead of printk()
  rtc: rtc-rs5c313: use pr_err() instead of printk()
  rtc: rtc-at91rm9200: use dev_dbg()/dev_err() instead of printk()/pr_debug()
  rtc: rtc-rs5c372: use dev_dbg()/dev_warn() instead of printk()/pr_debug()
  rtc: rtc-ds2404: use dev_err() instead of printk()
  rtc: rtc-efi: use dev_err()/dev_warn()/pr_err() instead of printk()
  ...

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 66a0024becd9..7300c9d5e1d9 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2290,3 +2290,27 @@ int mapping_tagged(struct address_space *mapping, int tag)
 	return radix_tree_tagged(&mapping->page_tree, tag);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mapping_tagged);
+
+/**
+ * wait_for_stable_page() - wait for writeback to finish, if necessary.
+ * @page:	The page to wait on.
+ *
+ * This function determines if the given page is related to a backing device
+ * that requires page contents to be held stable during writeback.  If so, then
+ * it will wait for any pending writeback to complete.
+ */
+void wait_for_stable_page(struct page *page)
+{
+	struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
+	struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
+
+	if (!bdi_cap_stable_pages_required(bdi))
+		return;
+#ifdef CONFIG_NEED_BOUNCE_POOL
+	if (mapping->host->i_sb->s_flags & MS_SNAP_STABLE)
+		return;
+#endif /* CONFIG_NEED_BOUNCE_POOL */
+
+	wait_on_page_writeback(page);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wait_for_stable_page);