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TAKE - simplify pagebuf_flush

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Subject: TAKE - simplify pagebuf_flush
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 15:15:15 -0600
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
This takes advantage of the buffer heads being on the inode dirty list
to do the flush operation. About 30 lines of code collapses down to 3
which are faster.

Date:  Thu Mar  1 13:13:39 PST 2001
Workarea:  jen.americas.sgi.com:/src/lord/xfs-linux.2.4

The following file(s) were checked into:
  bonnie.engr.sgi.com:/isms/slinx/2.4.x-xfs


Modid:  2.4.x-xfs:slinx:88692a
linux/kernel/ksyms.c - 1.80
        - change exports to reflect new pagebuf code

linux/include/linux/page_buf.h - 1.77
        - remove unused definitions

linux/fs/pagebuf/page_buf.c - 1.60
        - remove an unused pagebuf flag and cleanup the buffer head I/O path a 
little,
          more to come here.

linux/fs/pagebuf/page_buf_io.c - 1.59
        - Simplify pagebuf_flush to use base linux functions. remove unused
          pagebuf flag.



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