fs/buffer.c: support buffer cache allocations with gfp modifiers
commit 3b5e6454 upstream. A buffer cache is allocated from movable area because it is referred for a while and released soon. But some filesystems are taking buffer cache for a long time and it can disturb page migration. New APIs are introduced to allocate buffer cache with user specific flag. *_gfp APIs are for user want to set page allocation flag for page cache allocation. And *_unmovable APIs are for the user wants to allocate page cache from non-movable area. Signed-off-by: Gioh Kim <gioh.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> [bwh: Prerequisite for "bufferhead: Add _gfp version for sb_getblk()". Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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