+EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_cache_pages);
+
+/*
+ * Function used by generic_writepages to call the real writepage
+ * function and set the mapping flags on error
+ */
+static int __writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc,
+ void *data)
+{
+ struct address_space *mapping = data;
+ int ret = mapping->a_ops->writepage(page, wbc);
+ mapping_set_error(mapping, ret);
+ return ret;
+}
+
+/**
+ * generic_writepages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and writepage() all of them.
+ * @mapping: address space structure to write
+ * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
+ *
+ * This is a library function, which implements the writepages()
+ * address_space_operation.
+ */
+int generic_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
+ struct writeback_control *wbc)
+{
+ /* deal with chardevs and other special file */
+ if (!mapping->a_ops->writepage)
+ return 0;
+
+ return write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, __writepage, mapping);
+}