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authorJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2017-09-20 17:58:25 +0300
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2017-10-03 17:38:17 +0300
commit9ba4b2dfafaa711b41cc2102b0e9a529f3981218 (patch)
tree71028702d3d6affdc6af86db8528608de326ae32 /fs/fs-writeback.c
parentbc48f001de12225b6430a243504aa60b5ae8a91a (diff)
downloadlinux-9ba4b2dfafaa711b41cc2102b0e9a529f3981218.tar.xz
fs: kill 'nr_pages' argument from wakeup_flusher_threads()
Everybody is passing in 0 now, let's get rid of the argument. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fs-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/fs-writeback.c9
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 245c430a2e41..bb6148dc6d24 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -1947,12 +1947,12 @@ void wb_workfn(struct work_struct *work)
}
/*
- * Start writeback of `nr_pages' pages. If `nr_pages' is zero, write back
- * the whole world.
+ * Wakeup the flusher threads to start writeback of all currently dirty pages
*/
-void wakeup_flusher_threads(long nr_pages, enum wb_reason reason)
+void wakeup_flusher_threads(enum wb_reason reason)
{
struct backing_dev_info *bdi;
+ long nr_pages;
/*
* If we are expecting writeback progress we must submit plugged IO.
@@ -1960,8 +1960,7 @@ void wakeup_flusher_threads(long nr_pages, enum wb_reason reason)
if (blk_needs_flush_plug(current))
blk_schedule_flush_plug(current);
- if (!nr_pages)
- nr_pages = get_nr_dirty_pages();
+ nr_pages = get_nr_dirty_pages();
rcu_read_lock();
list_for_each_entry_rcu(bdi, &bdi_list, bdi_list) {