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authorHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2010-05-03 07:28:58 +0400
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2010-05-03 07:28:58 +0400
commitdf2071bd081408318d659cd14a9cf6ff23d874c9 (patch)
treeb31291b5fd4b9f84c629833afbfaa8d431857475 /include/linux/writeback.h
parent97e3d94aac1c3e95bd04d1b186479a4df3663ab8 (diff)
parentbe1066bbcd443a65df312fdecea7e4959adedb45 (diff)
downloadlinux-df2071bd081408318d659cd14a9cf6ff23d874c9.tar.xz
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
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diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index 76e8903cd204..36520ded3e06 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ struct writeback_control {
enum writeback_sync_modes sync_mode;
unsigned long *older_than_this; /* If !NULL, only write back inodes
older than this */
+ unsigned long wb_start; /* Time writeback_inodes_wb was
+ called. This is needed to avoid
+ extra jobs and livelock */
long nr_to_write; /* Write this many pages, and decrement
this for each page written */
long pages_skipped; /* Pages which were not written */