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authorJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2009-09-02 12:34:32 +0200
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2009-09-11 09:20:25 +0200
commitd8a8559cd7a9ccac98d5f6f13297a2ff68a43627 (patch)
tree165e02117205e9790c21b2facc130b23addf3775 /fs/fs-writeback.c
parent0d03d59d9b31cd1e33b7e46a80b6fef66244b1f2 (diff)
writeback: get rid of generic_sync_sb_inodes() export
This adds two new exported functions: - writeback_inodes_sb(), which only attempts to writeback dirty inodes on this super_block, for WB_SYNC_NONE writeout. - sync_inodes_sb(), which writes out all dirty inodes on this super_block and also waits for the IO to complete. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fs-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/fs-writeback.c70
1 files changed, 42 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index c54226be529..271e5f44e87 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -458,8 +458,8 @@ writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
* on the writer throttling path, and we get decent balancing between many
* throttled threads: we don't want them all piling up on inode_sync_wait.
*/
-void generic_sync_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb,
- struct writeback_control *wbc)
+static void generic_sync_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb,
+ struct writeback_control *wbc)
{
const unsigned long start = jiffies; /* livelock avoidance */
int sync = wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL;
@@ -593,13 +593,6 @@ void generic_sync_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb,
return; /* Leave any unwritten inodes on s_io */
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(generic_sync_sb_inodes);
-
-static void sync_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb,
- struct writeback_control *wbc)
-{
- generic_sync_sb_inodes(sb, wbc);
-}
/*
* Start writeback of dirty pagecache data against all unlocked inodes.
@@ -640,7 +633,7 @@ restart:
*/
if (down_read_trylock(&sb->s_umount)) {
if (sb->s_root)
- sync_sb_inodes(sb, wbc);
+ generic_sync_sb_inodes(sb, wbc);
up_read(&sb->s_umount);
}
spin_lock(&sb_lock);
@@ -653,35 +646,56 @@ restart:
spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
}
-/*
- * writeback and wait upon the filesystem's dirty inodes. The caller will
- * do this in two passes - one to write, and one to wait.
- *
- * A finite limit is set on the number of pages which will be written.
- * To prevent infinite livelock of sys_sync().
+/**
+ * writeback_inodes_sb - writeback dirty inodes from given super_block
+ * @sb: the superblock
*
- * We add in the number of potentially dirty inodes, because each inode write
- * can dirty pagecache in the underlying blockdev.
+ * Start writeback on some inodes on this super_block. No guarantees are made
+ * on how many (if any) will be written, and this function does not wait
+ * for IO completion of submitted IO. The number of pages submitted is
+ * returned.
*/
-void sync_inodes_sb(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
+long writeback_inodes_sb(struct super_block *sb)
{
struct writeback_control wbc = {
- .sync_mode = wait ? WB_SYNC_ALL : WB_SYNC_NONE,
+ .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
.range_start = 0,
.range_end = LLONG_MAX,
};
+ unsigned long nr_dirty = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY);
+ unsigned long nr_unstable = global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
+ long nr_to_write;
- if (!wait) {
- unsigned long nr_dirty = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY);
- unsigned long nr_unstable = global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
-
- wbc.nr_to_write = nr_dirty + nr_unstable +
+ nr_to_write = nr_dirty + nr_unstable +
(inodes_stat.nr_inodes - inodes_stat.nr_unused);
- } else
- wbc.nr_to_write = LONG_MAX; /* doesn't actually matter */
- sync_sb_inodes(sb, &wbc);
+ wbc.nr_to_write = nr_to_write;
+ generic_sync_sb_inodes(sb, &wbc);
+ return nr_to_write - wbc.nr_to_write;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(writeback_inodes_sb);
+
+/**
+ * sync_inodes_sb - sync sb inode pages
+ * @sb: the superblock
+ *
+ * This function writes and waits on any dirty inode belonging to this
+ * super_block. The number of pages synced is returned.
+ */
+long sync_inodes_sb(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+ struct writeback_control wbc = {
+ .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
+ .range_start = 0,
+ .range_end = LLONG_MAX,
+ };
+ long nr_to_write = LONG_MAX; /* doesn't actually matter */
+
+ wbc.nr_to_write = nr_to_write;
+ generic_sync_sb_inodes(sb, &wbc);
+ return nr_to_write - wbc.nr_to_write;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(sync_inodes_sb);
/**
* write_inode_now - write an inode to disk