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authorJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2010-04-02 08:43:33 +0200
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2010-04-02 08:43:33 +0200
commited6b6dc7c142bfb5840d201a9b4a465c9e56ce33 (patch)
tree538a3ec7ba62f5e668be7f0bd681857c1bd73da2 /include/linux/writeback.h
parent2eaa9cfdf33b8d7fb7aff27792192e0019ae8fc6 (diff)
parenta506aedc51093544ff0f9610af6066d18cb6abbe (diff)
Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-2.6.35
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/writeback.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/writeback.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
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 */