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authorPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>2010-05-20 11:57:38 +0900
committerPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>2010-05-20 11:57:38 +0900
commitffee72d4681c8777918268a96aef42bdeb6c367b (patch)
tree4baf91483886d561c198ed0524ab54b783273e86 /include/linux/writeback.h
parentfb54d268329846aa13b2bc44a64d90e9b7131192 (diff)
parentf72caf7e496465182eeda842ac66a5e75404ddf1 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/writeback.h')
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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 */