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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2010-05-07 11:29:25 +1000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2010-05-07 11:29:25 +1000
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diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
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--- 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 */