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+/*
+ * include/linux/writeback.h
+ */
+#ifndef WRITEBACK_H
+#define WRITEBACK_H
+
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/fs.h>
+
+struct backing_dev_info;
+
+extern spinlock_t inode_lock;
+extern struct list_head inode_in_use;
+extern struct list_head inode_unused;
+
+/*
+ * fs/fs-writeback.c
+ */
+enum writeback_sync_modes {
+ WB_SYNC_NONE, /* Don't wait on anything */
+ WB_SYNC_ALL, /* Wait on every mapping */
+};
+
+/*
+ * A control structure which tells the writeback code what to do. These are
+ * always on the stack, and hence need no locking. They are always initialised
+ * in a manner such that unspecified fields are set to zero.
+ */
+struct writeback_control {
+ struct backing_dev_info *bdi; /* If !NULL, only write back this
+ queue */
+ struct super_block *sb; /* if !NULL, only write inodes from
+ this super_block */
+ enum writeback_sync_modes sync_mode;
+ unsigned long *older_than_this; /* If !NULL, only write back inodes
+ older than this */
+ long nr_to_write; /* Write this many pages, and decrement
+ this for each page written */
+ long pages_skipped; /* Pages which were not written */
+
+ /*
+ * For a_ops->writepages(): is start or end are non-zero then this is
+ * a hint that the filesystem need only write out the pages inside that
+ * byterange. The byte at `end' is included in the writeout request.
+ */
+ loff_t range_start;
+ loff_t range_end;
+
+ unsigned nonblocking:1; /* Don't get stuck on request queues */
+ unsigned encountered_congestion:1; /* An output: a queue is full */
+ unsigned for_kupdate:1; /* A kupdate writeback */
+ unsigned for_background:1; /* A background writeback */
+ unsigned for_reclaim:1; /* Invoked from the page allocator */
+ unsigned range_cyclic:1; /* range_start is cyclic */
+ unsigned more_io:1; /* more io to be dispatched */
+ /*
+ * write_cache_pages() won't update wbc->nr_to_write and
+ * mapping->writeback_index if no_nrwrite_index_update
+ * is set. write_cache_pages() may write more than we
+ * requested and we want to make sure nr_to_write and
+ * writeback_index are updated in a consistent manner
+ * so we use a single control to update them
+ */
+ unsigned no_nrwrite_index_update:1;
+};
+
+/*
+ * fs/fs-writeback.c
+ */
+struct bdi_writeback;
+int inode_wait(void *);
+void writeback_inodes_sb(struct super_block *);
+int writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle(struct super_block *);
+void sync_inodes_sb(struct super_block *);
+void writeback_inodes_wbc(struct writeback_control *wbc);
+long wb_do_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, int force_wait);
+void wakeup_flusher_threads(long nr_pages);
+
+/* writeback.h requires fs.h; it, too, is not included from here. */
+static inline void wait_on_inode(struct inode *inode)
+{
+ might_sleep();
+ wait_on_bit(&inode->i_state, __I_NEW, inode_wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+}
+static inline void inode_sync_wait(struct inode *inode)
+{
+ might_sleep();
+ wait_on_bit(&inode->i_state, __I_SYNC, inode_wait,
+ TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+}
+
+
+/*
+ * mm/page-writeback.c
+ */
+void laptop_io_completion(void);
+void laptop_sync_completion(void);
+void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask);
+
+/* These are exported to sysctl. */
+extern int dirty_background_ratio;
+extern unsigned long dirty_background_bytes;
+extern int vm_dirty_ratio;
+extern unsigned long vm_dirty_bytes;
+extern unsigned int dirty_writeback_interval;
+extern unsigned int dirty_expire_interval;
+extern int vm_highmem_is_dirtyable;
+extern int block_dump;
+extern int laptop_mode;
+
+extern unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void);
+
+extern int dirty_background_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+ void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
+ loff_t *ppos);
+extern int dirty_background_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+ void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
+ loff_t *ppos);
+extern int dirty_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+ void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
+ loff_t *ppos);
+extern int dirty_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+ void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
+ loff_t *ppos);
+
+struct ctl_table;
+int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(struct ctl_table *, int,
+ void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
+
+void get_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty,
+ unsigned long *pbdi_dirty, struct backing_dev_info *bdi);
+
+void page_writeback_init(void);
+void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
+ unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied);
+
+static inline void
+balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping)
+{
+ balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(mapping, 1);
+}
+
+typedef int (*writepage_t)(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc,
+ void *data);
+
+int generic_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
+ struct writeback_control *wbc);
+int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
+ struct writeback_control *wbc, writepage_t writepage,
+ void *data);
+int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc);
+void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page, int page_mkwrite);
+void writeback_set_ratelimit(void);
+
+/* pdflush.c */
+extern int nr_pdflush_threads; /* Global so it can be exported to sysctl
+ read-only. */
+
+
+#endif /* WRITEBACK_H */