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>
This commit is contained in:
Jens Axboe
2009-09-02 12:34:32 +02:00
parent 0d03d59d9b
commit d8a8559cd7
7 changed files with 58 additions and 68 deletions

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@@ -65,26 +65,14 @@
static int shrink_liability(struct ubifs_info *c, int nr_to_write)
{
int nr_written;
struct writeback_control wbc = {
.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
.range_end = LLONG_MAX,
.nr_to_write = nr_to_write,
};
generic_sync_sb_inodes(c->vfs_sb, &wbc);
nr_written = nr_to_write - wbc.nr_to_write;
nr_written = writeback_inodes_sb(c->vfs_sb);
if (!nr_written) {
/*
* Re-try again but wait on pages/inodes which are being
* written-back concurrently (e.g., by pdflush).
*/
memset(&wbc, 0, sizeof(struct writeback_control));
wbc.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL;
wbc.range_end = LLONG_MAX;
wbc.nr_to_write = nr_to_write;
generic_sync_sb_inodes(c->vfs_sb, &wbc);
nr_written = nr_to_write - wbc.nr_to_write;
nr_written = sync_inodes_sb(c->vfs_sb);
}
dbg_budg("%d pages were written back", nr_written);