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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/writeback.h | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 10 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h index 64a36ba43b2f..b096159086e8 100644 --- a/include/linux/writeback.h +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h @@ -53,10 +53,11 @@ struct writeback_control { loff_t start; loff_t 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_reclaim:1; /* Invoked from the page allocator */ + 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_reclaim:1; /* Invoked from the page allocator */ + unsigned for_writepages:1; /* This is a writepages() call */ }; /* diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 0166ea15c9ee..5240e426c1f7 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -550,11 +550,17 @@ void __init page_writeback_init(void) int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc) { + int ret; + if (wbc->nr_to_write <= 0) return 0; + wbc->for_writepages = 1; if (mapping->a_ops->writepages) - return mapping->a_ops->writepages(mapping, wbc); - return generic_writepages(mapping, wbc); + ret = mapping->a_ops->writepages(mapping, wbc); + else + ret = generic_writepages(mapping, wbc); + wbc->for_writepages = 0; + return ret; } /** |