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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2010-10-12 17:27:20 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2010-10-12 17:27:28 +0200
commit37eca0d64a2dbeece25969ec0698e1ff72bdcf39 (patch)
tree54ba70f0428f586f4fe28d8b429b9f9e0799a17a /mm/page-writeback.c
parentlockup_detector: Make callback function static (diff)
parentMerge branch 'merge-powerpc' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 (diff)
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Merge branch 'linus' into core/locking
Reason: Pull in the semaphore related changes Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c30
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 7262aacea8a2..e3bccac1f025 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -836,7 +836,8 @@ void tag_pages_for_writeback(struct address_space *mapping,
spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
WARN_ON_ONCE(tagged > WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH);
cond_resched();
- } while (tagged >= WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH);
+ /* We check 'start' to handle wrapping when end == ~0UL */
+ } while (tagged >= WRITEBACK_TAG_BATCH && start);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(tag_pages_for_writeback);
@@ -984,22 +985,16 @@ continue_unlock:
}
}
- if (wbc->nr_to_write > 0) {
- if (--wbc->nr_to_write == 0 &&
- wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) {
- /*
- * We stop writing back only if we are
- * not doing integrity sync. In case of
- * integrity sync we have to keep going
- * because someone may be concurrently
- * dirtying pages, and we might have
- * synced a lot of newly appeared dirty
- * pages, but have not synced all of the
- * old dirty pages.
- */
- done = 1;
- break;
- }
+ /*
+ * We stop writing back only if we are not doing
+ * integrity sync. In case of integrity sync we have to
+ * keep going until we have written all the pages
+ * we tagged for writeback prior to entering this loop.
+ */
+ if (--wbc->nr_to_write <= 0 &&
+ wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) {
+ done = 1;
+ break;
}
}
pagevec_release(&pvec);
@@ -1131,6 +1126,7 @@ void account_page_dirtied(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
task_io_account_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
}
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_dirtied);
/*
* For address_spaces which do not use buffers. Just tag the page as dirty in