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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2008-10-21 15:52:04 +1100
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2008-10-21 15:52:04 +1100
commita02efb906d12c9d4eb2ab7c59049ba9545e5412d (patch)
treebf1f6467978ec63a22f42299ecac2ee7f7e73336 /include/linux/writeback.h
parent84dfcb4b318463cd4883b6a19937824f49aee564 (diff)
parent2515ddc6db8eb49a79f0fe5e67ff09ac7c81eab4 (diff)
Merge commit 'origin' into master
Manual merge of: arch/powerpc/Kconfig arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/writeback.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/writeback.h10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index 12b15c561a1f..e585657e9831 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -63,7 +63,15 @@ struct writeback_control {
unsigned for_writepages:1; /* This is a writepages() call */
unsigned range_cyclic:1; /* range_start is cyclic */
unsigned more_io:1; /* more io to be dispatched */
- unsigned range_cont:1;
+ /*
+ * 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;
};
/*