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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-04-13 00:28:45 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-04-13 00:28:45 -0700
commit9343af084c7e8911897b0883042ee690cee3aaef (patch)
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Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/
Conflicts: lib/Kconfig.debug
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diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index 76e8903cd204..36520ded3e06 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ struct writeback_control {
enum writeback_sync_modes sync_mode;
unsigned long *older_than_this; /* If !NULL, only write back inodes
older than this */
+ unsigned long wb_start; /* Time writeback_inodes_wb was
+ called. This is needed to avoid
+ extra jobs and livelock */
long nr_to_write; /* Write this many pages, and decrement
this for each page written */
long pages_skipped; /* Pages which were not written */