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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 134 |
1 files changed, 134 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 9fdcc7903956..ecf27839c203 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ #include <linux/cpu.h> #include <linux/syscalls.h> #include <linux/buffer_head.h> +#include <linux/pagevec.h> /* * The maximum number of pages to writeout in a single bdflush/kupdate @@ -551,6 +552,139 @@ void __init page_writeback_init(void) register_cpu_notifier(&ratelimit_nb); } +/** + * generic_writepages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given + * address space and writepage() all of them. + * + * @mapping: address space structure to write + * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write + * + * This is a library function, which implements the writepages() + * address_space_operation. + * + * If a page is already under I/O, generic_writepages() skips it, even + * if it's dirty. This is desirable behaviour for memory-cleaning writeback, + * but it is INCORRECT for data-integrity system calls such as fsync(). fsync() + * and msync() need to guarantee that all the data which was dirty at the time + * the call was made get new I/O started against them. If wbc->sync_mode is + * WB_SYNC_ALL then we were called for data integrity and we must wait for + * existing IO to complete. + * + * Derived from mpage_writepages() - if you fix this you should check that + * also! + */ +int generic_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, + struct writeback_control *wbc) +{ + struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info; + int ret = 0; + int done = 0; + int (*writepage)(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc); + struct pagevec pvec; + int nr_pages; + pgoff_t index; + pgoff_t end; /* Inclusive */ + int scanned = 0; + int range_whole = 0; + + if (wbc->nonblocking && bdi_write_congested(bdi)) { + wbc->encountered_congestion = 1; + return 0; + } + + writepage = mapping->a_ops->writepage; + + /* deal with chardevs and other special file */ + if (!writepage) + return 0; + + pagevec_init(&pvec, 0); + if (wbc->range_cyclic) { + index = mapping->writeback_index; /* Start from prev offset */ + end = -1; + } else { + index = wbc->range_start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; + end = wbc->range_end >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; + if (wbc->range_start == 0 && wbc->range_end == LLONG_MAX) + range_whole = 1; + scanned = 1; + } +retry: + while (!done && (index <= end) && + (nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index, + PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY, + min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE-1) + 1))) { + unsigned i; + + scanned = 1; + for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) { + struct page *page = pvec.pages[i]; + + /* + * At this point we hold neither mapping->tree_lock nor + * lock on the page itself: the page may be truncated or + * invalidated (changing page->mapping to NULL), or even + * swizzled back from swapper_space to tmpfs file + * mapping + */ + lock_page(page); + + if (unlikely(page->mapping != mapping)) { + unlock_page(page); + continue; + } + + if (!wbc->range_cyclic && page->index > end) { + done = 1; + unlock_page(page); + continue; + } + + if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_NONE) + wait_on_page_writeback(page); + + if (PageWriteback(page) || + !clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) { + unlock_page(page); + continue; + } + + ret = (*writepage)(page, wbc); + if (ret) { + if (ret == -ENOSPC) + set_bit(AS_ENOSPC, &mapping->flags); + else + set_bit(AS_EIO, &mapping->flags); + } + + if (unlikely(ret == AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE)) + unlock_page(page); + if (ret || (--(wbc->nr_to_write) <= 0)) + done = 1; + if (wbc->nonblocking && bdi_write_congested(bdi)) { + wbc->encountered_congestion = 1; + done = 1; + } + } + pagevec_release(&pvec); + cond_resched(); + } + if (!scanned && !done) { + /* + * We hit the last page and there is more work to be done: wrap + * back to the start of the file + */ + scanned = 1; + index = 0; + goto retry; + } + if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && wbc->nr_to_write > 0)) + mapping->writeback_index = index; + return ret; +} + +EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_writepages); + int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc) { int ret; |