kernel-aes67/include/linux/writeback.h
OGAWA Hirofumi 111ebb6e6f [PATCH] writeback: fix range handling
When a writeback_control's `start' and `end' fields are used to
indicate a one-byte-range starting at file offset zero, the required
values of .start=0,.end=0 mean that the ->writepages() implementation
has no way of telling that it is being asked to perform a range
request.  Because we're currently overloading (start == 0 && end == 0)
to mean "this is not a write-a-range request".

To make all this sane, the patch changes range of writeback_control.

So caller does: If it is calling ->writepages() to write pages, it
sets range (range_start/end or range_cyclic) always.

And if range_cyclic is true, ->writepages() thinks the range is
cyclic, otherwise it just uses range_start and range_end.

This patch does,

    - Add LLONG_MAX, LLONG_MIN, ULLONG_MAX to include/linux/kernel.h
      -1 is usually ok for range_end (type is long long). But, if someone did,

		range_end += val;		range_end is "val - 1"
		u64val = range_end >> bits;	u64val is "~(0ULL)"

      or something, they are wrong. So, this adds LLONG_MAX to avoid nasty
      things, and uses LLONG_MAX for range_end.

    - All callers of ->writepages() sets range_start/end or range_cyclic.

    - Fix updates of ->writeback_index. It seems already bit strange.
      If it starts at 0 and ended by check of nr_to_write, this last
      index may reduce chance to scan end of file.  So, this updates
      ->writeback_index only if range_cyclic is true or whole-file is
      scanned.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:42:49 -07:00

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/*
* include/linux/writeback.h.
*/
#ifndef WRITEBACK_H
#define WRITEBACK_H
struct backing_dev_info;
extern spinlock_t inode_lock;
extern struct list_head inode_in_use;
extern struct list_head inode_unused;
/*
* Yes, writeback.h requires sched.h
* No, sched.h is not included from here.
*/
static inline int task_is_pdflush(struct task_struct *task)
{
return task->flags & PF_FLUSHER;
}
#define current_is_pdflush() task_is_pdflush(current)
/*
* fs/fs-writeback.c
*/
enum writeback_sync_modes {
WB_SYNC_NONE, /* Don't wait on anything */
WB_SYNC_ALL, /* Wait on every mapping */
WB_SYNC_HOLD, /* Hold the inode on sb_dirty for sys_sync() */
};
/*
* A control structure which tells the writeback code what to do. These are
* always on the stack, and hence need no locking. They are always initialised
* in a manner such that unspecified fields are set to zero.
*/
struct writeback_control {
struct backing_dev_info *bdi; /* If !NULL, only write back this
queue */
enum writeback_sync_modes sync_mode;
unsigned long *older_than_this; /* If !NULL, only write back inodes
older than this */
long nr_to_write; /* Write this many pages, and decrement
this for each page written */
long pages_skipped; /* Pages which were not written */
/*
* For a_ops->writepages(): is start or end are non-zero then this is
* a hint that the filesystem need only write out the pages inside that
* byterange. The byte at `end' is included in the writeout request.
*/
loff_t range_start;
loff_t range_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 for_writepages:1; /* This is a writepages() call */
unsigned range_cyclic:1; /* range_start is cyclic */
};
/*
* fs/fs-writeback.c
*/
void writeback_inodes(struct writeback_control *wbc);
void wake_up_inode(struct inode *inode);
int inode_wait(void *);
void sync_inodes_sb(struct super_block *, int wait);
void sync_inodes(int wait);
/* writeback.h requires fs.h; it, too, is not included from here. */
static inline void wait_on_inode(struct inode *inode)
{
might_sleep();
wait_on_bit(&inode->i_state, __I_LOCK, inode_wait,
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
}
/*
* mm/page-writeback.c
*/
int wakeup_pdflush(long nr_pages);
void laptop_io_completion(void);
void laptop_sync_completion(void);
void throttle_vm_writeout(void);
/* These are exported to sysctl. */
extern int dirty_background_ratio;
extern int vm_dirty_ratio;
extern int dirty_writeback_interval;
extern int dirty_expire_interval;
extern int block_dump;
extern int laptop_mode;
struct ctl_table;
struct file;
int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(struct ctl_table *, int, struct file *,
void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
void page_writeback_init(void);
void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied);
static inline void
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping)
{
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(mapping, 1);
}
int pdflush_operation(void (*fn)(unsigned long), unsigned long arg0);
int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc);
int sync_page_range(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping,
loff_t pos, loff_t count);
int sync_page_range_nolock(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping,
loff_t pos, loff_t count);
/* pdflush.c */
extern int nr_pdflush_threads; /* Global so it can be exported to sysctl
read-only. */
#endif /* WRITEBACK_H */