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1 /*
2 * include/linux/writeback.h
3 */
4 #ifndef WRITEBACK_H
5 #define WRITEBACK_H
6
7 #include <linux/sched.h>
8 #include <linux/fs.h>
9
10 struct backing_dev_info;
11
12 /*
13 * fs/fs-writeback.c
14 */
15 enum writeback_sync_modes {
16 WB_SYNC_NONE, /* Don't wait on anything */
17 WB_SYNC_ALL, /* Wait on every mapping */
18 };
19
20 /*
21 * A control structure which tells the writeback code what to do. These are
22 * always on the stack, and hence need no locking. They are always initialised
23 * in a manner such that unspecified fields are set to zero.
24 */
25 struct writeback_control {
26 enum writeback_sync_modes sync_mode;
27 long nr_to_write; /* Write this many pages, and decrement
28 this for each page written */
29 long pages_skipped; /* Pages which were not written */
30
31 /*
32 * For a_ops->writepages(): is start or end are non-zero then this is
33 * a hint that the filesystem need only write out the pages inside that
34 * byterange. The byte at `end' is included in the writeout request.
35 */
36 loff_t range_start;
37 loff_t range_end;
38
39 unsigned for_kupdate:1; /* A kupdate writeback */
40 unsigned for_background:1; /* A background writeback */
41 unsigned tagged_writepages:1; /* tag-and-write to avoid livelock */
42 unsigned for_reclaim:1; /* Invoked from the page allocator */
43 unsigned range_cyclic:1; /* range_start is cyclic */
44 };
45
46 /*
47 * fs/fs-writeback.c
48 */
49 struct bdi_writeback;
50 int inode_wait(void *);
51 void writeback_inodes_sb(struct super_block *);
52 void writeback_inodes_sb_nr(struct super_block *, unsigned long nr);
53 int writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle(struct super_block *);
54 int writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle(struct super_block *, unsigned long nr);
55 void sync_inodes_sb(struct super_block *);
56 long writeback_inodes_wb(struct bdi_writeback *wb, long nr_pages);
57 long wb_do_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, int force_wait);
58 void wakeup_flusher_threads(long nr_pages);
59
60 /* writeback.h requires fs.h; it, too, is not included from here. */
61 static inline void wait_on_inode(struct inode *inode)
62 {
63 might_sleep();
64 wait_on_bit(&inode->i_state, __I_NEW, inode_wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
65 }
66 static inline void inode_sync_wait(struct inode *inode)
67 {
68 might_sleep();
69 wait_on_bit(&inode->i_state, __I_SYNC, inode_wait,
70 TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
71 }
72
73
74 /*
75 * mm/page-writeback.c
76 */
77 #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
78 void laptop_io_completion(struct backing_dev_info *info);
79 void laptop_sync_completion(void);
80 void laptop_mode_sync(struct work_struct *work);
81 void laptop_mode_timer_fn(unsigned long data);
82 #else
83 static inline void laptop_sync_completion(void) { }
84 #endif
85 void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask);
86
87 extern unsigned long global_dirty_limit;
88
89 /* These are exported to sysctl. */
90 extern int dirty_background_ratio;
91 extern unsigned long dirty_background_bytes;
92 extern int vm_dirty_ratio;
93 extern unsigned long vm_dirty_bytes;
94 extern unsigned int dirty_writeback_interval;
95 extern unsigned int dirty_expire_interval;
96 extern int vm_highmem_is_dirtyable;
97 extern int block_dump;
98 extern int laptop_mode;
99
100 extern unsigned long determine_dirtyable_memory(void);
101
102 extern int dirty_background_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
103 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
104 loff_t *ppos);
105 extern int dirty_background_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
106 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
107 loff_t *ppos);
108 extern int dirty_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
109 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
110 loff_t *ppos);
111 extern int dirty_bytes_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
112 void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
113 loff_t *ppos);
114
115 struct ctl_table;
116 int dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler(struct ctl_table *, int,
117 void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
118
119 void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty);
120 unsigned long bdi_dirty_limit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
121 unsigned long dirty);
122
123 void __bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
124 unsigned long thresh,
125 unsigned long dirty,
126 unsigned long bdi_thresh,
127 unsigned long bdi_dirty,
128 unsigned long start_time);
129
130 void page_writeback_init(void);
131 void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
132 unsigned long nr_pages_dirtied);
133
134 static inline void
135 balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(struct address_space *mapping)
136 {
137 balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(mapping, 1);
138 }
139
140 typedef int (*writepage_t)(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc,
141 void *data);
142
143 int generic_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
144 struct writeback_control *wbc);
145 void tag_pages_for_writeback(struct address_space *mapping,
146 pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end);
147 int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
148 struct writeback_control *wbc, writepage_t writepage,
149 void *data);
150 int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc);
151 void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page, int page_mkwrite);
152 void writeback_set_ratelimit(void);
153 void tag_pages_for_writeback(struct address_space *mapping,
154 pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end);
155
156 /* pdflush.c */
157 extern int nr_pdflush_threads; /* Global so it can be exported to sysctl
158 read-only. */
159
160
161 #endif /* WRITEBACK_H */