Avoid losing context by propagating the various reason why we initiate writeback. If we are doing more important reclaim or synchronous writeback, the lower levels should know about it. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx> --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index fee81e8768c9..4300ee7b1139 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ struct wb_writeback_work { unsigned int range_cyclic:1; unsigned int for_background:1; unsigned int for_sync:1; /* sync(2) WB_SYNC_ALL writeback */ + unsigned int for_reclaim:1; /* for mem reclaim */ unsigned int auto_free:1; /* free on completion */ enum wb_reason reason; /* why was writeback initiated? */ @@ -944,6 +945,17 @@ void wb_start_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, long nr_pages, work->reason = reason; work->auto_free = 1; + switch (reason) { + case WB_REASON_TRY_TO_FREE_PAGES: + case WB_REASON_FREE_MORE_MEM: + work->for_reclaim = 1; + case WB_REASON_SYNC: + work->for_sync = 1; + break; + default: + break; + } + wb_queue_work(wb, work); } @@ -1446,6 +1458,7 @@ static long writeback_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb, .for_kupdate = work->for_kupdate, .for_background = work->for_background, .for_sync = work->for_sync, + .for_reclaim = work->for_reclaim, .range_cyclic = work->range_cyclic, .range_start = 0, .range_end = LLONG_MAX, -- 2.8.0.rc4.6.g7e4ba36 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html