Merge branch 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux

* 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
  writeback: Add a 'reason' to wb_writeback_work
  writeback: send work item to queue_io, move_expired_inodes
  writeback: trace event balance_dirty_pages
  writeback: trace event bdi_dirty_ratelimit
  writeback: fix ppc compile warnings on do_div(long long, unsigned long)
  writeback: per-bdi background threshold
  writeback: dirty position control - bdi reserve area
  writeback: control dirty pause time
  writeback: limit max dirty pause time
  writeback: IO-less balance_dirty_pages()
  writeback: per task dirty rate limit
  writeback: stabilize bdi->dirty_ratelimit
  writeback: dirty rate control
  writeback: add bg_threshold parameter to __bdi_update_bandwidth()
  writeback: dirty position control
  writeback: account per-bdi accumulated dirtied pages

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index 2b8963ff0f3..a378c295851 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -39,6 +39,23 @@ enum writeback_sync_modes {
 };
 
 /*
+ * why some writeback work was initiated
+ */
+enum wb_reason {
+	WB_REASON_BACKGROUND,
+	WB_REASON_TRY_TO_FREE_PAGES,
+	WB_REASON_SYNC,
+	WB_REASON_PERIODIC,
+	WB_REASON_LAPTOP_TIMER,
+	WB_REASON_FREE_MORE_MEM,
+	WB_REASON_FS_FREE_SPACE,
+	WB_REASON_FORKER_THREAD,
+
+	WB_REASON_MAX,
+};
+extern const char *wb_reason_name[];
+
+/*
  * 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.
@@ -69,14 +86,17 @@ struct writeback_control {
  */	
 struct bdi_writeback;
 int inode_wait(void *);
-void writeback_inodes_sb(struct super_block *);
-void writeback_inodes_sb_nr(struct super_block *, unsigned long nr);
-int writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle(struct super_block *);
-int writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle(struct super_block *, unsigned long nr);
+void writeback_inodes_sb(struct super_block *, enum wb_reason reason);
+void writeback_inodes_sb_nr(struct super_block *, unsigned long nr,
+							enum wb_reason reason);
+int writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle(struct super_block *, enum wb_reason reason);
+int writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle(struct super_block *, unsigned long nr,
+							enum wb_reason reason);
 void sync_inodes_sb(struct super_block *);
-long writeback_inodes_wb(struct bdi_writeback *wb, long nr_pages);
+long writeback_inodes_wb(struct bdi_writeback *wb, long nr_pages,
+				enum wb_reason reason);
 long wb_do_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, int force_wait);
-void wakeup_flusher_threads(long nr_pages);
+void wakeup_flusher_threads(long nr_pages, enum wb_reason reason);
 
 /* writeback.h requires fs.h; it, too, is not included from here. */
 static inline void wait_on_inode(struct inode *inode)
@@ -143,6 +163,7 @@ unsigned long bdi_dirty_limit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
 
 void __bdi_update_bandwidth(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
 			    unsigned long thresh,
+			    unsigned long bg_thresh,
 			    unsigned long dirty,
 			    unsigned long bdi_thresh,
 			    unsigned long bdi_dirty,