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authorStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>2011-07-25 13:59:46 -0400
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2011-07-25 14:53:52 -0400
commit5f00bcb38ef9a980a33c6dbdc0044964b05f22dd (patch)
tree3175fb9375aecb50bde1be0bf4fa8aa8155131d6 /fs/fs-writeback.c
parent34006cee28f7344f9557a4be3816c7891b1bbab1 (diff)
parentb6844e8f64920cdee620157252169ba63afb0c89 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into devel and apply fixup from Stephen Rothwell:
vfs/nfs: fixup for nfs_open_context change Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fs-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/fs-writeback.c28
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 0f015a0468d..b8c507ca42f 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -461,32 +461,6 @@ writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
}
/*
- * For background writeback the caller does not have the sb pinned
- * before calling writeback. So make sure that we do pin it, so it doesn't
- * go away while we are writing inodes from it.
- */
-static bool pin_sb_for_writeback(struct super_block *sb)
-{
- spin_lock(&sb_lock);
- if (list_empty(&sb->s_instances)) {
- spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
- return false;
- }
-
- sb->s_count++;
- spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
-
- if (down_read_trylock(&sb->s_umount)) {
- if (sb->s_root)
- return true;
- up_read(&sb->s_umount);
- }
-
- put_super(sb);
- return false;
-}
-
-/*
* Write a portion of b_io inodes which belong to @sb.
*
* If @only_this_sb is true, then find and write all such
@@ -585,7 +559,7 @@ void writeback_inodes_wb(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
struct inode *inode = wb_inode(wb->b_io.prev);
struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
- if (!pin_sb_for_writeback(sb)) {
+ if (!grab_super_passive(sb)) {
requeue_io(inode);
continue;
}