VFS: export sync_sb_inodes
This patch exports the 'sync_sb_inodes()' which is needed for
UBIFS because it has to force write-back from time to time.
Namely, the UBIFS budgeting subsystem forces write-back when
its pessimistic callculations show that there is no free
space on the media.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 16519fe..25adfc3 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -439,8 +439,8 @@
* on the writer throttling path, and we get decent balancing between many
* throttled threads: we don't want them all piling up on inode_sync_wait.
*/
-static void
-sync_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb, struct writeback_control *wbc)
+void generic_sync_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb,
+ struct writeback_control *wbc)
{
const unsigned long start = jiffies; /* livelock avoidance */
@@ -526,6 +526,13 @@
spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
return; /* Leave any unwritten inodes on s_io */
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(generic_sync_sb_inodes);
+
+static void sync_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb,
+ struct writeback_control *wbc)
+{
+ generic_sync_sb_inodes(sb, wbc);
+}
/*
* Start writeback of dirty pagecache data against all unlocked inodes.
