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-rw-r--r--fs/fs-writeback.c1
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/write.c2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/writeback.h1
3 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 0306c8e7d6b..0793961f769 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -738,6 +738,7 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
.sync_mode = args->sync_mode,
.older_than_this = NULL,
.for_kupdate = args->for_kupdate,
+ .for_background = args->for_background,
.range_cyclic = args->range_cyclic,
};
unsigned long oldest_jif;
diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c
index 53eb26c16b5..c84b5cc1a94 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ static int wb_priority(struct writeback_control *wbc)
{
if (wbc->for_reclaim)
return FLUSH_HIGHPRI | FLUSH_STABLE;
- if (wbc->for_kupdate)
+ if (wbc->for_kupdate || wbc->for_background)
return FLUSH_LOWPRI;
return 0;
}
diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index 66ebddcff66..705f01fe413 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ struct writeback_control {
unsigned nonblocking:1; /* Don't get stuck on request queues */
unsigned encountered_congestion:1; /* An output: a queue is full */
unsigned for_kupdate:1; /* A kupdate writeback */
+ unsigned for_background:1; /* A background writeback */
unsigned for_reclaim:1; /* Invoked from the page allocator */
unsigned range_cyclic:1; /* range_start is cyclic */
unsigned more_io:1; /* more io to be dispatched */