writeback: queue work on stack in writeback_inodes_sb

If we want to rely on s_umount in the caller we need to wait for completion
of the I/O submission before returning to the caller.  Refactor
bdi_sync_writeback into a bdi_queue_work_onstack helper and use it for this
case.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index dbf6f108e868..759666966c6d 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -178,30 +178,22 @@ static void bdi_alloc_queue_work(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
 }
 
 /**
- * bdi_sync_writeback - start and wait for writeback
- * @bdi: the backing device to write from
+ * bdi_queue_work_onstack - start and wait for writeback
  * @sb: write inodes from this super_block
  *
  * Description:
- *   This does WB_SYNC_ALL data integrity writeback and waits for the
- *   IO to complete. Callers must hold the sb s_umount semaphore for
+ *   This function initiates writeback and waits for the operation to
+ *   complete. Callers must hold the sb s_umount semaphore for
  *   reading, to avoid having the super disappear before we are done.
  */
-static void bdi_sync_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
-                               struct super_block *sb)
+static void bdi_queue_work_onstack(struct wb_writeback_args *args)
 {
-        struct wb_writeback_args args = {
-                .sb             = sb,
-                .sync_mode      = WB_SYNC_ALL,
-                .nr_pages       = LONG_MAX,
-                .range_cyclic   = 0,
-        };
         struct bdi_work work;
 
-        bdi_work_init(&work, &args);
+        bdi_work_init(&work, args);
         __set_bit(WS_ONSTACK, &work.state);
 
-        bdi_queue_work(bdi, &work);
+        bdi_queue_work(args->sb->s_bdi, &work);
         bdi_wait_on_work_done(&work);
 }
 
@@ -944,7 +936,7 @@ int bdi_writeback_task(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
 
 /*
  * Schedule writeback for all backing devices. This does WB_SYNC_NONE
- * writeback, for integrity writeback see bdi_sync_writeback().
+ * writeback, for integrity writeback see bdi_queue_work_onstack().
  */
 static void bdi_writeback_all(struct super_block *sb, long nr_pages)
 {
@@ -1183,12 +1175,15 @@ void writeback_inodes_sb(struct super_block *sb)
 {
         unsigned long nr_dirty = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY);
         unsigned long nr_unstable = global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS);
-        long nr_to_write;
+        struct wb_writeback_args args = {
+                .sb             = sb,
+                .sync_mode      = WB_SYNC_NONE,
+        };
 
-        nr_to_write = nr_dirty + nr_unstable +
+        args.nr_pages = nr_dirty + nr_unstable +
                         (inodes_stat.nr_inodes - inodes_stat.nr_unused);
 
-        bdi_start_writeback(sb->s_bdi, sb, nr_to_write);
+        bdi_queue_work_onstack(&args);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(writeback_inodes_sb);
 
@@ -1218,7 +1213,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle);
  */
 void sync_inodes_sb(struct super_block *sb)
 {
-        bdi_sync_writeback(sb->s_bdi, sb);
+        struct wb_writeback_args args = {
+                .sb             = sb,
+                .sync_mode      = WB_SYNC_ALL,
+                .nr_pages       = LONG_MAX,
+                .range_cyclic   = 0,
+        };
+
+        bdi_queue_work_onstack(&args);
         wait_sb_inodes(sb);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(sync_inodes_sb);