Merge branch 'x86/asm' into x86/atomic

Merge reason:
	Conflict between LOCK_PREFIX_HERE and relative alternatives
	pointers

Resolved Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
	arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index c18c008f4bbf..36520ded3e06 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ struct writeback_control {
         enum writeback_sync_modes sync_mode;
         unsigned long *older_than_this; /* If !NULL, only write back inodes
                                            older than this */
+        unsigned long wb_start;         /* Time writeback_inodes_wb was
+                                           called. This is needed to avoid
+                                           extra jobs and livelock */
         long nr_to_write;               /* Write this many pages, and decrement
                                            this for each page written */
         long pages_skipped;             /* Pages which were not written */
@@ -70,6 +73,7 @@ struct writeback_control {
 struct bdi_writeback;
 int inode_wait(void *);
 void writeback_inodes_sb(struct super_block *);
+int writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle(struct super_block *);
 void sync_inodes_sb(struct super_block *);
 void writeback_inodes_wbc(struct writeback_control *wbc);
 long wb_do_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, int force_wait);