+ int shift;
+
+ mod_timer(&wb_timer, jiffies + dirty_writeback_interval);
+ writeback_set_ratelimit();
+ register_cpu_notifier(&ratelimit_nb);
+
+ shift = calc_period_shift();
+ prop_descriptor_init(&vm_completions, shift);
+ prop_descriptor_init(&vm_dirties, shift);
+}
+
+/**
+ * write_cache_pages - walk the list of dirty pages of the given address space and write all of them.
+ * @mapping: address space structure to write
+ * @wbc: subtract the number of written pages from *@wbc->nr_to_write
+ * @writepage: function called for each page
+ * @data: data passed to writepage function
+ *
+ * If a page is already under I/O, write_cache_pages() skips it, even
+ * if it's dirty. This is desirable behaviour for memory-cleaning writeback,
+ * but it is INCORRECT for data-integrity system calls such as fsync(). fsync()
+ * and msync() need to guarantee that all the data which was dirty at the time
+ * the call was made get new I/O started against them. If wbc->sync_mode is
+ * WB_SYNC_ALL then we were called for data integrity and we must wait for
+ * existing IO to complete.
+ */
+int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
+ struct writeback_control *wbc, writepage_t writepage,
+ void *data)
+{
+ struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
+ int ret = 0;
+ int done = 0;
+ struct pagevec pvec;
+ int nr_pages;
+ pgoff_t index;
+ pgoff_t end; /* Inclusive */
+ int scanned = 0;
+ int range_whole = 0;
+
+ if (wbc->nonblocking && bdi_write_congested(bdi)) {
+ wbc->encountered_congestion = 1;
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ pagevec_init(&pvec, 0);
+ if (wbc->range_cyclic) {
+ index = mapping->writeback_index; /* Start from prev offset */
+ end = -1;
+ } else {
+ index = wbc->range_start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
+ end = wbc->range_end >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
+ if (wbc->range_start == 0 && wbc->range_end == LLONG_MAX)
+ range_whole = 1;
+ scanned = 1;
+ }
+retry:
+ while (!done && (index <= end) &&
+ (nr_pages = pagevec_lookup_tag(&pvec, mapping, &index,
+ PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY,
+ min(end - index, (pgoff_t)PAGEVEC_SIZE-1) + 1))) {
+ unsigned i;
+
+ scanned = 1;
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
+ struct page *page = pvec.pages[i];
+
+ /*
+ * At this point we hold neither mapping->tree_lock nor
+ * lock on the page itself: the page may be truncated or
+ * invalidated (changing page->mapping to NULL), or even
+ * swizzled back from swapper_space to tmpfs file
+ * mapping
+ */
+ lock_page(page);
+
+ if (unlikely(page->mapping != mapping)) {
+ unlock_page(page);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ if (!wbc->range_cyclic && page->index > end) {
+ done = 1;
+ unlock_page(page);
+ continue;
+ }