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-rw-r--r--fs/fs-writeback.c28
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 6d49439ca31d..1599aa985fe2 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -480,32 +480,6 @@ writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct bdi_writeback *wb,
return ret;
}
-/*
- * For background writeback the caller does not have the sb pinned
- * before calling writeback. So make sure that we do pin it, so it doesn't
- * go away while we are writing inodes from it.
- */
-static bool pin_sb_for_writeback(struct super_block *sb)
-{
- spin_lock(&sb_lock);
- if (list_empty(&sb->s_instances)) {
- spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
- return false;
- }
-
- sb->s_count++;
- spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
-
- if (down_read_trylock(&sb->s_umount)) {
- if (sb->s_root)
- return true;
- up_read(&sb->s_umount);
- }
-
- put_super(sb);
- return false;
-}
-
static long writeback_chunk_size(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
struct wb_writeback_work *work)
{
@@ -643,7 +617,7 @@ static long __writeback_inodes_wb(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
struct inode *inode = wb_inode(wb->b_io.prev);
struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
- if (!pin_sb_for_writeback(sb)) {
+ if (!grab_super_passive(sb)) {
requeue_io(inode, wb);
continue;
}