Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index eb34d204d4ee..9e35b636a393 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2833,6 +2833,22 @@ void wait_on_page_writeback(struct page *page)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wait_on_page_writeback);
 
+/*
+ * Wait for a page to complete writeback.  Returns -EINTR if we get a
+ * fatal signal while waiting.
+ */
+int wait_on_page_writeback_killable(struct page *page)
+{
+	while (PageWriteback(page)) {
+		trace_wait_on_page_writeback(page, page_mapping(page));
+		if (wait_on_page_bit_killable(page, PG_writeback))
+			return -EINTR;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wait_on_page_writeback_killable);
+
 /**
  * wait_for_stable_page() - wait for writeback to finish, if necessary.
  * @page:	The page to wait on.