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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-07-31 06:25:09 -1000 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-07-31 06:25:09 -1000 |
| commit | fa9d594c46679485c5e3642d2bd9e874a7e07b19 (patch) | |
| tree | 6b89dd416497717030a7cd35809538fb6f0e1b1d | |
| parent | f0d15c96d4ddcf32b6f910c4c2487ee705e4d493 (diff) | |
| parent | 0e995816f4fb69cef602b7fe82da68ced6be3b41 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback
* 'urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback:
don't busy retry the inode on failed grab_super_passive()
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/fs-writeback.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index 1599aa985fe..04cf3b91e50 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -618,7 +618,12 @@ static long __writeback_inodes_wb(struct bdi_writeback *wb, struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb; if (!grab_super_passive(sb)) { - requeue_io(inode, wb); + /* + * grab_super_passive() may fail consistently due to + * s_umount being grabbed by someone else. Don't use + * requeue_io() to avoid busy retrying the inode/sb. + */ + redirty_tail(inode, wb); continue; } wrote += writeback_sb_inodes(sb, wb, work); |