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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/fs-writeback.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index 5ed2ce9a28d..fe190a8b0bc 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -419,6 +419,15 @@ writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc) spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); inode->i_state &= ~I_SYNC; if (!(inode->i_state & I_FREEING)) { + /* + * Sync livelock prevention. Each inode is tagged and synced in + * one shot. If still dirty, it will be redirty_tail()'ed below. + * Update the dirty time to prevent enqueue and sync it again. + */ + if ((inode->i_state & I_DIRTY) && + (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)) + inode->dirtied_when = jiffies; + if (mapping_tagged(mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY)) { /* * We didn't write back all the pages. nfs_writepages() |