From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "writeback: do not sync data dirtied after sync start"
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 11:57:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140221115742.04f893323ce6f9d693212787@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1392978601-18002-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz>
On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 11:30:01 +0100 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
> This reverts commit c4a391b53a72d2df4ee97f96f78c1d5971b47489. Dave
> Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> has reported the commit may cause some
> inodes to be left out from sync(2). This is because we can call
> redirty_tail() for some inode (which sets i_dirtied_when to current time)
> after sync(2) has started or similarly requeue_inode() can set
> i_dirtied_when to current time if writeback had to skip some pages. The
> real problem is in the functions clobbering i_dirtied_when but fixing
> that isn't trivial so revert is a safer choice for now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
No cc:stable? The patch is applicable to 3.13.x.
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2014-02-21 10:30 Jan Kara
2014-02-21 19:57 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2014-02-22 1:04 ` Jan Kara
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