From 1b43ef91d40190b16ba10218e66d5c2c4ba11de3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Morton Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:30:35 -0700 Subject: writeback: fix comment, use helper function There's a comment in there which claims that the inode is left on s_io if nfs chickened out of writing some data. But that's not been true for three years. 9290280ced13c85689adeffa587e9a53bd3a5873 fixed a livelock by moving these inodes back onto s_dirty. Fix the comment. In the second leg of the `if', use redirty_tail() rather than open-coding it. Add weaselly comment indicating lack of confidence in the code and lack of the fortitude which would be needed to fiddle with it. Cc: Mike Waychison Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index eb8dc1f..a3d7a82 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -201,7 +201,6 @@ __sync_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc) { unsigned dirty; struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping; - struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb; int wait = wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL; int ret; @@ -237,7 +236,16 @@ __sync_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc) /* * We didn't write back all the pages. nfs_writepages() * sometimes bales out without doing anything. Redirty - * the inode. It is still on sb->s_io. + * the inode. It is moved from s_io onto s_dirty. + */ + /* + * akpm: if the caller was the kupdate function we put + * this inode at the head of s_dirty so it gets first + * consideration. Otherwise, move it to the tail, for + * the reasons described there. I'm not really sure + * how much sense this makes. Presumably I had a good + * reasons for doing it this way, and I'd rather not + * muck with it at present. */ if (wbc->for_kupdate) { /* @@ -257,8 +265,7 @@ __sync_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc) * all the other files. */ inode->i_state |= I_DIRTY_PAGES; - inode->dirtied_when = jiffies; - list_move(&inode->i_list, &sb->s_dirty); + redirty_tail(inode); } } else if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY) { /* -- cgit v1.1