If there is a unwritten but clean buffer in a page and there is a dirty buffer after the buffer, then mpage_submit_io does not write the dirty buffer out. As a result, da_writepages loops forever. This patch fixes the problem by checking dirty flag. Signed-off-by: Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 7 +++++-- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 755f6c7..20a1d17 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -1339,8 +1339,11 @@ static int mpage_da_submit_io(struct mpage_da_data *mpd, clear_buffer_unwritten(bh); } - /* skip page if block allocation undone */ - if (buffer_delay(bh) || buffer_unwritten(bh)) + /* + * skip page if block allocation undone and + * block is dirty + */ + if (ext4_bh_delay_or_unwritten(NULL, bh)) skip_page = 1; bh = bh->b_this_page; block_start += bh->b_size; -- 1.7.5.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html