For migrations called in MIGRATE_SYNC mode, skip migrating the folio if it is under writeback and has the AS_WRITEBACK_MAY_BLOCK flag set on its mapping. If the AS_WRITEBACK_MAY_BLOCK flag is set on the mapping, the writeback may take an indeterminate amount of time to complete, so we should not wait. Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/migrate.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c index df91248755e4..1d038a4202ae 100644 --- a/mm/migrate.c +++ b/mm/migrate.c @@ -1260,7 +1260,10 @@ static int migrate_folio_unmap(new_folio_t get_new_folio, */ switch (mode) { case MIGRATE_SYNC: - break; + if (!src->mapping || + !mapping_writeback_may_block(src->mapping)) + break; + fallthrough; default: rc = -EBUSY; goto out; -- 2.43.5