Andrew, Here are the writeback livelock fixes (patch 3, 4) from Jan Kara. changes from v1: - collect the various changelog and comment changes from email discussions [PATCH 1/5] writeback: integrated background writeback work [PATCH 2/5] writeback: trace wakeup event for background writeback [PATCH 3/5] writeback: stop background/kupdate works from livelocking other works [PATCH 4/5] writeback: avoid livelocking WB_SYNC_ALL writeback [PATCH 5/5] writeback: check skipped pages on WB_SYNC_ALL fs/fs-writeback.c | 105 +++++++++++++++++++++++------ include/trace/events/writeback.h | 1 2 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) Thanks, Fengguang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html