On 03/04/2015 08:37 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
Subject: writeback: add missing INITIAL_JIFFIES init in global_update_bandwidth() global_update_bandwidth() uses static variable update_time as the timestamp for the last update but forgets to initialize it to INITIALIZE_JIFFIES. This means that global_dirty_limit will be 5 mins into the future on 32bit and some large amount jiffies into the past on 64bit. This isn't critical as the only effect is that global_dirty_limit won't be updated for the first 5 mins after booting on 32bit machines, especially given the auxiliary nature of global_dirty_limit's role - protecting against global dirty threshold's sudden dips; however, it does lead to unintended suboptimal behavior. Fix it. Fixes: c42843f2f0bb ("writeback: introduce smoothed global dirty limit") Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- Added the "fixes" tag. Jens, can you please route this one?
Yup will do, thanks Tejun. -- Jens Axboe -- 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