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, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>