There used to be a 'retry' label in between the two (identical) checks when first introduced in commit f446daaea9d4 ("mm: implement writeback livelock avoidance using page tagging"), and later modified/updated in commit 6e6938b6d313 ("writeback: introduce .tagged_writepages for the WB_SYNC_NONE sync stage"). The label has been removed in commit 64081362e8ff ("mm/page-writeback.c: fix range_cyclic writeback vs writepages deadlock"), and the (identical) checks are now present / performed immediately one after another. So, remove/deduplicate the latter check, moving tag_pages_for_writeback() into the former check before the 'tag' variable assignment, so it's clear that it's not used in this (similarly-named) function call but only later in pagevec_lookup_range_tag(). Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page-writeback.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 2caf780a42e7..86c18112b89b 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -2183,11 +2183,10 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping, range_whole = 1; } if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages) + tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, index, end); tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE; else tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY; - if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages) - tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, index, end); done_index = index; while (!done && (index <= end)) { int i; -- 2.20.1