On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 11:30:01 +0100 Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote: > This reverts commit c4a391b53a72d2df4ee97f96f78c1d5971b47489. Dave > Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> has reported the commit may cause some > inodes to be left out from sync(2). This is because we can call > redirty_tail() for some inode (which sets i_dirtied_when to current time) > after sync(2) has started or similarly requeue_inode() can set > i_dirtied_when to current time if writeback had to skip some pages. The > real problem is in the functions clobbering i_dirtied_when but fixing > that isn't trivial so revert is a safer choice for now. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> No cc:stable? The patch is applicable to 3.13.x. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>