The patch titled writeback-stop-background-kupdate-works-from-livelocking-other-works-update has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was writeback-stop-background-kupdate-works-from-livelocking-other-works-update.patch This patch was dropped because it was folded into writeback-stop-background-kupdate-works-from-livelocking-other-works.patch The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: writeback-stop-background-kupdate-works-from-livelocking-other-works-update From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/fs-writeback.c~writeback-stop-background-kupdate-works-from-livelocking-other-works-update fs/fs-writeback.c --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c~writeback-stop-background-kupdate-works-from-livelocking-other-works-update +++ a/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -651,9 +651,10 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writ break; /* - * Background writeout and kupdate-style writeback are - * easily livelockable. Stop them if there is other work - * to do so that e.g. sync can proceed. + * Background writeout and kupdate-style writeback may + * run forever. Stop them if there is other work to do + * so that e.g. sync can proceed. They'll be restarted + * after the other works are all done. */ if ((work->for_background || work->for_kupdate) && !list_empty(&wb->bdi->work_list)) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch writeback-integrated-background-writeback-work.patch writeback-trace-wakeup-event-for-background-writeback.patch writeback-stop-background-kupdate-works-from-livelocking-other-works.patch writeback-avoid-livelocking-wb_sync_all-writeback.patch writeback-avoid-livelocking-wb_sync_all-writeback-update.patch mm-page-writebackc-fix-__set_page_dirty_no_writeback-return-value.patch mm-find_get_pages_contig-fixlet.patch mm-smaps-export-mlock-information.patch writeback-avoid-unnecessary-determine_dirtyable_memory-call.patch writeback-avoid-unnecessary-determine_dirtyable_memory-call-fix.patch mm-migration-use-rcu_dereference_protected-when-dereferencing-the-radix-tree-slot-during-file-page-migration.patch memcg-add-page_cgroup-flags-for-dirty-page-tracking.patch memcg-document-cgroup-dirty-memory-interfaces.patch memcg-document-cgroup-dirty-memory-interfaces-fix.patch memcg-create-extensible-page-stat-update-routines.patch memcg-add-lock-to-synchronize-page-accounting-and-migration.patch memcg-use-zalloc-rather-than-mallocmemset.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html