This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
writeback: Fix periodic writeback after fs mount
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
writeback-fix-periodic-writeback-after-fs-mount.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From a5faeaf9109578e65e1a32e2a3e76c8b47e7dcb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:04:02 +0200
Subject: writeback: Fix periodic writeback after fs mount
From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
commit a5faeaf9109578e65e1a32e2a3e76c8b47e7dcb6 upstream.
Code in blkdev.c moves a device inode to default_backing_dev_info when
the last reference to the device is put and moves the device inode back
to its bdi when the first reference is acquired. This includes moving to
wb.b_dirty list if the device inode is dirty. The code however doesn't
setup timer to wake corresponding flusher thread and while wb.b_dirty
list is non-empty __mark_inode_dirty() will not set it up either. Thus
periodic writeback is effectively disabled until a sync(2) call which can
lead to unexpected data loss in case of crash or power failure.
Fix the problem by setting up a timer for periodic writeback in case we
add the first dirty inode to wb.b_dirty list in bdev_inode_switch_bdi().
Reported-by: Bert De Jonghe <Bert.DeJonghe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/block_dev.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -57,17 +57,24 @@ static void bdev_inode_switch_bdi(struct
struct backing_dev_info *dst)
{
struct backing_dev_info *old = inode->i_data.backing_dev_info;
+ bool wakeup_bdi = false;
if (unlikely(dst == old)) /* deadlock avoidance */
return;
bdi_lock_two(&old->wb, &dst->wb);
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
inode->i_data.backing_dev_info = dst;
- if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY)
+ if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY) {
+ if (bdi_cap_writeback_dirty(dst) && !wb_has_dirty_io(&dst->wb))
+ wakeup_bdi = true;
list_move(&inode->i_wb_list, &dst->wb.b_dirty);
+ }
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
spin_unlock(&old->wb.list_lock);
spin_unlock(&dst->wb.list_lock);
+
+ if (wakeup_bdi)
+ bdi_wakeup_thread_delayed(dst);
}
sector_t blkdev_max_block(struct block_device *bdev)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jack@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/writeback-fix-periodic-writeback-after-fs-mount.patch
queue-3.4/ext3-fix-data-journal-fast-mount-umount-hang.patch
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