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().
Backport of upstream commit a5faeaf9109578e65e1a32e2a3e76c8b47e7dcb6 for
3.0-stable kernel.
Reported-by: Bert De Jonghe <Bert.DeJonghe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/block_dev.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 610e8e0..4633d60 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -55,13 +55,21 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(I_BDEV);
static void bdev_inode_switch_bdi(struct inode *inode,
struct backing_dev_info *dst)
{
+ bool wakeup_bdi = false;
+
spin_lock(&inode_wb_list_lock);
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(&inode_wb_list_lock);
+
+ if (wakeup_bdi)
+ bdi_wakeup_thread_delayed(dst);
}
static sector_t max_block(struct block_device *bdev)
--
1.8.1.4
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