4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 4b270a8cc5047682f0a3f3f9af3b498408dbd2bc ] In synchronous scenario, like in checkpoint(), we are going to flush dirty node pages to device synchronously, we can easily failed writebacking node page due to trylock_page() failure, especially in condition of intensive lock competition, which can cause long latency of checkpoint(). So let's use lock_page() in synchronous scenario to avoid this issue. Signed-off-by: Yunlei He <heyunlei@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/f2fs/node.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/f2fs/node.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/node.c @@ -1610,7 +1610,9 @@ next_step: !is_cold_node(page))) continue; lock_node: - if (!trylock_page(page)) + if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) + lock_page(page); + else if (!trylock_page(page)) continue; if (unlikely(page->mapping != NODE_MAPPING(sbi))) {