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Jeff Layton d2caa3c549 writeback: guard against jiffies wraparound on inode->dirtied_when checks (try #3) 
The dirtied_when value on an inode is supposed to represent the first time
that an inode has one of its pages dirtied.  This value is in units of
jiffies.  It's used in several places in the writeback code to determine
when to write out an inode.

The problem is that these checks assume that dirtied_when is updated
periodically.  If an inode is continuously being used for I/O it can be
persistently marked as dirty and will continue to age.  Once the time
compared to is greater than or equal to half the maximum of the jiffies
type, the logic of the time_*() macros inverts and the opposite of what is
needed is returned.  On 32-bit architectures that's just under 25 days
(assuming HZ == 1000).

As the least-recently dirtied inode, it'll end up being the first one that
pdflush will try to write out.  sync_sb_inodes does this check:

	/* Was this inode dirtied after sync_sb_inodes was called? */
 	if (time_after(inode->dirtied_when, start))
 		break;

...but now dirtied_when appears to be in the future.  sync_sb_inodes bails
out without attempting to write any dirty inodes.  When this occurs,
pdflush will stop writing out inodes for this superblock.  Nothing can
unwedge it until jiffies moves out of the problematic window.

This patch fixes this problem by changing the checks against dirtied_when
to also check whether it appears to be in the future.  If it does, then we
consider the value to be far in the past.

This should shrink the problematic window of time to such a small period
(30s) as not to matter.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-02 19:04:48 -07:00
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9p vfs: simple_set_mnt() should return void 2009-03-27 14:44:03 -04:00
adfs constify dentry_operations: misc filesystems 2009-03-27 14:44:00 -04:00
affs constify dentry_operations: misc filesystems 2009-03-27 14:44:00 -04:00
afs proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::owner 2009-03-31 01:14:44 +04:00
autofs constify dentry_operations: autofs, autofs4 2009-03-27 14:44:00 -04:00
autofs4 autofs4: fix lookup deadlock 2009-04-01 08:59:23 -07:00
befs
bfs
btrfs Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable 2009-04-01 10:20:44 -07:00
cifs proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::owner 2009-03-31 01:14:44 +04:00
coda constify dentry_operations: misc filesystems 2009-03-27 14:44:00 -04:00
configfs constify dentry_operations: configfs 2009-03-27 14:44:03 -04:00
cramfs
debugfs
devpts Merge code for single and multiple-instance mounts 2009-03-27 14:44:04 -04:00
dlm dlm: fix length calculation in compat code 2009-03-11 12:23:59 -05:00
ecryptfs ecryptfs: use kzfree() 2009-04-01 08:59:23 -07:00
efs
exportfs
ext2 ext2: Zero our b_size in ext2_quota_read() 2009-03-26 02:18:38 +01:00
ext3 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-quota-2.6 2009-03-27 14:48:34 -07:00
ext4 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 2009-04-01 10:57:49 -07:00
fat constify dentry_operations: FAT 2009-03-27 14:44:01 -04:00
freevxfs
fuse mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match fault 2009-04-01 08:59:14 -07:00
gfs2 mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match fault 2009-04-01 08:59:14 -07:00
hfs constify dentry_operations: misc filesystems 2009-03-27 14:44:00 -04:00
hfsplus constify dentry_operations: misc filesystems 2009-03-27 14:44:00 -04:00
hostfs constify dentry_operations: misc filesystems 2009-03-27 14:44:00 -04:00
hpfs constify dentry_operations: misc filesystems 2009-03-27 14:44:00 -04:00
hppfs
hugetlbfs mm: reintroduce and deprecate rlimit based access for SHM_HUGETLB 2009-04-01 08:59:12 -07:00
isofs constify dentry_operations: misc filesystems 2009-03-27 14:44:00 -04:00
jbd jbd: fix return value of journal_start_commit() 2009-02-11 14:25:35 -08:00
jbd2 jbd2: Update locking coments 2009-03-27 17:20:40 -04:00
jffs2 [JFFS2] fix mount crash caused by removed nodes 2009-02-21 11:09:29 +01:00
jfs proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::owner 2009-03-31 01:14:44 +04:00
lockd NSM: Fix unaligned accesses in nsm_init_private() 2009-04-01 13:24:14 -04:00
minix Update my email address 2009-03-22 11:28:37 -07:00
ncpfs constify dentry_operations: misc filesystems 2009-03-27 14:44:00 -04:00
nfs Merge branch 'devel' into for-linus 2009-04-01 13:28:15 -04:00
nfs_common
nfsd Merge branch 'devel' into for-linus 2009-04-01 13:28:15 -04:00
nls
notify fs: avoid I_NEW inodes 2009-03-27 14:44:05 -04:00
ntfs ntfs: remove private wrapper of endian helpers 2009-04-01 08:59:18 -07:00
ocfs2 mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match fault 2009-04-01 08:59:14 -07:00
omfs
openpromfs
partitions Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6 2009-03-26 16:04:22 -07:00
proc nommu: fix a number of issues with the per-MM VMA patch 2009-04-02 19:04:48 -07:00
qnx4 fs/Kconfig: move qnx4 out 2009-01-22 13:15:59 +03:00
quota vfs: skip I_CLEAR state inodes 2009-04-02 19:04:48 -07:00
ramfs ramfs: add support for "mode=" mount option 2009-04-01 08:59:22 -07:00
reiserfs Merge branch 'proc-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc 2009-03-30 16:06:04 -07:00
romfs fs/Kconfig: move romfs out 2009-01-22 13:15:59 +03:00
smbfs constify dentry_operations: misc filesystems 2009-03-27 14:44:00 -04:00
squashfs Squashfs: Valid filesystems are flagged as bad by the corrupted fs patch 2009-03-12 03:23:48 +00:00
sysfs mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match fault: fix sysfs 2009-04-01 08:59:14 -07:00
sysv constify dentry_operations: misc filesystems 2009-03-27 14:44:00 -04:00
ubifs mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match fault 2009-04-01 08:59:14 -07:00
udf udf: Use lowercase names of quota functions 2009-03-26 02:18:36 +01:00
ufs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2009-03-27 16:23:12 -07:00
xfs mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match fault 2009-04-01 08:59:14 -07:00
aio.c aio: lookup_ioctx can return the wrong value when looking up a bogus context 2009-03-19 15:57:18 -07:00
anon_inodes.c constify dentry_operations: rest 2009-03-27 14:44:03 -04:00
attr.c vfs: Use lowercase names of quota functions 2009-03-26 02:18:35 +01:00
bad_inode.c
binfmt_aout.c
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
binfmt_elf.c elf core dump: fix get_user use 2009-02-06 17:34:07 -08:00
binfmt_em86.c
binfmt_flat.c
binfmt_misc.c
binfmt_script.c
binfmt_som.c
bio-integrity.c block: add private bio_set for bio integrity allocations 2009-03-24 12:35:17 +01:00
bio.c block: add private bio_set for bio integrity allocations 2009-03-24 12:35:17 +01:00
block_dev.c fs: move bdev code out of buffer.c 2009-03-27 14:44:03 -04:00
buffer.c filesystem freeze: allow SysRq emergency thaw to thaw frozen filesystems 2009-04-01 08:59:17 -07:00
char_dev.c
compat_binfmt_elf.c
compat_ioctl.c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-03-01 21:35:16 -08:00
compat.c fix setuid sometimes doesn't 2009-03-28 17:30:00 -07:00
dcache.c cleanup d_add_ci 2009-03-27 14:43:57 -04:00
dcookies.c
direct-io.c
drop_caches.c vfs: skip I_CLEAR state inodes 2009-04-02 19:04:48 -07:00
eventfd.c epoll keyed wakeups: make eventfd use keyed wakeups 2009-04-01 08:59:20 -07:00
eventpoll.c epoll keyed wakeups: teach epoll about hints coming with the wakeup key 2009-04-01 08:59:20 -07:00
exec.c fix setuid sometimes doesn't 2009-03-28 17:30:00 -07:00
fcntl.c Fix a lockdep warning in fasync_helper() 2009-03-30 08:00:24 -06:00
fifo.c
file_table.c Merge branch 'bkl-removal' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6 2009-03-26 16:14:02 -07:00
file.c
filesystems.c
fs-writeback.c writeback: guard against jiffies wraparound on inode->dirtied_when checks (try #3) 2009-04-02 19:04:48 -07:00
generic_acl.c
inode.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2009-03-27 16:23:12 -07:00
internal.h fix setuid sometimes doesn't 2009-03-28 17:30:00 -07:00
ioctl.c Rationalize fasync return values 2009-03-16 08:34:35 -06:00
ioprio.c
Kconfig quota: Move quota files into separate directory 2009-03-26 02:18:35 +01:00
Kconfig.binfmt
libfs.c vfs: simple_set_mnt() should return void 2009-03-27 14:44:03 -04:00
locks.c
Makefile quota: Move quota files into separate directory 2009-03-26 02:18:35 +01:00
mbcache.c
mpage.c
namei.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2009-03-27 16:23:12 -07:00
namespace.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2009-03-27 16:23:12 -07:00
nfsctl.c
no-block.c
open.c vfs: Use lowercase names of quota functions 2009-03-26 02:18:35 +01:00
pipe.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2009-03-27 16:23:12 -07:00
pnode.c
pnode.h
posix_acl.c
read_write.c
read_write.h
readdir.c
select.c
seq_file.c cpumask: fix seq_bitmap_*() functions. 2009-03-30 22:05:11 +10:30
signalfd.c
splice.c
stack.c
stat.c
super.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2009-03-27 16:23:12 -07:00
sync.c Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-quota-2.6 2009-03-27 14:48:34 -07:00
timerfd.c timerfd: add flags check 2009-02-18 15:37:53 -08:00
utimes.c
xattr_acl.c
xattr.c