From 0dc83bd30b0bf5410c0933cfbbf8853248eff0a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 11:19:04 +0100 Subject: Revert "writeback: do not sync data dirtied after sync start" This reverts commit c4a391b53a72d2df4ee97f96f78c1d5971b47489. Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> has reported the commit may cause some inodes to be left out from sync(2). This is because we can call redirty_tail() for some inode (which sets i_dirtied_when to current time) after sync(2) has started or similarly requeue_inode() can set i_dirtied_when to current time if writeback had to skip some pages. The real problem is in the functions clobbering i_dirtied_when but fixing that isn't trivial so revert is a safer choice for now. CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # >= 3.13 Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> --- include/linux/writeback.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/writeback.h') diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h index fc0e4320aa6..021b8a319b9 100644 --- a/include/linux/writeback.h +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ void writeback_inodes_sb_nr(struct super_block *, unsigned long nr, int try_to_writeback_inodes_sb(struct super_block *, enum wb_reason reason); int try_to_writeback_inodes_sb_nr(struct super_block *, unsigned long nr, enum wb_reason reason); -void sync_inodes_sb(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long older_than_this); +void sync_inodes_sb(struct super_block *); void wakeup_flusher_threads(long nr_pages, enum wb_reason reason); void inode_wait_for_writeback(struct inode *inode); -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2