From d92109891f21cf367caa2cc6dff11a4411d917f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kemeng Shi Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:19:54 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] fs/writeback: bail out if there is no more inodes for IO and queued once For case there is no more inodes for IO in io list from last wb_writeback, We may bail out early even there is inode in dirty list should be written back. Only bail out when we queued once to avoid missing dirtied inode. This is from code reading... Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240228091958.288260-3-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara [brauner@kernel.org: fold in memory corruption fix from Jan in [1]] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240405132346.bid7gibby3lxxhez@quack3 [1] Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index fe634f00f4d9..f864c7d6ef92 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -2076,6 +2076,7 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, struct inode *inode; long progress; struct blk_plug plug; + bool queued = false; blk_start_plug(&plug); for (;;) { @@ -2118,8 +2119,10 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, dirtied_before = jiffies; trace_writeback_start(wb, work); - if (list_empty(&wb->b_io)) + if (list_empty(&wb->b_io)) { queue_io(wb, work, dirtied_before); + queued = true; + } if (work->sb) progress = writeback_sb_inodes(work->sb, wb, work); else @@ -2134,7 +2137,7 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, * mean the overall work is done. So we keep looping as long * as made some progress on cleaning pages or inodes. */ - if (progress) { + if (progress || !queued) { spin_unlock(&wb->list_lock); continue; }