From 0b5649278e39a068aaf91399941bab1b4a4a3cc2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Chinner Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 10:37:18 +1000 Subject: writeback: pay attention to wbc->nr_to_write in write_cache_pages If a filesystem writes more than one page in ->writepage, write_cache_pages fails to notice this and continues to attempt writeback when wbc->nr_to_write has gone negative - this trace was captured from XFS: wbc_writeback_start: towrt=1024 wbc_writepage: towrt=1024 wbc_writepage: towrt=0 wbc_writepage: towrt=-1 wbc_writepage: towrt=-5 wbc_writepage: towrt=-21 wbc_writepage: towrt=-85 This has adverse effects on filesystem writeback behaviour. write_cache_pages() needs to terminate after a certain number of pages are written, not after a certain number of calls to ->writepage are made. This is a regression introduced by 17bc6c30cf6bfffd816bdc53682dd46fc34a2cf4 ("vfs: Add no_nrwrite_index_update writeback control flag"), but cannot be reverted directly due to subsequent bug fixes that have gone in on top of it. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/page-writeback.c | 15 +++++---------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 5fa63bdf52e4..b3dbb8040ed5 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -835,7 +835,6 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t done_index; int cycled; int range_whole = 0; - long nr_to_write = wbc->nr_to_write; pagevec_init(&pvec, 0); if (wbc->range_cyclic) { @@ -935,11 +934,10 @@ continue_unlock: done = 1; break; } - } + } - if (nr_to_write > 0) { - nr_to_write--; - if (nr_to_write == 0 && + if (wbc->nr_to_write > 0) { + if (--wbc->nr_to_write == 0 && wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) { /* * We stop writing back only if we are @@ -970,11 +968,8 @@ continue_unlock: end = writeback_index - 1; goto retry; } - if (!wbc->no_nrwrite_index_update) { - if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && nr_to_write > 0)) - mapping->writeback_index = done_index; - wbc->nr_to_write = nr_to_write; - } + if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && wbc->nr_to_write > 0)) + mapping->writeback_index = done_index; return ret; } -- cgit v1.2.3