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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/gfs2/aops.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/gfs2/aops.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/aops.c b/fs/gfs2/aops.c index ed7a2e252ad8..68ed06962537 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/aops.c +++ b/fs/gfs2/aops.c @@ -234,7 +234,19 @@ out: static int gfs2_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc) { - return mpage_writepages(mapping, wbc, gfs2_get_block_noalloc); + struct gfs2_sbd *sdp = gfs2_mapping2sbd(mapping); + int ret = mpage_writepages(mapping, wbc, gfs2_get_block_noalloc); + + /* + * Even if we didn't write any pages here, we might still be holding + * dirty pages in the ail. We forcibly flush the ail because we don't + * want balance_dirty_pages() to loop indefinitely trying to write out + * pages held in the ail that it can't find. + */ + if (ret == 0) + set_bit(SDF_FORCE_AIL_FLUSH, &sdp->sd_flags); + + return ret; } /** |