A defrag operation can dirty a lot of pages, specially if operating on the entire file or a large file range. Any task dirtying pages should periodically call balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(), as stated in that function's comments, otherwise they can leave too many dirty pages in the system. This is what we did before the refactoring in 5.16, and it should have remained, just like in the buffered write path and relocation. So restore that behaviour. Fixes: 7b508037d4cac3 ("btrfs: defrag: use defrag_one_cluster() to implement btrfs_defrag_file()") CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.16 Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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