linux/fs/ext4
Wu Fengguang 6e6938b6d3 writeback: introduce .tagged_writepages for the WB_SYNC_NONE sync stage
sync(2) is performed in two stages: the WB_SYNC_NONE sync and the
WB_SYNC_ALL sync. Identify the first stage with .tagged_writepages and
do livelock prevention for it, too.

Jan's commit f446daaea9 ("mm: implement writeback livelock avoidance
using page tagging") is a partial fix in that it only fixed the
WB_SYNC_ALL phase livelock.

Although ext4 is tested to no longer livelock with commit f446daaea9,
it may due to some "redirty_tail() after pages_skipped" effect which
is by no means a guarantee for _all_ the file systems.

Note that writeback_inodes_sb() is called by not only sync(), they are
treated the same because the other callers also need livelock prevention.

Impact:  It changes the order in which pages/inodes are synced to disk.
Now in the WB_SYNC_NONE stage, it won't proceed to write the next inode
until finished with the current inode.

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-06-08 08:25:20 +08:00
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acl.c userns: rename is_owner_or_cap to inode_owner_or_capable 2011-03-23 19:47:13 -07:00
acl.h fs: provide rcu-walk aware permission i_ops 2011-01-07 17:50:29 +11:00
balloc.c ext4: add flag to ext4_has_free_blocks 2011-05-25 07:41:26 -04:00
bitmap.c
block_validity.c ext4: rename {exit,init}_ext4_*() to ext4_{exit,init}_*() 2010-10-27 21:30:14 -04:00
dir.c ext4: Use ext4_error_file() to print the pathname to the corrupted inode 2011-01-10 12:10:55 -05:00
ext4_extents.h ext4: drop ec_type from the ext4_ext_cache structure 2011-01-10 12:13:26 -05:00
ext4_jbd2.c ext4: remove unneeded ext4_journal_get_undo_access 2011-05-09 10:58:45 -04:00
ext4_jbd2.h ext4: remove unneeded ext4_journal_get_undo_access 2011-05-09 10:58:45 -04:00
ext4.h fs: pass exact type of data dirties to ->dirty_inode 2011-05-27 07:04:40 -04:00
extents.c ext4: teach ext4_ext_split to calculate extents efficiently 2011-05-25 17:41:48 -04:00
file.c ext4: Convert ext4 to new truncate calling convention 2011-05-25 17:39:48 -04:00
fsync.c ext4: fix waiting and sending of a barrier in ext4_sync_file() 2011-05-24 12:00:54 -04:00
hash.c
ialloc.c Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 2011-03-25 09:57:41 -07:00
inode.c writeback: introduce .tagged_writepages for the WB_SYNC_NONE sync stage 2011-06-08 08:25:20 +08:00
ioctl.c Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 2011-03-25 09:57:41 -07:00
Kconfig ext4: Don't ask about supporting ext2/3 in ext4 if ext4 is not configured 2009-12-21 10:54:09 -05:00
Makefile ext4: add support for multiple mount protection 2011-05-24 18:31:25 -04:00
mballoc.c ext4: add flag to ext4_has_free_blocks 2011-05-25 07:41:26 -04:00
mballoc.h ext4: remove alloc_semp 2011-05-09 21:52:36 -04:00
migrate.c ext4: set extents flag when migrating file to use extents 2011-05-03 09:34:42 -04:00
mmp.c ext4: add support for multiple mount protection 2011-05-24 18:31:25 -04:00
move_extent.c ext4: clean up some wait_on_page_writeback calls 2011-05-18 13:53:20 -04:00
namei.c ext4: don't dereference null pointer when make_indexed_dir() fails 2011-05-15 00:19:41 -04:00
page-io.c ext4: don't set PageUptodate in ext4_end_bio() 2011-04-30 13:26:26 -04:00
resize.c ext4: unify the ext4_handle_release_buffer() api 2011-03-20 22:57:02 -04:00
super.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djm/tmem 2011-05-26 10:50:56 -07:00
symlink.c ext4: symlink must be handled via filesystem specific operation 2010-05-16 02:00:00 -04:00
xattr_security.c fs/vfs/security: pass last path component to LSM on inode creation 2011-02-01 11:12:29 -05:00
xattr_trusted.c ext4: constify xattr_handler 2010-05-21 18:31:19 -04:00
xattr_user.c ext4: constify xattr_handler 2010-05-21 18:31:19 -04:00
xattr.c ext4: add flag to ext4_has_free_blocks 2011-05-25 07:41:26 -04:00
xattr.h fs/vfs/security: pass last path component to LSM on inode creation 2011-02-01 11:12:29 -05:00