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authorWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>2010-08-11 14:17:42 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-08-12 08:43:30 -0700
commit4ea879b96d437693485d21f4b7e1eb72f7615fc2 (patch)
tree142899843f2ce27334dbd134cd1bab3058cc8028 /fs/fs-writeback.c
parent23539afc71937dbaca7de2229669f4475ff4ea7b (diff)
writeback: fix queue_io() ordering
This was not a bug, since b_io is empty for kupdate writeback. The next patch will do requeue_io() for non-kupdate writeback, so let's fix it. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com> Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fs-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/fs-writeback.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 1ce364bbb003..863bfb0eb492 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -249,10 +249,18 @@ static void move_expired_inodes(struct list_head *delaying_queue,
/*
* Queue all expired dirty inodes for io, eldest first.
+ * Before
+ * newly dirtied b_dirty b_io b_more_io
+ * =============> gf edc BA
+ * After
+ * newly dirtied b_dirty b_io b_more_io
+ * =============> g fBAedc
+ * |
+ * +--> dequeue for IO
*/
static void queue_io(struct bdi_writeback *wb, unsigned long *older_than_this)
{
- list_splice_init(&wb->b_more_io, wb->b_io.prev);
+ list_splice_init(&wb->b_more_io, &wb->b_io);
move_expired_inodes(&wb->b_dirty, &wb->b_io, older_than_this);
}