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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fs-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/fs-writeback.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index ae4e51e91ee3..aca4b4811394 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -2024,7 +2024,6 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, struct blk_plug plug; blk_start_plug(&plug); - spin_lock(&wb->list_lock); for (;;) { /* * Stop writeback when nr_pages has been consumed @@ -2049,6 +2048,9 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, if (work->for_background && !wb_over_bg_thresh(wb)) break; + + spin_lock(&wb->list_lock); + /* * Kupdate and background works are special and we want to * include all inodes that need writing. Livelock avoidance is @@ -2078,13 +2080,19 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, * mean the overall work is done. So we keep looping as long * as made some progress on cleaning pages or inodes. */ - if (progress) + if (progress) { + spin_unlock(&wb->list_lock); continue; + } + /* * No more inodes for IO, bail */ - if (list_empty(&wb->b_more_io)) + if (list_empty(&wb->b_more_io)) { + spin_unlock(&wb->list_lock); break; + } + /* * Nothing written. Wait for some inode to * become available for writeback. Otherwise @@ -2096,9 +2104,7 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, spin_unlock(&wb->list_lock); /* This function drops i_lock... */ inode_sleep_on_writeback(inode); - spin_lock(&wb->list_lock); } - spin_unlock(&wb->list_lock); blk_finish_plug(&plug); return nr_pages - work->nr_pages; |