[PATCH block/for-4.0-fixes] writeback: add missing INITIAL_JIFFIES init in global_update_bandwidth()

[Tejun Heo]

global_update_bandwidth() uses static variable update_time as the
timestamp for the last update but forgets to initialize it to
INITIALIZE_JIFFIES.

This means that global_dirty_limit will be 5 mins into the future on
32bit and some large amount jiffies into the past on 64bit.  This
isn't critical as the only effect is that global_dirty_limit won't be
updated for the first 5 mins after booting on 32bit machines,
especially given the auxiliary nature of global_dirty_limit's role -
protecting against global dirty threshold's sudden dips; however, it
does lead to unintended suboptimal behavior.  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
 mm/page-writeback.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -922,7 +922,7 @@ static void global_update_bandwidth(unsi
 				    unsigned long now)
 {
 	static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dirty_lock);
-	static unsigned long update_time;
+	static unsigned long update_time = INITIAL_JIFFIES;
 
 	/*
 	 * check locklessly first to optimize away locking for the most time
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