[PATCH 6/6] prevent time-ordering warnings

[Fengguang Wu]

It's -mm staff.

Just to make the inode list time ordering check logic comfortable.
Otherwise the old behavior is preferred.

Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/fs-writeback.c |    9 +--------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.23-rc2-mm2.orig/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc2-mm2/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -224,14 +224,7 @@ static void redirty_tail(struct inode *i
 	struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
 
 	check_dirty_inode(inode);
-	if (!list_empty(&sb->s_dirty)) {
-		struct inode *tail_inode;
-
-		tail_inode = list_entry(sb->s_dirty.next, struct inode, i_list);
-		if (!time_after_eq(inode->dirtied_when,
-				tail_inode->dirtied_when))
-			inode->dirtied_when = jiffies;
-	}
+	inode->dirtied_when = jiffies;
 	list_move(&inode->i_list, &sb->s_dirty);
 	check_dirty_inode(inode);
 }

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