Re: [PATCH] fs-writeback: do not requeue a clean inode having skipped pages

[Christian Brauner]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2023 22:51:31 -0600, Chunhai Guo wrote:
> When writing back an inode and performing an fsync on it concurrently, a
> deadlock issue may arise as shown below. In each writeback iteration, a
> clean inode is requeued to the wb->b_dirty queue due to non-zero
> pages_skipped, without anything actually being written. This causes an
> infinite loop and prevents the plug from being flushed, resulting in a
> deadlock. We now avoid requeuing the clean inode to prevent this issue.
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.misc branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.misc

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      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/3d744ef7ea7a