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1 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 8d23b0b38717..08b9f83b645e 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -141,6 +141,30 @@ static int write_inode(struct inode *inode, int sync)
}
/*
+ * Redirty an inode: set its when-it-was dirtied timestamp and move it to the
+ * furthest end of its superblock's dirty-inode list.
+ *
+ * Before stamping the inode's ->dirtied_when, we check to see whether it is
+ * already the most-recently-dirtied inode on the s_dirty list. If that is
+ * the case then the inode must have been redirtied while it was being written
+ * out and we don't reset its dirtied_when.
+ */
+static void redirty_tail(struct inode *inode)
+{
+ struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
+
+ 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;
+ }
+ list_move(&inode->i_list, &sb->s_dirty);
+}
+
+/*
* Write a single inode's dirty pages and inode data out to disk.
* If `wait' is set, wait on the writeout.
*
@@ -219,7 +243,7 @@ __sync_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
* Someone redirtied the inode while were writing back
* the pages.
*/
- list_move(&inode->i_list, &sb->s_dirty);
+ redirty_tail(inode);
} else if (atomic_read(&inode->i_count)) {
/*
* The inode is clean, inuse