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| author | Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> | 2004-04-22 16:32:08 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2004-04-22 16:32:08 -0700 |
| commit | 1ed73535789d5558f91d214e089a659ab59ae80f (patch) | |
| tree | bdee2ad5b4b870f8695519be8c0a4dac716ad966 /include/linux/errqueue.h | |
| parent | 8a51beef39cfd11a4f0ba850813cd99c5adac2c3 (diff) | |
[PATCH] writeback livelock fix
If a filesystem's ->writepage implementation repeatedly refuses to write the
page (it keeps on redirtying it instead) (reiserfs seems to do this) then the
writeback logic can get stuck repeately trying to write the same page.
Fix that up by correctly setting wbc->pages_skipped, to tell the writeback
logic that things aren't working out.
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