diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c
index be5c51d..f0994aedc 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c
@@ -336,6 +336,32 @@
 	return error;
 }
 
+int
+xfs_log_dirty_inode(
+	struct xfs_inode	*ip,
+	struct xfs_perag	*pag,
+	int			flags)
+{
+	struct xfs_mount	*mp = ip->i_mount;
+	struct xfs_trans	*tp;
+	int			error;
+
+	if (!ip->i_update_core)
+		return 0;
+
+	tp = xfs_trans_alloc(mp, XFS_TRANS_FSYNC_TS);
+	error = xfs_trans_reserve(tp, 0, XFS_FSYNC_TS_LOG_RES(mp), 0, 0, 0);
+	if (error) {
+		xfs_trans_cancel(tp, 0);
+		return error;
+	}
+
+	xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
+	xfs_trans_ijoin(tp, ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
+	xfs_trans_log_inode(tp, ip, XFS_ILOG_CORE);
+	return xfs_trans_commit(tp, 0);
+}
+
 /*
  * When remounting a filesystem read-only or freezing the filesystem, we have
  * two phases to execute. This first phase is syncing the data before we
@@ -359,6 +385,16 @@
 {
 	int			error, error2 = 0;
 
+	/*
+	 * Log all pending size and timestamp updates.  The vfs writeback
+	 * code is supposed to do this, but due to its overagressive
+	 * livelock detection it will skip inodes where appending writes
+	 * were written out in the first non-blocking sync phase if their
+	 * completion took long enough that it happened after taking the
+	 * timestamp for the cut-off in the blocking phase.
+	 */
+	xfs_inode_ag_iterator(mp, xfs_log_dirty_inode, 0);
+
 	xfs_qm_sync(mp, SYNC_TRYLOCK);
 	xfs_qm_sync(mp, SYNC_WAIT);