writeback: Fix periodic writeback after fs mount
commit a5faeaf9109578e65e1a32e2a3e76c8b47e7dcb6 upstream.
Code in blkdev.c moves a device inode to default_backing_dev_info when
the last reference to the device is put and moves the device inode back
to its bdi when the first reference is acquired. This includes moving to
wb.b_dirty list if the device inode is dirty. The code however doesn't
setup timer to wake corresponding flusher thread and while wb.b_dirty
list is non-empty __mark_inode_dirty() will not set it up either. Thus
periodic writeback is effectively disabled until a sync(2) call which can
lead to unexpected data loss in case of crash or power failure.
Fix the problem by setting up a timer for periodic writeback in case we
add the first dirty inode to wb.b_dirty list in bdev_inode_switch_bdi().
Reported-by: Bert De Jonghe <Bert.DeJonghe@amplidata.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index 2f3879c..319d9c7 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -57,17 +57,24 @@
struct backing_dev_info *dst)
{
struct backing_dev_info *old = inode->i_data.backing_dev_info;
+ bool wakeup_bdi = false;
if (unlikely(dst == old)) /* deadlock avoidance */
return;
bdi_lock_two(&old->wb, &dst->wb);
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
inode->i_data.backing_dev_info = dst;
- if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY)
+ if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY) {
+ if (bdi_cap_writeback_dirty(dst) && !wb_has_dirty_io(&dst->wb))
+ wakeup_bdi = true;
list_move(&inode->i_wb_list, &dst->wb.b_dirty);
+ }
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
spin_unlock(&old->wb.list_lock);
spin_unlock(&dst->wb.list_lock);
+
+ if (wakeup_bdi)
+ bdi_wakeup_thread_delayed(dst);
}
sector_t blkdev_max_block(struct block_device *bdev)