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Andrew Morton authored
If pdflush hits a locked-and-clean buffer in __block_write_full_page() it will just pass over the buffer. Typically the buffer is an ext3 data=ordered buffer which is being written by kjournald, but a similar thing can happen with blockdev buffers and ll_rw_block(). This is bad because the buffer is still under I/O and a subsequent fsync's fdatawait() needs to know about it. It is not practical to tag the page for writeback - only the submitter of the I/O can do that, because the submitter has control of the end_io handler. So instead, redirty the page so a subsequent fsync's fdatawrite() will wait on the underway I/O. There is a risk that pdflush::background_writeout() will lock up, repeatedly trying and failing to write the same page. This is prevented by ensuring that background_writeout() always throttles when it made no progress.
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