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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2011-12-30 13:59:37 -0200
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2011-12-30 13:59:37 -0200
commitb4d48c942c17ce3d3a330ad91e109e522bc97378 (patch)
tree3365292f3a5a502edb51492d011fd326c930ca40 /fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c
parent1a5cd29631a6b75e49e6ad8a770ab9d69cda0fa2 (diff)
parent5f0a6e2d503896062f641639dacfe5055c2f593b (diff)
Merge tag 'v3.2-rc7' into staging/for_v3.3
Linux 3.2-rc7 * tag 'v3.2-rc7': (1304 commits) Linux 3.2-rc7 netfilter: xt_connbytes: handle negation correctly Btrfs: call d_instantiate after all ops are setup Btrfs: fix worker lock misuse in find_worker net: relax rcvbuf limits rps: fix insufficient bounds checking in store_rps_dev_flow_table_cnt() net: introduce DST_NOPEER dst flag mqprio: Avoid panic if no options are provided bridge: provide a mtu() method for fake_dst_ops md/bitmap: It is OK to clear bits during recovery. md: don't give up looking for spares on first failure-to-add md/raid5: ensure correct assessment of drives during degraded reshape. md/linear: fix hot-add of devices to linear arrays. sparc64: Fix MSIQ HV call ordering in pci_sun4v_msiq_build_irq(). pata_of_platform: Add missing CONFIG_OF_IRQ dependency. ipv4: using prefetch requires including prefetch.h VFS: Fix race between CPU hotplug and lglocks vfs: __read_cache_page should use gfp argument rather than GFP_KERNEL USB: Fix usb/isp1760 build on sparc net: Add a flow_cache_flush_deferred function ... Conflicts: drivers/media/common/tuners/tda18218.c drivers/media/video/omap3isp/ispccdc.c drivers/staging/media/as102/as102_drv.h
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c
index aa3dc1a4d53d..be5c51d8f757 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c
@@ -770,6 +770,17 @@ restart:
if (!xfs_iflock_nowait(ip)) {
if (!(sync_mode & SYNC_WAIT))
goto out;
+
+ /*
+ * If we only have a single dirty inode in a cluster there is
+ * a fair chance that the AIL push may have pushed it into
+ * the buffer, but xfsbufd won't touch it until 30 seconds
+ * from now, and thus we will lock up here.
+ *
+ * Promote the inode buffer to the front of the delwri list
+ * and wake up xfsbufd now.
+ */
+ xfs_promote_inode(ip);
xfs_iflock(ip);
}