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    writeback: introduce .tagged_writepages for the WB_SYNC_NONE sync stage · 6e6938b6
    Wu Fengguang authored
    sync(2) is performed in two stages: the WB_SYNC_NONE sync and the
    WB_SYNC_ALL sync. Identify the first stage with .tagged_writepages and
    do livelock prevention for it, too.
    
    Jan's commit f446daae ("mm: implement writeback livelock avoidance
    using page tagging") is a partial fix in that it only fixed the
    WB_SYNC_ALL phase livelock.
    
    Although ext4 is tested to no longer livelock with commit f446daae,
    it may due to some "redirty_tail() after pages_skipped" effect which
    is by no means a guarantee for _all_ the file systems.
    
    Note that writeback_inodes_sb() is called by not only sync(), they are
    treated the same because the other callers also need livelock prevention.
    
    Impact:  It changes the order in which pages/inodes are synced to disk.
    Now in the WB_SYNC_NONE stage, it won't proceed to write the next inode
    until finished with the current inode.
    Acked-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
    6e6938b6
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