From a5faeaf9109578e65e1a32e2a3e76c8b47e7dcb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:04:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] writeback: Fix periodic writeback after fs mount 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 CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # >= 3.0 Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- Reading git-format-patch failed