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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);
 	}