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authorJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>2014-06-28 01:00:41 +0900
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-07-17 16:23:19 -0700
commit3c9979727fa77a3a08eae5938d1ac0e4568d5997 (patch)
treefc2ebaaf63acd3f98731214b421dd197e88683b9 /fs
parent43efa53d4ece1bee219320ce8451a5a211188375 (diff)
f2fs: check bdi->dirty_exceeded when trying to skip data writes
commit 2743f865543c0c4a5e12fc13edb2bf89a6e9687c upstream. If we don't check the current backing device status, balance_dirty_pages can fall into infinite pausing routine. This can be occurred when a lot of directories make a small number of dirty dentry pages including files. Reported-by: Brian Chadwick <brianchad@westnet.com.au> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/f2fs/node.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/node.c b/fs/f2fs/node.c
index a9c04950aff..5696bde9570 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/node.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/node.c
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ bool available_free_memory(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, int type)
mem_size = (nm_i->nat_cnt * sizeof(struct nat_entry)) >> 12;
res = mem_size < ((val.totalram * nm_i->ram_thresh / 100) >> 2);
} else if (type == DIRTY_DENTS) {
+ if (sbi->sb->s_bdi->dirty_exceeded)
+ return false;
mem_size = get_pages(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_DENTS);
res = mem_size < ((val.totalram * nm_i->ram_thresh / 100) >> 1);
}