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Date:	Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:57:41 +0200
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...radead.org>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [BUGFIX] [PATCH] write-back: fix nr_to_write counter

Hi,

commit 05fe478dd04e02fa230c305ab9b5616669821dd3
Author: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Date:   Tue Jan 6 14:39:08 2009 -0800

    mm: write_cache_pages integrity fix

broke wbc->nr_to_write handling. Here is the fix.

I'm not 100% sure I got things right, because I am far not expert in the
area. Please, review it. The patch fixes my UBIFS issues, which are
caused by the fact that wbc->nr_to_write is not updated.
======================================================================

From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 18:33:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] write-back: fix nr_to_write counter

Commit 05fe478dd04e02fa230c305ab9b5616669821dd3 broke @wbc->nr_to_write.
'write_cache_pages()' changes it in the loop, but restores the original
value from @nr_to_write at the end, because of this code:

       if (!wbc->no_nrwrite_index_update) {
                if (wbc->range_cyclic || (range_whole && nr_to_write > 0))
                        mapping->writeback_index = done_index;
                wbc->nr_to_write = nr_to_write;
        }

Well, in case of @wbc->no_nrwrite_index_update != 0, we do change
wbc->nr_to_write, while we should not. This patch fixes this behavior.

Also, I think wbc->nr_to_write should be changed in all cases, not only
when wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE.

Also, I add a comment explaining why we do not stop writing back.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>
---
 mm/page-writeback.c |   21 +++++++++++++++------
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index b493db7..13a2b8e 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -1051,13 +1051,22 @@ continue_unlock:
 				}
  			}
 
-			if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) {
-				wbc->nr_to_write--;
-				if (wbc->nr_to_write <= 0) {
-					done = 1;
-					break;
-				}
+			if (nr_to_write > 0)
+				nr_to_write--;
+			else if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) {
+				/*
+				 * We stop writing back only if we are not
+				 * doing integrity sync. In case of integrity
+				 * sync we have to keep going because someone
+				 * may be concurrently dirtying pages, and we
+				 * might have synced a lot of newly appeared
+				 * dirty pages, bud have not synced all of the
+				 * old dirty pages.
+				 */
+				done = 1;
+				break;
 			}
+
 			if (wbc->nonblocking && bdi_write_congested(bdi)) {
 				wbc->encountered_congestion = 1;
 				done = 1;
-- 
1.6.0.6

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

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