linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] afs: Fix writeback

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Message-ID: <923156.1687182529@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Mon, 19 Jun 2023 14:48:49 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>,
        linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] afs: Fix writeback

Hi Linus,

Could you apply these fixes to AFS writeback code from Vishal?

 (1) Release the acquired batch before returning if we got >=5 skips.

 (2) Retry a page we had to wait for rather than skipping over it after the
     wait.

Thanks,
David
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The following changes since commit 45a3e24f65e90a047bef86f927ebdc4c710edaa1:

  Linux 6.4-rc7 (2023-06-18 14:06:27 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git tags/afs-fixes-20230719

for you to fetch changes up to 819da022dd007398d0c42ebcd8dbb1b681acea53:

  afs: Fix waiting for writeback then skipping folio (2023-06-19 14:30:58 +0100)

----------------------------------------------------------------
AFS fixes

----------------------------------------------------------------
Vishal Moola (Oracle) (2):
      afs: Fix dangling folio ref counts in writeback
      afs: Fix waiting for writeback then skipping folio

 fs/afs/write.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)