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writeback: add missing INITIAL_JIFFIES init in global_update_bandwidth()
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Wed, 4 Mar 2015 15:37:43 +0000 (10:37 -0500)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Wed, 22 Apr 2015 06:58:35 +0000 (08:58 +0200)
commit0d4958ffdbf7a14e58ea822968a40c05b3c9de0f
tree32d6634b978b212cf248542f6f7c7566373c2c62
parentf9212814b6925eaba8f089bcc110ba5aec1ef13d
writeback: add missing INITIAL_JIFFIES init in global_update_bandwidth()

commit 7d70e15480c0450d2bfafaad338a32e884fc215e upstream.

global_update_bandwidth() uses static variable update_time as the
timestamp for the last update but forgets to initialize it to
INITIALIZE_JIFFIES.

This means that global_dirty_limit will be 5 mins into the future on
32bit and some large amount jiffies into the past on 64bit.  This
isn't critical as the only effect is that global_dirty_limit won't be
updated for the first 5 mins after booting on 32bit machines,
especially given the auxiliary nature of global_dirty_limit's role -
protecting against global dirty threshold's sudden dips; however, it
does lead to unintended suboptimal behavior.  Fix it.

Fixes: c42843f2f0bb ("writeback: introduce smoothed global dirty limit")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
mm/page-writeback.c