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fs/dax.c: fix inefficiency in dax_writeback_mapping_range()
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Fri, 23 Jun 2017 22:08:46 +0000 (15:08 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 11:02:45 +0000 (13:02 +0200)
commit5f83a744143d999dc89bd30277a4bc673a7dbb0d
treef93091b16fcf426f4db82e8b51a4b0e728da9d2d
parent909c25623aca614a9074ddc7bd8433447f39bcf6
fs/dax.c: fix inefficiency in dax_writeback_mapping_range()

commit 1eb643d02b21412e603b42cdd96010a2ac31c05f upstream.

dax_writeback_mapping_range() fails to update iteration index when
searching radix tree for entries needing cache flushing.  Thus each
pagevec worth of entries is searched starting from the start which is
inefficient and prone to livelocks.  Update index properly.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170619124531.21491-1-jack@suse.cz
Fixes: 9973c98ecfda3 ("dax: add support for fsync/sync")
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/dax.c