[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 084/144] writeback: add missing INITIAL_JIFFIES init in global_update_bandwidth()
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Apr 21 15:31:09 UTC 2015
3.16.7-ckt10 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
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 at kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu at intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe at fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
mm/page-writeback.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index dfe512e911c8..001d86441639 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -925,7 +925,7 @@ static void global_update_bandwidth(unsigned long thresh,
unsigned long now)
{
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dirty_lock);
- static unsigned long update_time;
+ static unsigned long update_time = INITIAL_JIFFIES;
/*
* check locklessly first to optimize away locking for the most time
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