[PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 22/90] writeback: add missing INITIAL_JIFFIES init in global_update_bandwidth()

[Kamal Mostafa]

3.13.11-ckt20 -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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal 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 145044b..890eccc 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -943,7 +943,7 @@ 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
-- 
1.9.1