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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2017-06-24 00:08:46 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-06-24 01:15:55 +0200
commit1eb643d02b21412e603b42cdd96010a2ac31c05f (patch)
treeaa77fd98679a5916f1dbc620d389f6d4146ff71e /fs/dax.c
parentautofs: sanity check status reported with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_FAIL (diff)
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fs/dax.c: fix inefficiency in dax_writeback_mapping_range()
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> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index 2a6889b3585f..9187f3b07f3e 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -859,6 +859,7 @@ int dax_writeback_mapping_range(struct address_space *mapping,
if (ret < 0)
goto out;
}
+ start_index = indices[pvec.nr - 1] + 1;
}
out:
put_dax(dax_dev);