3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
commit ccb6108f5b0b541d3eb332c3a73e645c0f84278e upstream.
Vito said:
: The system has many usb disks coming and going day to day, with their
: respective bdi's having min_ratio set to 1 when inserted. It works for
: some time until eventually min_ratio can no longer be set, even when the
: active set of bdi's seen in /sys/class/bdi/*/min_ratio doesn't add up to
: anywhere near 100.
:
: This then leads to an unrelated starvation problem caused by write-heavy
: fuse mounts being used atop the usb disks, a problem the min_ratio setting
: at the underlying devices bdi effectively prevents.
Fix this leakage by resetting the bdi min_ratio when unregistering the
BDI.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Reported-by: Vito Caputo <l...@pengaru.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang...@intel.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mik...@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@suse.de>
---
mm/backing-dev.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -606,6 +606,7 @@ static void bdi_prune_sb(struct backing_
void bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
if (bdi->dev) {
+ bdi_set_min_ratio(bdi, 0);
trace_writeback_bdi_unregister(bdi);
bdi_prune_sb(bdi);
del_timer_sync(&bdi->wb.wakeup_timer);
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