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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/backing-dev.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c index cb7c5e323814..b65fe93ad612 100644 --- a/mm/backing-dev.c +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c @@ -475,8 +475,17 @@ void bdi_destroy(struct backing_dev_info *bdi) int i; /* - * Splice our entries to the default_backing_dev_info, if this - * bdi disappears + * Splice our entries to the default_backing_dev_info. This + * condition shouldn't happen. @wb must be empty at this point and + * dirty inodes on it might cause other issues. This workaround is + * added by ce5f8e779519 ("writeback: splice dirty inode entries to + * default bdi on bdi_destroy()") without root-causing the issue. + * + * http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1253038617-30204-11-git-send-email-jens.axboe@oracle.com + * http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/35341/focus=35350 + * + * We should probably add WARN_ON() to find out whether it still + * happens and track it down if so. */ if (bdi_has_dirty_io(bdi)) { struct bdi_writeback *dst = &default_backing_dev_info.wb; |