From a2f4870697a5bcf4a87073ec6b32dd2928c1211d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:23:19 -0400 Subject: fs: make sure the timestamps for lazytime inodes eventually get written Jan Kara pointed out that if there is an inode which is constantly getting dirtied with I_DIRTY_PAGES, an inode with an updated timestamp will never be written since inode->dirtied_when is constantly getting updated. We fix this by adding an extra field to the inode, dirtied_time_when, so inodes with a stale dirtytime can get detected and handled. In addition, if we have a dirtytime inode caused by an atime update, and there is no write activity on the file system, we need to have a secondary system to make sure these inodes get written out. We do this by setting up a second delayed work structure which wakes up the CPU much more rarely compared to writeback_expire_centisecs. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Reviewed-by: Jan Kara --- include/linux/fs.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index b4d71b5e1ff2..f4131e8ead74 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -604,6 +604,7 @@ struct inode { struct mutex i_mutex; unsigned long dirtied_when; /* jiffies of first dirtying */ + unsigned long dirtied_time_when; struct hlist_node i_hash; struct list_head i_wb_list; /* backing dev IO list */ -- cgit v1.2.3