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-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c18
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index d8c21e5a1bc9..7845462064f4 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -502,16 +502,6 @@ void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
long background_thresh;
long dirty_thresh;
- if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) {
- /*
- * The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
- * or progress in the filesystem. So we cannot just sit here
- * waiting for IO to complete.
- */
- congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
- return;
- }
-
for ( ; ; ) {
get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, NULL, NULL);
@@ -525,6 +515,14 @@ void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) <= dirty_thresh)
break;
congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
+
+ /*
+ * The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
+ * or progress in the filesystem. So we cannot just sit here
+ * waiting for IO to complete.
+ */
+ if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO))
+ break;
}
}
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