From d85d6b0df93c08f43c07a16499856ede602d03e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 15:08:46 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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: e3d2e8c1185b6 ("dax: add support for fsync/sync") Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/dax.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c index 2a6889b3585f0..9187f3b07f3e7 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); -- 2.39.5