Commit d153ba64 authored by Wu Fengguang's avatar Wu Fengguang Committed by Linus Torvalds

writeback: do uninterruptible sleep in balance_dirty_pages()

Using TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE in balance_dirty_pages() seems wrong.  If it's
going to do that then it must break out if signal_pending(), otherwise
it's pretty much guaranteed to degenerate into a busywait loop.  Plus we
*do* want these processes to appear in D state and to contribute to load
average.

So it should be TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE.                 -- Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: default avatarWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent f06328d7
......@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
break; /* We've done our duty */
}
trace_wbc_balance_dirty_wait(&wbc, bdi);
__set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
__set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
io_schedule_timeout(pause);
/*
......
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