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writeback: add missing INITIAL_JIFFIES init in global_update_bandwidth()

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commit 7d70e15480 upstream.

global_update_bandwidth() uses static variable update_time as the
timestamp for the last update but forgets to initialize it to
INITIALIZE_JIFFIES.

This means that global_dirty_limit will be 5 mins into the future on
32bit and some large amount jiffies into the past on 64bit.  This
isn't critical as the only effect is that global_dirty_limit won't be
updated for the first 5 mins after booting on 32bit machines,
especially given the auxiliary nature of global_dirty_limit's role -
protecting against global dirty threshold's sudden dips; however, it
does lead to unintended suboptimal behavior.  Fix it.

Fixes: c42843f2f0 ("writeback: introduce smoothed global dirty limit")
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Tejun Heo
2015-03-04 10:37:43 -05:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent dfb06c8557
commit f16678367d
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@@ -858,7 +858,7 @@ static void global_update_bandwidth(unsigned long thresh,
unsigned long now)
{
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dirty_lock);
static unsigned long update_time;
static unsigned long update_time = INITIAL_JIFFIES;
/*
* check locklessly first to optimize away locking for the most time