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> Von: "Liu Song" <[email protected]>
> An: "richard" <[email protected]>, "Artem Bityutskiy" <[email protected]>, 
> "Adrian Hunter" <[email protected]>
> CC: "linux-mtd" <[email protected]>, "linux-kernel" 
> <[email protected]>, "liu song11"
> <[email protected]>
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. August 2019 16:21:40
> Betreff: [PATCH] ubifs: limit the number of pages in shrink_liability

> From: Liu Song <[email protected]>
> 
> If the number of dirty pages to be written back is large,
> then writeback_inodes_sb will block waiting for a long time,
> causing hung task detection alarm. Therefore, we should limit
> the maximum number of pages written back this time, which let
> the budget be completed faster. The remaining dirty pages
> tend to rely on the writeback mechanism to complete the
> synchronization.

On which kind of system do you hit this?
Your fix makes sense but I'd like to have more background information.

UBIFS acts that way for almost a decade, see:
b6e51316daed ("writeback: separate starting of sync vs opportunistic writeback")

Thanks,
//richard

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