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-rw-r--r--mm/backing-dev.c13
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index cb7c5e323814..b65fe93ad612 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -475,8 +475,17 @@ void bdi_destroy(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
int i;
/*
- * Splice our entries to the default_backing_dev_info, if this
- * bdi disappears
+ * Splice our entries to the default_backing_dev_info. This
+ * condition shouldn't happen. @wb must be empty at this point and
+ * dirty inodes on it might cause other issues. This workaround is
+ * added by ce5f8e779519 ("writeback: splice dirty inode entries to
+ * default bdi on bdi_destroy()") without root-causing the issue.
+ *
+ * http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1253038617-30204-11-git-send-email-jens.axboe@oracle.com
+ * http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/35341/focus=35350
+ *
+ * We should probably add WARN_ON() to find out whether it still
+ * happens and track it down if so.
*/
if (bdi_has_dirty_io(bdi)) {
struct bdi_writeback *dst = &default_backing_dev_info.wb;