From 1eb643d02b21412e603b42cdd96010a2ac31c05f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 15:08:46 -0700
Subject: 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: 9973c98ecfda3 ("dax: add support for fsync/sync")
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 fs/dax.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

(limited to 'fs/dax.c')

diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index 2a6889b3585f..9187f3b07f3e 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);
-- 
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