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mm: fix ratelimit_pages update error in dirty_ratio_handler()

Message ID 20250415083542.6946-1-alexjlzheng@tencent.com (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series mm: fix ratelimit_pages update error in dirty_ratio_handler() | expand

Commit Message

Jinliang Zheng April 15, 2025, 8:35 a.m. UTC 
From: Jinliang Zheng <alexjlzheng@tencent.com>

In the dirty_ratio_handler() function, vm_dirty_bytes must be set to
zero before calling writeback_set_ratelimit(), as global_dirty_limits()
always prioritizes the value of vm_dirty_bytes.

Fixes: 9d823e8f6b1b ("writeback: per task dirty rate limit")
Signed-off-by: Jinliang Zheng <alexjlzheng@tencent.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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 mm/page-writeback.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index c81624bc3969..20e1d76f1eba 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -520,8 +520,8 @@  static int dirty_ratio_handler(const struct ctl_table *table, int write, void *b
 
 	ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
 	if (ret == 0 && write && vm_dirty_ratio != old_ratio) {
-		writeback_set_ratelimit();
 		vm_dirty_bytes = 0;
+		writeback_set_ratelimit();
 	}
 	return ret;
 }