From: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk> This reverts commit 860473714cbe7fbedcf92bfe3eb6d69fae8c74ff. That has an incorrect upstream commit reference, and was modified in a way that conflicts with some older fixes. We can cleanly cherry-pick the upstream commit *after* those fixes. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 8 -------- 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c index 033f1b632b88..ccb8f23b9012 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c @@ -4090,14 +4090,6 @@ static int extent_write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping, */ scanned = 1; index = 0; - - /* - * If we're looping we could run into a page that is locked by a - * writer and that writer could be waiting on writeback for a - * page in our current bio, and thus deadlock, so flush the - * write bio here. - */ - flush_write_bio(epd); goto retry; } -- 2.25.1