1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index ab38fef1c9a1..9e46aec10d1a 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ static inline bool over_bground_thresh(void)
         global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh);
 
         return (global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
-                global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) >= background_thresh);
+                global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) > background_thresh);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -721,6 +721,10 @@ static long wb_check_old_data_flush(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
                 return 0;
 
         wb->last_old_flush = jiffies;
+        /*
+         * Add in the number of potentially dirty inodes, because each inode
+         * write can dirty pagecache in the underlying blockdev.
+         */
         nr_pages = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
                         global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS) +
                         (inodes_stat.nr_inodes - inodes_stat.nr_unused);
@@ -790,7 +794,7 @@ int bdi_writeback_thread(void *data)
         struct backing_dev_info *bdi = wb->bdi;
         long pages_written;
 
-        current->flags |= PF_FLUSHER | PF_SWAPWRITE;
+        current->flags |= PF_SWAPWRITE;
         set_freezable();
         wb->last_active = jiffies;