1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c
index aa3dc1a4d53d..be5c51d8f757 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c
@@ -770,6 +770,17 @@ restart:
         if (!xfs_iflock_nowait(ip)) {
                 if (!(sync_mode & SYNC_WAIT))
                         goto out;
+
+                /*
+                 * If we only have a single dirty inode in a cluster there is
+                 * a fair chance that the AIL push may have pushed it into
+                 * the buffer, but xfsbufd won't touch it until 30 seconds
+                 * from now, and thus we will lock up here.
+                 *
+                 * Promote the inode buffer to the front of the delwri list
+                 * and wake up xfsbufd now.
+                 */
+                xfs_promote_inode(ip);
                 xfs_iflock(ip);
         }