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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);
}