diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index f9d9f54..1d78180 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -281,12 +281,13 @@
  * effectively curb the growth of dirty pages. Light dirtiers with high enough
  * dirty threshold may never get throttled.
  */
+#define TASK_LIMIT_FRACTION 8
 static unsigned long task_dirty_limit(struct task_struct *tsk,
 				       unsigned long bdi_dirty)
 {
 	long numerator, denominator;
 	unsigned long dirty = bdi_dirty;
-	u64 inv = dirty >> 3;
+	u64 inv = dirty / TASK_LIMIT_FRACTION;
 
 	task_dirties_fraction(tsk, &numerator, &denominator);
 	inv *= numerator;
@@ -297,6 +298,12 @@
 	return max(dirty, bdi_dirty/2);
 }
 
+/* Minimum limit for any task */
+static unsigned long task_min_dirty_limit(unsigned long bdi_dirty)
+{
+	return bdi_dirty - bdi_dirty / TASK_LIMIT_FRACTION;
+}
+
 /*
  *
  */
@@ -651,9 +658,12 @@
 	unsigned long background_thresh;
 	unsigned long dirty_thresh;
 	unsigned long bdi_thresh;
+	unsigned long task_bdi_thresh;
+	unsigned long min_task_bdi_thresh;
 	unsigned long pages_written = 0;
 	unsigned long pause = 1;
 	bool dirty_exceeded = false;
+	bool clear_dirty_exceeded = true;
 	struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
 	unsigned long start_time = jiffies;
 
@@ -673,7 +683,8 @@
 			break;
 
 		bdi_thresh = bdi_dirty_limit(bdi, dirty_thresh);
-		bdi_thresh = task_dirty_limit(current, bdi_thresh);
+		min_task_bdi_thresh = task_min_dirty_limit(bdi_thresh);
+		task_bdi_thresh = task_dirty_limit(current, bdi_thresh);
 
 		/*
 		 * In order to avoid the stacked BDI deadlock we need
@@ -685,7 +696,7 @@
 		 * actually dirty; with m+n sitting in the percpu
 		 * deltas.
 		 */
-		if (bdi_thresh < 2*bdi_stat_error(bdi)) {
+		if (task_bdi_thresh < 2 * bdi_stat_error(bdi)) {
 			bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
 			bdi_dirty = bdi_nr_reclaimable +
 				    bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK);
@@ -701,8 +712,10 @@
 		 * bdi or process from holding back light ones; The latter is
 		 * the last resort safeguard.
 		 */
-		dirty_exceeded = (bdi_dirty > bdi_thresh) ||
+		dirty_exceeded = (bdi_dirty > task_bdi_thresh) ||
 				  (nr_dirty > dirty_thresh);
+		clear_dirty_exceeded = (bdi_dirty <= min_task_bdi_thresh) &&
+					(nr_dirty <= dirty_thresh);
 
 		if (!dirty_exceeded)
 			break;
@@ -723,7 +736,7 @@
 		 * up.
 		 */
 		trace_balance_dirty_start(bdi);
-		if (bdi_nr_reclaimable > bdi_thresh) {
+		if (bdi_nr_reclaimable > task_bdi_thresh) {
 			pages_written += writeback_inodes_wb(&bdi->wb,
 							     write_chunk);
 			trace_balance_dirty_written(bdi, pages_written);
@@ -766,7 +779,8 @@
 			pause = HZ / 10;
 	}
 
-	if (!dirty_exceeded && bdi->dirty_exceeded)
+	/* Clear dirty_exceeded flag only when no task can exceed the limit */
+	if (clear_dirty_exceeded && bdi->dirty_exceeded)
 		bdi->dirty_exceeded = 0;
 
 	if (writeback_in_progress(bdi))