The patch titled jbd: don't abort if flushing file data failed has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is jbd-dont-abort-if-flushing-file-data-failed.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: jbd: don't abort if flushing file data failed From: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@xxxxxxxxxxx> In ordered mode, the current jbd aborts the journal if a file data buffer has an error. But this behavior is unintended, and we found that it has been adopted accidentally. This patch undoes it and just calls printk() instead of aborting the journal. Additionally, set AS_EIO into the address_space object of the failed buffer which is submitted by journal_do_submit_data() so that fsync() can get -EIO. Missing error checkings are also added to inform errors on file data buffers to the user. The following buffers are targeted. (a) the buffer which has already been written out by pdflush (b) the buffer which has been unlocked before scanned in the t_locked_list loop Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: <linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/jbd/commit.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/jbd/commit.c~jbd-dont-abort-if-flushing-file-data-failed fs/jbd/commit.c --- a/fs/jbd/commit.c~jbd-dont-abort-if-flushing-file-data-failed +++ a/fs/jbd/commit.c @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ static void journal_do_submit_data(struc /* * Submit all the data buffers to disk */ -static void journal_submit_data_buffers(journal_t *journal, +static int journal_submit_data_buffers(journal_t *journal, transaction_t *commit_transaction) { struct journal_head *jh; @@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ static void journal_submit_data_buffers( int locked; int bufs = 0; struct buffer_head **wbuf = journal->j_wbuf; + int err = 0; /* * Whenever we unlock the journal and sleep, things can get added @@ -266,6 +267,8 @@ write_out_data: put_bh(bh); } else { BUFFER_TRACE(bh, "writeout complete: unfile"); + if (unlikely(!buffer_uptodate(bh))) + err = -EIO; __journal_unfile_buffer(jh); jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh); if (locked) @@ -284,6 +287,8 @@ write_out_data: } spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock); journal_do_submit_data(wbuf, bufs); + + return err; } /* @@ -423,8 +428,7 @@ void journal_commit_transaction(journal_ * Now start flushing things to disk, in the order they appear * on the transaction lists. Data blocks go first. */ - err = 0; - journal_submit_data_buffers(journal, commit_transaction); + err = journal_submit_data_buffers(journal, commit_transaction); /* * Wait for all previously submitted IO to complete. @@ -439,10 +443,21 @@ void journal_commit_transaction(journal_ if (buffer_locked(bh)) { spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock); wait_on_buffer(bh); - if (unlikely(!buffer_uptodate(bh))) - err = -EIO; spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock); } + if (unlikely(!buffer_uptodate(bh))) { + if (TestSetPageLocked(bh->b_page)) { + spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock); + lock_page(bh->b_page); + spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock); + } + if (bh->b_page->mapping) + set_bit(AS_EIO, &bh->b_page->mapping->flags); + + unlock_page(bh->b_page); + SetPageError(bh->b_page); + err = -EIO; + } if (!inverted_lock(journal, bh)) { put_bh(bh); spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock); @@ -461,8 +476,14 @@ void journal_commit_transaction(journal_ } spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock); - if (err) - journal_abort(journal, err); + if (err) { + char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE]; + + printk(KERN_WARNING + "JBD: Detected IO errors during flushing file data " + "on %s\n", bdevname(journal->j_fs_dev, b)); + err = 0; + } journal_write_revoke_records(journal, commit_transaction); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hidehiro.kawai.ez@xxxxxxxxxxx are ext3-dont-read-inode-block-if-the-buffer-has-a-write-error.patch jbd-dont-abort-if-flushing-file-data-failed.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html