Re: [PATCH v2] ext4: fix shared/002 and 004 fail issue in xfstests

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On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 10:54:29PM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> When mounting ext4 with data=journal option, xfstest shared/002 and
> shared/004 are currently failing as checksum computed for testfile
> does not match with the checksum computed in other journal modes.
> In case of data=journal mode, a call to filemap_write_and_wait_range
> will not flush anything to disk as buffers are not marked dirty in
> write_end. In collapse range this call is followed by a call to
> truncate_pagecache_range. Due to this, when checksum is computed,
> a portion of file is re-read from disk which replace valid data with
> NULL bytes and hence the reason for the difference in checksum.
> 
> Calling ext4_force_commit before filemap_write_and_wait_range solves
> the issue as it will mark the buffers dirty during commit transaction
> which can be later synced by a call to filemap_write_and_wait_range.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ashish Sangwan <a.sangwan@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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