Re: [PATCH v2] iomap: fsync swap files before iterating mappings

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On Tue 05-06-18 09:33:04, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Swap files require that all the file mapping metadata be stable on disk.
> It is insufficient to flush dirty pages in the page cache because that
> won't necessarily result in filesystems pushing all their metadata out
> to disk.  Therefore, call fsync from iomap_swapfile_activate.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>

Makes sense and the patch looks good to me. You can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

								Honza

> ---
> v2: fdatasync semantics, per hch feedback
> ---
>  fs/iomap.c |    6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/iomap.c b/fs/iomap.c
> index 206539d369a8..2bd04f0451f2 100644
> --- a/fs/iomap.c
> +++ b/fs/iomap.c
> @@ -1387,7 +1387,11 @@ int iomap_swapfile_activate(struct swap_info_struct *sis,
>  	loff_t len = ALIGN_DOWN(i_size_read(inode), PAGE_SIZE);
>  	loff_t ret;
>  
> -	ret = filemap_write_and_wait(inode->i_mapping);
> +	/*
> +	 * Persist all file mapping metadata so that we won't have any
> +	 * IOMAP_F_DIRTY iomaps.
> +	 */
> +	ret = vfs_fsync(swap_file, 1);
>  	if (ret)
>  		return ret;
>  
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR



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