From: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> We want to always cover the log after writing out the superblock, and in case of a synchronous writeout make sure we actually wait for the log to be covered. That way a filesystem that has been sync()ed can be considered clean by log recovery. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> Index: xfs/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c =================================================================== --- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c 2009-09-16 10:04:30.869278510 -0300 +++ xfs/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c 2009-09-16 10:04:41.193004640 -0300 @@ -309,11 +309,15 @@ xfs_sync_attr( STATIC int xfs_commit_dummy_trans( struct xfs_mount *mp, - uint log_flags) + uint flags) { struct xfs_inode *ip = mp->m_rootip; struct xfs_trans *tp; int error; + int log_flags = XFS_LOG_FORCE; + + if (flags & SYNC_WAIT) + log_flags |= XFS_LOG_SYNC; /* * Put a dummy transaction in the log to tell recovery @@ -331,16 +335,15 @@ xfs_commit_dummy_trans( xfs_trans_ijoin(tp, ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL); xfs_trans_ihold(tp, ip); xfs_trans_log_inode(tp, ip, XFS_ILOG_CORE); - /* XXX(hch): ignoring the error here.. */ error = xfs_trans_commit(tp, 0); - xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL); + /* the log force ensures this transaction is pushed to disk */ xfs_log_force(mp, 0, log_flags); - return 0; + return error; } -int +int xfs_sync_fsdata( struct xfs_mount *mp, int flags) @@ -385,7 +388,20 @@ xfs_sync_fsdata( else XFS_BUF_ASYNC(bp); - return xfs_bwrite(mp, bp); + error = xfs_bwrite(mp, bp); + if (error) + return error; + + /* + * If this is a data integrity sync make sure all pending buffers + * are flushed out for the log coverage check below. + */ + if (flags & SYNC_WAIT) + xfs_flush_buftarg(mp->m_ddev_targp, 1); + + if (xfs_log_need_covered(mp)) + error = xfs_commit_dummy_trans(mp, flags); + return error; out_brelse: xfs_buf_relse(bp); @@ -572,8 +588,6 @@ xfs_sync_worker( /* dgc: errors ignored here */ error = xfs_qm_sync(mp, SYNC_TRYLOCK); error = xfs_sync_fsdata(mp, SYNC_TRYLOCK); - if (xfs_log_need_covered(mp)) - error = xfs_commit_dummy_trans(mp, XFS_LOG_FORCE); } mp->m_sync_seq++; wake_up(&mp->m_wait_single_sync_task); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html