This is another fix for the silent sync failure related to sb->s_bdi. The commit 5129a469, which was merged to -rc6, let me know this problem. I'm sorry that I was late to realize this. Nilfs uses an own get_sb callback, and needed to set s_bdi for itself. I confirmed this patch made ->sync_fs() called as intended. I hope this is sent for 2.6.34. Please let me know if you have any comments. Thanks, Ryusuke Konishi --- From: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> As of 32a88aa1, __sync_filesystem() will return 0 if s_bdi is not set. And nilfs does not set s_bdi anywhere. I noticed this problem by the warning introduced by the recent commit 5129a469 ("Catch filesystem lacking s_bdi"). WARNING: at fs/super.c:959 vfs_kern_mount+0xc5/0x14e() Hardware name: PowerEdge 2850 Modules linked in: nilfs2 loop tpm_tis tpm tpm_bios video shpchp pci_hotplug output dcdbas Pid: 3773, comm: mount.nilfs2 Not tainted 2.6.34-rc6-debug #38 Call Trace: [<c1028422>] warn_slowpath_common+0x60/0x90 [<c102845f>] warn_slowpath_null+0xd/0x10 [<c1095936>] vfs_kern_mount+0xc5/0x14e [<c1095a03>] do_kern_mount+0x32/0xbd [<c10a811e>] do_mount+0x671/0x6d0 [<c1073794>] ? __get_free_pages+0x1f/0x21 [<c10a684f>] ? copy_mount_options+0x2b/0xe2 [<c107b634>] ? strndup_user+0x48/0x67 [<c10a81de>] sys_mount+0x61/0x8f [<c100280c>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x32 This ensures to set s_bdi for nilfs and fixes the sync silent failure. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nilfs2/super.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/super.c b/fs/nilfs2/super.c index 0cdbc5e..48145f5 100644 --- a/fs/nilfs2/super.c +++ b/fs/nilfs2/super.c @@ -749,6 +749,7 @@ nilfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent, sb->s_export_op = &nilfs_export_ops; sb->s_root = NULL; sb->s_time_gran = 1; + sb->s_bdi = nilfs->ns_bdi; err = load_nilfs(nilfs, sbi); if (err) -- 1.6.3.4 -- 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