Hi Jaegeuk, > -----Original Message----- > From: Jaegeuk Kim [mailto:jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 3:49 AM > To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > linux-f2fs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: Jaegeuk Kim > Subject: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH 08/13] f2fs: do checkpoint at f2fs_put_super > > The generic_shutdown_super calls sync_filesystem, evict_inode, and then > f2fs_put_super. In f2fs_evict_inode, we remain some dirty inode information > so we should release them at f2fs_put_super. > > But normally, it's more reasonable to set its superblock as dirty when > evict_inode is called. After applying this patch, when we mount and then umount f2fs image without modification, we will write checkpoint in f2fs_put_super even though we have no more dirty data to sync, it's not needed. "some dirty inode information" you mentioned is inode information in ->ino_root of sbi, right? Regards, Yu > > Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/f2fs/inode.c | 1 + > fs/f2fs/super.c | 2 +- > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/inode.c b/fs/f2fs/inode.c > index 2c39999..eeaf5aa 100644 > --- a/fs/f2fs/inode.c > +++ b/fs/f2fs/inode.c > @@ -303,6 +303,7 @@ no_delete: > add_dirty_inode(sbi, inode->i_ino, APPEND_INO); > if (is_inode_flag_set(F2FS_I(inode), FI_UPDATE_WRITE)) > add_dirty_inode(sbi, inode->i_ino, UPDATE_INO); > + F2FS_SET_SB_DIRT(sbi); > out_clear: > clear_inode(inode); > } > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/super.c b/fs/f2fs/super.c > index 633315a..60e3554 100644 > --- a/fs/f2fs/super.c > +++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c > @@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ static void f2fs_put_super(struct super_block *sb) > stop_gc_thread(sbi); > > /* We don't need to do checkpoint when it's clean */ > - if (sbi->s_dirty && get_pages(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_NODES)) > + if (sbi->s_dirty) > write_checkpoint(sbi, true); > > iput(sbi->node_inode); > -- > 1.8.5.2 (Apple Git-48) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Linux-f2fs-devel mailing list > Linux-f2fs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-f2fs-devel -- 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