On Wed, 19 May 2010 01:24:23 +0900 (JST), Ryusuke Konishi wrote: > Please consider commit 973bec34bfc1bc2465646181653d67f767d418c8 for > inclusion in 2.6.33.y and 2.6.32.y. > > Here is the commit message. It fixes a grave regression since 2.6.32, > which makes "sync" operation nonfunctional, and leading to unexpected > user's data loss. > > I have tested the patch, and confirmed that it restores the function > of "sync" for both 2.6.33.y and 2.6.32.y. Unfortunetaly, the patch > didn't apply to 2.6.32.y as is (3-way merge was required). > > To make sure, I will later post an adjusted patch against 2.6.32.y. Here is the patch for 2.6.32.y. Thanks, Ryusuke Konishi -- From: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 21:00:48 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] nilfs2: fix sync silent failure 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> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- 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 644e667..63e7b10 100644 --- a/fs/nilfs2/super.c +++ b/fs/nilfs2/super.c @@ -781,6 +781,7 @@ 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; if (!nilfs_loaded(nilfs)) { err = load_nilfs(nilfs, sbi); -- 1.5.6.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html