This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
bcache: Advertise that flushes are supported
to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
bcache-advertise-that-flushes-are-supported.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 54d12f2b4fd0f218590d1490b41a18d0e2328a9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kent Overstreet <kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:44:40 -0700
Subject: bcache: Advertise that flushes are supported
From: Kent Overstreet <kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 54d12f2b4fd0f218590d1490b41a18d0e2328a9a upstream.
Whoops - bcache's flush/FUA was mostly correct, but flushes get filtered
out unless we say we support them...
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/bcache/request.c | 8 +++++++-
drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/request.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/request.c
@@ -489,6 +489,12 @@ static void bch_insert_data_loop(struct
bch_queue_gc(op->c);
}
+ /*
+ * Journal writes are marked REQ_FLUSH; if the original write was a
+ * flush, it'll wait on the journal write.
+ */
+ bio->bi_rw &= ~(REQ_FLUSH|REQ_FUA);
+
do {
unsigned i;
struct bkey *k;
@@ -716,7 +722,7 @@ static struct search *search_alloc(struc
s->task = current;
s->orig_bio = bio;
s->write = (bio->bi_rw & REQ_WRITE) != 0;
- s->op.flush_journal = (bio->bi_rw & REQ_FLUSH) != 0;
+ s->op.flush_journal = (bio->bi_rw & (REQ_FLUSH|REQ_FUA)) != 0;
s->op.skip = (bio->bi_rw & REQ_DISCARD) != 0;
s->recoverable = 1;
s->start_time = jiffies;
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
@@ -781,6 +781,8 @@ static int bcache_device_init(struct bca
set_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT, &d->disk->queue->queue_flags);
set_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD, &d->disk->queue->queue_flags);
+ blk_queue_flush(q, REQ_FLUSH|REQ_FUA);
+
return 0;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.10/bcache-fix-a-dumb-race.patch
queue-3.10/bcache-advertise-that-flushes-are-supported.patch
queue-3.10/bcache-fix-gc_sectors_used-calculation.patch
queue-3.10/bcache-shutdown-fix.patch
queue-3.10/bcache-journal-replay-fix.patch
queue-3.10/bcache-fix-a-sysfs-splat-on-shutdown.patch
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