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| author | Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com> | 2011-04-11 04:05:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2011-04-11 04:05:31 +0200 |
| commit | 0893ed458b4b1d7c7667ca7ffb8b11febe7e7e6c (patch) | |
| tree | a9a4e226a6bfa7a13e0cad545280e5e8ce2a80b2 /fs/ext4/fsync.c | |
| parent | ext4: init timer earlier to avoid a kernel panic in __save_error_info (diff) | |
| download | linux-0893ed458b4b1d7c7667ca7ffb8b11febe7e7e6c.tar.xz linux-0893ed458b4b1d7c7667ca7ffb8b11febe7e7e6c.zip | |
ext4: sync the directory inode in ext4_sync_parent()
ext4 has taken the stance that, in the absence of a journal,
when an fsync/fdatasync of an inode is done, the parent
directory should be sync'ed if this inode entry is new.
ext4_sync_parent(), which implements this, does indeed sync
the dirent pages for parent directories, but it does not
sync the directory *inode*. This patch fixes this.
Also now return error status from ext4_sync_parent().
I tested this using a power fail test, which panics a
machine running a file server getting requests from a
client. Without this patch, on about every other test run,
the server is missing many, many files that had been synced.
With this patch, on > 6 runs, I see zero files being lost.
Google-Bug-Id: 4179519
Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to '')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/fsync.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/fsync.c b/fs/ext4/fsync.c index 7f74019d6d77..b1f9b5fc93eb 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/fsync.c +++ b/fs/ext4/fsync.c @@ -125,9 +125,11 @@ extern int ext4_flush_completed_IO(struct inode *inode) * the parent directory's parent as well, and so on recursively, if * they are also freshly created. */ -static void ext4_sync_parent(struct inode *inode) +static int ext4_sync_parent(struct inode *inode) { + struct writeback_control wbc; struct dentry *dentry = NULL; + int ret = 0; while (inode && ext4_test_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_NEWENTRY)) { ext4_clear_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_NEWENTRY); @@ -136,8 +138,17 @@ static void ext4_sync_parent(struct inode *inode) if (!dentry || !dentry->d_parent || !dentry->d_parent->d_inode) break; inode = dentry->d_parent->d_inode; - sync_mapping_buffers(inode->i_mapping); + ret = sync_mapping_buffers(inode->i_mapping); + if (ret) + break; + memset(&wbc, 0, sizeof(wbc)); + wbc.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL; + wbc.nr_to_write = 0; /* only write out the inode */ + ret = sync_inode(inode, &wbc); + if (ret) + break; } + return ret; } /* @@ -176,7 +187,7 @@ int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, int datasync) if (!journal) { ret = generic_file_fsync(file, datasync); if (!ret && !list_empty(&inode->i_dentry)) - ext4_sync_parent(inode); + ret = ext4_sync_parent(inode); goto out; } |