nilfs2: add missing blkdev_issue_flush() to nilfs_sync_fs()

Under normal circumstances nilfs_sync_fs() writes out the super block,
which causes a flush of the underlying block device.  But this depends
on the THE_NILFS_SB_DIRTY flag, which is only set if the pointer to the
last segment crosses a segment boundary.  So if only a small amount of
data is written before the call to nilfs_sync_fs(), no flush of the
block device occurs.

In the above case an additional call to blkdev_issue_flush() is needed.
To prevent unnecessary overhead, the new flag nilfs->ns_flushed_device
is introduced, which is cleared whenever new logs are written and set
whenever the block device is flushed.  For convenience the function
nilfs_flush_device() is added, which contains the above logic.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Rohner <andreas.rohner@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.h b/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.h
index d01ead1bea9a..23778d385836 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.h
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.h
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ enum {
 /**
  * struct the_nilfs - struct to supervise multiple nilfs mount points
  * @ns_flags: flags
+ * @ns_flushed_device: flag indicating if all volatile data was flushed
  * @ns_bdev: block device
  * @ns_sem: semaphore for shared states
  * @ns_snapshot_mount_mutex: mutex to protect snapshot mounts
@@ -103,6 +104,7 @@ enum {
  */
 struct the_nilfs {
 	unsigned long		ns_flags;
+	int			ns_flushed_device;
 
 	struct block_device    *ns_bdev;
 	struct rw_semaphore	ns_sem;
@@ -371,4 +373,24 @@ static inline int nilfs_segment_is_active(struct the_nilfs *nilfs, __u64 n)
 	return n == nilfs->ns_segnum || n == nilfs->ns_nextnum;
 }
 
+static inline int nilfs_flush_device(struct the_nilfs *nilfs)
+{
+	int err;
+
+	if (!nilfs_test_opt(nilfs, BARRIER) || nilfs->ns_flushed_device)
+		return 0;
+
+	nilfs->ns_flushed_device = 1;
+	/*
+	 * the store to ns_flushed_device must not be reordered after
+	 * blkdev_issue_flush().
+	 */
+	smp_wmb();
+
+	err = blkdev_issue_flush(nilfs->ns_bdev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
+	if (err != -EIO)
+		err = 0;
+	return err;
+}
+
 #endif /* _THE_NILFS_H */