linux-kernel - [44/53] xfs: fix xfs_mark_inode

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Date:	Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:23:51 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, xfs@....sgi.com,
	Alex Elder <aelder@....com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: [44/53] xfs: fix xfs_mark_inode_dirty during umount

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>

commit 866e4ed77448a0c311e1b055eb72ea05423fd799 upstream.

During umount we do not add a dirty inode to the lru and wait for it to
become clean first, but force writeback of data and metadata with
I_WILL_FREE set.  Currently there is no way for XFS to detect that the
inode has been redirtied for metadata operations, as we skip the
mark_inode_dirty call during teardown.  Fix this by setting i_update_core
nanually in that case, so that the inode gets flushed during inode reclaim.

Alternatively we could enable calling mark_inode_dirty for inodes in
I_WILL_FREE state, and let the VFS dirty tracking handle this.  I decided
against this as we will get better I/O patterns from reclaim compared to
the synchronous writeout in write_inode_now, and always marking the inode
dirty in some way from xfs_mark_inode_dirty is a better safetly net in
either case.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@....com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
---
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c |   14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c
@@ -69,9 +69,8 @@ xfs_synchronize_times(
 }

 /*
- * If the linux inode is valid, mark it dirty.
- * Used when committing a dirty inode into a transaction so that
- * the inode will get written back by the linux code
+ * If the linux inode is valid, mark it dirty, else mark the dirty state
+ * in the XFS inode to make sure we pick it up when reclaiming the inode.
  */
 void
 xfs_mark_inode_dirty_sync(
@@ -81,6 +80,10 @@ xfs_mark_inode_dirty_sync(

 	if (!(inode->i_state & (I_WILL_FREE|I_FREEING)))
 		mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
+	else {
+		barrier();
+		ip->i_update_core = 1;
+	}
 }

 void
@@ -91,6 +94,11 @@ xfs_mark_inode_dirty(

 	if (!(inode->i_state & (I_WILL_FREE|I_FREEING)))
 		mark_inode_dirty(inode);
+	else {
+		barrier();
+		ip->i_update_core = 1;
+	}
+
 }

 /*

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