[44/53] xfs: fix xfs_mark_inode_dirty during umount

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Nov 22 2011 - 19:42:14 EST


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

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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
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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