[PATCH 06/32] GFS2: Make ->write_inode() really write

From: Steven Whitehouse
Date: Thu May 19 2011 - 05:16:51 EST


The GFS2 ->write_inode function should be more aggressive at writing
back to the filesystem. This adopts the XFS system of returning
-EAGAIN when the writeback has not been completely done. Also, we
now kick off in-place writeback when called with WB_SYNC_NONE,
but we only wait for it and flush the log when WB_SYNC_ALL is
requested.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/super.c b/fs/gfs2/super.c
index b9f28e6..d827b93 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/super.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/super.c
@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ void gfs2_unfreeze_fs(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp)
/**
* gfs2_write_inode - Make sure the inode is stable on the disk
* @inode: The inode
- * @sync: synchronous write flag
+ * @wbc: The writeback control structure
*
* Returns: errno
*/
@@ -713,15 +713,16 @@ static int gfs2_write_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
{
struct gfs2_inode *ip = GFS2_I(inode);
struct gfs2_sbd *sdp = GFS2_SB(inode);
+ struct address_space *metamapping = gfs2_glock2aspace(ip->i_gl);
struct gfs2_holder gh;
struct buffer_head *bh;
struct timespec atime;
struct gfs2_dinode *di;
- int ret = 0;
+ int ret = -EAGAIN;

- /* Check this is a "normal" inode, etc */
+ /* Skip timestamp update, if this is from a memalloc */
if (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)
- return 0;
+ goto do_flush;
ret = gfs2_glock_nq_init(ip->i_gl, LM_ST_EXCLUSIVE, 0, &gh);
if (ret)
goto do_flush;
@@ -745,6 +746,11 @@ do_unlock:
do_flush:
if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL)
gfs2_log_flush(GFS2_SB(inode), ip->i_gl);
+ filemap_fdatawrite(metamapping);
+ if (!ret && (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL))
+ ret = filemap_fdatawait(metamapping);
+ if (ret)
+ mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
return ret;
}

@@ -874,8 +880,9 @@ restart:

static int gfs2_sync_fs(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
{
- if (wait && sb->s_fs_info)
- gfs2_log_flush(sb->s_fs_info, NULL);
+ struct gfs2_sbd *sdp = sb->s_fs_info;
+ if (wait && sdp)
+ gfs2_log_flush(sdp, NULL);
return 0;
}

--
1.7.4

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