Re: linux-next: manual merge of the vfs tree with the ext3 tree

From: Jan Kara
Date: Mon Jul 18 2011 - 15:32:55 EST


Hi,

On Mon 18-07-11 13:36:45, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Today's linux-next merge of the vfs tree got a conflict in
> fs/ext3/fsync.c between commit 785c4bcc0d88 ("ext3: Add fixed
> tracepoints") from the ext3 tree and commit 62ec115d5b9c ("fs: push
> i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlers") from
> the vfs tree.
>
> I fixed it up (see below) but am not sure of the ordering of these two
> separate changes.
Thanks. Logically, I'd expect trace_ext3_sync_file_enter() to be always
called at the beginning of ext3_sync_file(). That means before
filemap_write_and_wait_range()... I guess the easiest way to resolve this
is if Al pulls the tracepoint patch from my tree to his - it's commit
785c4bcc0d88ff006a0b2120815a71e86ecf21ce in
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6

Honza

> diff --cc fs/ext3/fsync.c
> index 06a4394,0bcf63a..0000000
> --- a/fs/ext3/fsync.c
> +++ b/fs/ext3/fsync.c
> @@@ -52,14 -51,22 +52,24 @@@ int ext3_sync_file(struct file *file, l
> int ret, needs_barrier = 0;
> tid_t commit_tid;
>
> - if (inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)
> - return 0;
> -
> + ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(inode->i_mapping, start, end);
> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
> +
> + /*
> + * Taking the mutex here just to keep consistent with how fsync was
> + * called previously, however it looks like we don't need to take
> + * i_mutex at all.
> + */
> + mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
> +
> J_ASSERT(ext3_journal_current_handle() == NULL);
>
> + trace_ext3_sync_file_enter(file, datasync);
> +
> + if (inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)
> + return 0;
> +
> -
> /*
> * data=writeback,ordered:
> * The caller's filemap_fdatawrite()/wait will sync the data.
> @@@ -75,8 -82,8 +85,9 @@@
> * safe in-journal, which is all fsync() needs to ensure.
> */
> if (ext3_should_journal_data(inode)) {
> + mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
> - return ext3_force_commit(inode->i_sb);
> + ret = ext3_force_commit(inode->i_sb);
> + goto out;
> }
>
> if (datasync)
> @@@ -97,8 -104,6 +108,9 @@@
> */
> if (needs_barrier)
> blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
> + mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
> +
> +out:
> + trace_ext3_sync_file_exit(inode, ret);
> return ret;
> }
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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