Re: [PATCH v2 04/17] ext2: don't test/clear AS_EIO flag

From: Jan Kara
Date: Wed Apr 12 2017 - 08:29:34 EST


On Wed 12-04-17 08:06:01, Jeff Layton wrote:
> ext2 does a test+clear of AS_EIO flag. With the new error reporting
> infrastructure, we don't need to clear anything. Sample the file's
> current error code, and after writeback just report whether any
> errors have been seen since then.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/ext2/file.c | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext2/file.c b/fs/ext2/file.c
> index b21891a6bfca..0ca77d337c94 100644
> --- a/fs/ext2/file.c
> +++ b/fs/ext2/file.c
> @@ -177,7 +177,12 @@ int ext2_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
> struct address_space *mapping = sb->s_bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping;
>
> ret = generic_file_fsync(file, start, end, datasync);
> - if (ret == -EIO || test_and_clear_bit(AS_EIO, &mapping->flags)) {
> + if (ret == -EIO)
> + ret = -EIO;
> + else
> + ret = filemap_check_errors(mapping);
> +

IMO making __generic_file_fsync() perform the filemap_check_errors() after
sync_mapping_buffers() is better and deals with all filesystem using
generic_file_fsync(). Then we can just remove the AS_EIO check here.

Honza

> + if (ret) {
> /* We don't really know where the IO error happened... */
> ext2_error(sb, __func__,
> "detected IO error when writing metadata buffers");
> --
> 2.9.3
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR