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The following race can happen:
CPU1 CPU2
checkpointing code checks the buffer, adds
it to an array for writeback
do_get_write_access()
...
lock_buffer()
unlock_buffer()
flush_batch() submits the buffer for IO
__jbd_journal_file_buffer()
So a buffer under writeout is returned from do_get_write_access(). Since
the filesystem code relies on the fact that journaled buffers cannot be
written out, it does not take the buffer lock and so it can modify buffer
while it is under writeout. That can lead to a filesystem corruption
if we crash at the right moment. The similar problem can happen with
the journal_get_create_access() path.
We fix the problem by clearing the buffer dirty bit under buffer_lock
even if the buffer is on BJ_None list. Actually, we clear the dirty bit
regardless the list the buffer is in and warn about the fact if
the buffer is already journalled.
Thanks for spotting the problem goes to dingdinghua <dingdinghua85@gmail.com>.
Reported-by: dingdinghua <dingdinghua85@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Contents of long symlinks is written via standard write methods. So when the
write fails, we add inode to orphan list. But symlinks don't have .truncate
method defined so nobody properly removes them from the orphan list (both on
disk and in memory).
Fix this by calling ext3_truncate() directly instead of calling vmtruncate()
(which is saner anyway since we don't need anything vmtruncate() does except
from calling .truncate in these paths). We also add inode to orphan list only
if ext3_can_truncate() is true (currently, it can be false for symlinks when
there are no blocks allocated) - otherwise orphan list processing will complain
and ext3_truncate() will not remove inode from on-disk orphan list.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Due to on disk corruption, it can happen that journal is too short. Fail
to load it in such case so that we don't oops somewhere later.
Reported-by: Nageswara R Sastry <rnsastry@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing/function-profiler: do not free per cpu variable stat
tracing/events: Move TRACE_SYSTEM outside of include guard
Fix v9fs_vfs_readpage. The offset and size parameters to v9fs_file_readn
were interchanged and hence passed incorrectly.
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kulkarni <adkulkar@umail.iu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
In the tcp_connect_to_sock() error exit path, the socket
allocated at the top of the function was not being freed.
Signed-off-by: Casey Dahlin <cdahlin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
fs/Kconfig file was split into individual fs/*/Kconfig files before
nilfs was merged. I've found the current config entry of nilfs is
tainting the work. Sorry, I didn't notice. This fixes the violation.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
jbd2: fix race between write_metadata_buffer and get_write_access
ext4: Fix ext4_mb_initialize_context() to initialize all fields
ext4: fix null handler of ioctls in no journal mode
ext4: Fix buffer head reference leak in no-journal mode
ext4: Move __ext4_journalled_writepage() to avoid forward declaration
ext4: Fix mmap/truncate race when blocksize < pagesize && !nodellaoc
ext4: Fix mmap/truncate race when blocksize < pagesize && delayed allocation
ext4: Don't look at buffer_heads outside i_size.
ext4: Fix goal inum check in the inode allocator
ext4: fix no journal corruption with locale-gen
ext4: Calculate required journal credits for inserting an extent properly
ext4: Fix truncation of symlinks after failed write
jbd2: Fix a race between checkpointing code and journal_get_write_access()
ext4: Use rcu_barrier() on module unload.
ext4: naturally align struct ext4_allocation_request
ext4: mark several more functions in mballoc.c as noinline
ext4: Fix potential reclaim deadlock when truncating partial block
jbd2: Remove GFP_ATOMIC kmalloc from inside spinlock critical region
ext4: Fix type warning on 64-bit platforms in tracing events header
The function jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer() calls
jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh_in) too early; this could potentially allow
another thread to call get_write_access on the buffer head, modify the
data, and dirty it, and allowing the wrong data to be written into the
journal. Fortunately, if we lose this race, the only time this will
actually cause filesystem corruption is if there is a system crash or
other unclean shutdown of the system before the next commit can take
place.
Signed-off-by: dingdinghua <dingdinghua85@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Pavel Roskin pointed out that kmemcheck indicated that
ext4_mb_store_history() was accessing uninitialized values of
ac->ac_tail and ac->ac_buddy leading to garbage in the mballoc
history. Fix this by initializing the entire structure to all zeros
first.
Also, two fields were getting doubly initialized by the caller of
ext4_mb_initialize_context, so remove them for efficiency's sake.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
The EXT4_IOC_GROUP_ADD and EXT4_IOC_GROUP_EXTEND ioctls should not
flush the journal in no_journal mode. Otherwise, running resize2fs on
a mounted no_journal partition triggers the following error messages:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000014
IP: [<c039d282>] _spin_lock+0x8/0x19
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
We found a problem with buffer head reference leaks when using an ext4
partition without a journal. In particular, calls to ext4_forget() would
not to a brelse() on the input buffer head, which will cause pages they
belong to to not be reclaimable.
Further investigation showed that all places where ext4_journal_forget() and
ext4_journal_revoke() are called are subject to the same problem. The patch
below changes __ext4_journal_forget/__ext4_journal_revoke to do an explicit
release of the buffer head when the journal handle isn't valid.
Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
If TRACE_INCLDUE_FILE is defined, <trace/events/TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE.h>
will be included and compiled, otherwise it will be
<trace/events/TRACE_SYSTEM.h>
So TRACE_SYSTEM should be defined outside of #if proctection,
just like TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE.
Imaging this scenario:
#include <trace/events/foo.h>
-> TRACE_SYSTEM == foo
...
#include <trace/events/bar.h>
-> TRACE_SYSTEM == bar
...
#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
#include <trace/events/foo.h>
-> TRACE_SYSTEM == bar !!!
and then bar.h will be included and compiled.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A5A9CF1.2010007@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This makes generic netlink network namespace aware. No
generic netlink families except for the controller family
are made namespace aware, they need to be checked one by
one and then set the family->netnsok member to true.
A new function genlmsg_multicast_netns() is introduced to
allow sending a multicast message in a given namespace,
for example when it applies to an object that lives in
that namespace, a new function genlmsg_multicast_allns()
to send a message to all network namespaces (for objects
that do not have an associated netns).
The function genlmsg_multicast() is changed to multicast
the message in just init_net, which is currently correct
for all generic netlink families since they only work in
init_net right now. Some will later want to work in all
net namespaces because they do not care about the netns
at all -- those will have to be converted to use one of
the new functions genlmsg_multicast_allns() or
genlmsg_multicast_netns() whenever they are made netns
aware in some way.
After this patch families can easily decide whether or
not they should be available in all net namespaces. Many
genl families us it for objects not related to networking
and should therefore be available in all namespaces, but
that will have to be done on a per family basis.
Note that this doesn't touch on the checkpoint/restart
problem where network namespaces could be used, genl
families and multicast groups are numbered globally and
I see no easy way of changing that, especially since it
must be possible to multicast to all network namespaces
for those families that do not care about netns.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
git commit f67f129e "Driver core: implement uevent suppress in kobject"
contains this chunk for fs/partitions/check.c:
/* suppress uevent if the disk supresses it */
- if (!ddev->uevent_suppress)
+ if (!dev_get_uevent_suppress(pdev))
kobject_uevent(&pdev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
However that should have been
- if (!ddev->uevent_suppress)
+ if (!dev_get_uevent_suppress(ddev))
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fix the following warning:
fs/afs/dir.c: In function 'afs_d_revalidate':
fs/afs/dir.c:567: warning: 'fid.vnode' may be used uninitialized in this function
fs/afs/dir.c:567: warning: 'fid.unique' may be used uninitialized in this function
by marking the 'fid' variable as an uninitialized_var. The problem is
that gcc doesn't always manage to work out that fid is always set on the
path through the function that uses it.
Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Remove smp_lock.h from files which don't need it (including some headers!)
* Add smp_lock.h to files which do need it
* Make smp_lock.h include conditional in hardirq.h
It's needed only for one kernel_locked() usage which is under CONFIG_PREEMPT
This will make hardirq.h inclusion cheaper for every PREEMPT=n config
(which includes allmodconfig/allyesconfig, BTW)
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This reverts commit 097041e576ee3a50d92dd643ee8ca65bf6a62e21.
Trond had a better fix, which is the parent of this one ("Fix compile
error due to congestion_wait() changes")
Requested-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
commit 5404ac8e4418ab3d254950ee4f9bcafc1da20b4a ("isofs: cleanup mount
option processing") missed conversion of joliet option flag resulting
in non-working Joliet support.
CC: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6:
UBIFS: fix corruption dump
UBIFS: clean up free space checking
UBIFS: small amendments in the LEB scanning code
UBIFS: dump a little more in case of corruptions
MAINTAINERS: update ahunter's e-mail address
UBIFS: allow more than one volume to be mounted
UBIFS: fix assertion warning
UBIFS: minor spelling and grammar fixes
UBIFS: fix 64-bit divisions in debug print
UBIFS: few spelling fixes
UBIFS: set write-buffer timout to 3-5 seconds
UBIFS: slightly optimize write-buffer timer usage
UBIFS: improve debugging messaged
UBIFS: fix integer overflow warning
* 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd:
osdblk: Adjust queue limits to lower device's limits
osdblk: a Linux block device for OSD objects
MAINTAINERS: Add osd maintained files (F:)
exofs: Avoid using file_fsync()
exofs: Remove IBM copyrights
exofs: Fix bio leak in error handling path (sync read)
When building v2.6.31-rc2-344-g69ca06c, the following build errors are
found due to missing includes:
CC [M] fs/fuse/dev.o
fs/fuse/dev.c: In function ‘request_end’:
fs/fuse/dev.c:289: error: ‘BLK_RW_SYNC’ undeclared (first use in this function)
...
fs/nfs/write.c: In function ‘nfs_set_page_writeback’:
fs/nfs/write.c:207: error: ‘BLK_RW_ASYNC’ undeclared (first use in this function)
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2:
nilfs2: fix disorder in cp count on error during deleting checkpoints
nilfs2: fix lockdep warning between regular file and inode file
nilfs2: fix incorrect KERN_CRIT messages in case of write failures
nilfs2: fix hang problem of log writer which occurs after write failures
nilfs2: remove unlikely directive causing mis-conversion of error code
I overlooked SG_DXFER_TO_FROM_DEV support when I converted sg to use
the block layer mapping API (2.6.28).
Douglas Gilbert explained SG_DXFER_TO_FROM_DEV:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg37135.html
=
The semantics of SG_DXFER_TO_FROM_DEV were:
- copy user space buffer to kernel (LLD) buffer
- do SCSI command which is assumed to be of the DATA_IN
(data from device) variety. This would overwrite
some or all of the kernel buffer
- copy kernel (LLD) buffer back to the user space.
The idea was to detect short reads by filling the original
user space buffer with some marker bytes ("0xec" it would
seem in this report). The "resid" value is a better way
of detecting short reads but that was only added this century
and requires co-operation from the LLD.
=
This patch changes the block layer mapping API to support this
semantics. This simply adds another field to struct rq_map_data and
enables __bio_copy_iov() to copy data from user space even with READ
requests.
It's better to add the flags field and kills null_mapped and the new
from_user fields in struct rq_map_data but that approach makes it
difficult to send this patch to stable trees because st and osst
drivers use struct rq_map_data (they were converted to use the block
layer in 2.6.29 and 2.6.30). Well, I should clean up the block layer
mapping API.
zhou sf reported this regiression and tested this patch:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg37128.htmlhttp://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg37168.html
Reported-by: zhou sf <sxzzsf@gmail.com>
Tested-by: zhou sf <sxzzsf@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Commit 1faa16d22877f4839bd433547d770c676d1d964c accidentally broke
the bdi congestion wait queue logic, causing us to wait on congestion
for WRITE (== 1) when we really wanted BLK_RW_ASYNC (== 0) instead.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
cifs: when ATTR_READONLY is set, only clear write bits on non-directories
cifs: remove cifsInodeInfo->inUse counter
cifs: convert cifs_get_inode_info and non-posix readdir to use cifs_iget
[CIFS] update cifs version number
cifs: add and use CIFSSMBUnixSetFileInfo for setattr calls
cifs: make a separate function for filling out FILE_UNIX_BASIC_INFO
cifs: rename CIFSSMBUnixSetInfo to CIFSSMBUnixSetPathInfo
cifs: add pid of initiating process to spnego upcall info
cifs: fix regression with O_EXCL creates and optimize away lookup
cifs: add new cifs_iget function and convert unix codepath to use it
cifs: when ATTR_READONLY is set, only clear write bits on non-directories
On windows servers, ATTR_READONLY apparently either has no meaning or
serves as some sort of queue to certain applications for unrelated
behavior. This MS kbase article has details:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326549/
Don't clear the write bits directory mode when ATTR_READONLY is set.
Reported-by: pouchat@peewiki.net
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
cifs: remove cifsInodeInfo->inUse counter
It was purported to be a refcounter of some sort, but was never
used that way. It never served any purpose that wasn't served equally well
by the I_NEW flag.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
cifs: convert cifs_get_inode_info and non-posix readdir to use cifs_iget
Rather than allocating an inode and filling it out, have
cifs_get_inode_info fill out a cifs_fattr and call cifs_iget. This means
a pretty hefty reorganization of cifs_get_inode_info.
For the readdir codepath, add a couple of new functions for filling out
cifs_fattr's from different FindFile response infolevels.
Finally, remove cifs_new_inode since there are no more callers.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
cifs: add and use CIFSSMBUnixSetFileInfo for setattr calls
When there's an open filehandle, SET_FILE_INFO is apparently preferred
over SET_PATH_INFO. Add a new variant that sets a FILE_UNIX_INFO_BASIC
infolevel via SET_FILE_INFO and switch cifs_setattr_unix to use the
new call when there's an open filehandle available.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
cifs: make a separate function for filling out FILE_UNIX_BASIC_INFO
The SET_FILE_INFO variant will need to do the same thing here. Break
this code out into a separate function that both variants can call.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
cifs: rename CIFSSMBUnixSetInfo to CIFSSMBUnixSetPathInfo
...in preparation of adding a SET_FILE_INFO variant.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
cifs: add pid of initiating process to spnego upcall info
This will allow the upcall to poke in /proc/<pid>/environ and get
the value of the $KRB5CCNAME env var for the process.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
In the 'ubifs_recover_leb()' function, when we find corrupted
empty space, we dump 8K starting from the offset where the last
node ends. This is OK if the corrupted empty space is somewhere
near that offset. But if the corruption is far at the end of the
LEB, we will dump all 0xFF bytes and complitely ignore the
interesting data. This is observed on a PPC ("kilauea") with
NOR flash.
This patch changes the behavior and teaches UBIFS to print only
interesting data. I.e., now we find where corruption starts and
start dumping from that offset.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter <Adrian.Hunter@nokia.com>
recovery.c has 'is_empty()' helper and it is better to use
this helper instead of re-implementing it in several places.
This patch does this and removes some amount of unneeded code.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter <Adrian.Hunter@nokia.com>
This patch fixes few minor things I've spotted while going through
code:
1. Better document return codes
2. If 'ubifs_scan_a_node()' returns some thing we do not expect,
treat this as an error.
3. Try to do recovery only when 'ubifs_scan()' returns %-EUCLEAN,
not on any error.
4. If empty space starts at a non-aligned address, print a message.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter <Adrian.Hunter@nokia.com>
In case of corruptions, dump 8192 bytes instead of 4096. The
largest node is 4096+ bytes, so it is better to see a node
boundary, which is not always possible when only 4096 bytes
are printed.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter <Adrian.Hunter@nokia.com>
Commit 5fd29d6ccbc98884569d6f3105aeca70858b3e0f ("printk: clean up
handling of log-levels and newlines") changed printk semantics. printk
lines with multiple KERN_<level> prefixes are no longer emitted as
before the patch.
<level> is now included in the output on each additional use.
Remove all uses of multiple KERN_<level>s in formats.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 1c8542c7bb replaced kmalloc() with memdup_user() in the write()
function but also dropped the kfree(temp). The memdup_user() function
allocates memory which is never freed.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Parag Warudkar <parag.warudkar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix various silly problems wrt mnt_namespace.h:
- exit_mnt_ns() isn't used, remove it
- done that, sched.h and nsproxy.h inclusions aren't needed
- mount.h inclusion was need for vfsmount_lock, but no longer
- remove mnt_namespace.h inclusion from files which don't use anything
from mnt_namespace.h
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The following test script triggers a deadlock on ext2 filesystem:
while true; do quotaon /dev/hda >&/dev/null; usleep $RANDOM; done &
while true; do quotaoff /dev/hda >&/dev/null; usleep $RANDOM; done &
I found there is a potential deadlock between quotaon and quotaoff (or
quotasync). Basically, all of quotactl operations need to be protected by
dqonoff_mutex. vfs_quota_off and vfs_quota_sync also call sb->s_op->quota_write
that needs to grab the i_mutex of the quota file. But in vfs_quota_on_inode
(called from quotaon operation), the current code tries to grab the i_mutex of
the quota file first before getting quonoff_mutex.
Reverse the order in which we take locks in vfs_quota_on_inode().
Jan Kara: Changed changelog to be more readable, made lockdep happy with
I_MUTEX_QUOTA.
Signed-off-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
do_execve() and ptrace_attach() return -EINTR if
mutex_lock_interruptible(->cred_guard_mutex) fails.
This is not right, change the code to return ERESTARTNOINTR.
Perhaps we should also change proc_pid_attr_write().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I run many ffsb test cases on JBODs (typically 13/12 disks). Comparing
with kernel 2.6.30, 2.6.31-rc1 has about 16% regression with
ffsb_create_4k. The sub test case creates files continuously for 10
minitues and every file is 1MB.
Bisect located below patch.
5cee5815d1564bbbd505fea86f4550f1efdb5cd0 is first bad commit
commit 5cee5815d1564bbbd505fea86f4550f1efdb5cd0
Author: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: Mon Apr 27 16:43:51 2009 +0200
vfs: Make sys_sync() use fsync_super() (version 4)
It is unnecessarily fragile to have two places (fsync_super() and do_sync())
doing data integrity sync of the filesystem. Alter __fsync_super() to
accommodate needs of both callers and use it. So after this patch
__fsync_super() is the only place where we gather all the calls needed to
properly send all data on a filesystem to disk.
As a matter of fact, ffsb calls sys_sync in the end to make sure all data
is flushed to disks and the flushing is counted into the result. vmstat
shows ffsb is blocked when syncing for a long time. With 2.6.30, ffsb is
blocked for a short time.
I checked the patch and did experiments to recover the original methods.
Eventually, the root cause is the patch deletes the calling to
wakeup_pdflush when syncing, so only ffsb is blocked on disk I/O.
wakeup_pdflush could ask pdflush to write back pages with ffsb at the
same time.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: restore comment too]
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
