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Dave Chinner b6f8dd49db xfs: ensure that sync updates the log tail correctly 
Updates to the VFS layer removed an extra ->sync_fs call into the
filesystem during the sync process (from the quota code).
Unfortunately the sync code was unknowingly relying on this call to
make sure metadata buffers were flushed via a xfs_buftarg_flush()
call to move the tail of the log forward in memory before the final
transactions of the sync process were issued.

As a result, the old code would write a very recent log tail value
to the log by the end of the sync process, and so a subsequent crash
would leave nothing for log recovery to do. Hence in qa test 182,
log recovery only replayed a small handle for inode fsync
transactions in this case.

However, with the removal of the extra ->sync_fs call, the log tail
was now not moved forward with the inode fsync transactions near the
end of the sync procese the first (and only) buftarg flush occurred
after these transactions went to disk. The result is that log
recovery now sees a large number of transactions for metadata that
is already on disk.

This usually isn't a problem, but when the transactions include
inode chunk allocation, the inode create transactions and all
subsequent changes are replayed as we cannt rely on what is on disk
is valid. As a result, if the inode was written and contains
unlogged changes, the unlogged changes are lost, thereby violating
sync semantics.

The fix is to always issue a transaction after the buftarg flush
occurs is the log iѕ not idle or covered. This results in a dummy
transaction being written that contains the up-to-date log tail
value, which will be very recent. Indeed, it will be at least as
recent as the old code would have left on disk, so log recovery
will behave exactly as it used to in this situation.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-04-16 13:51:23 -05:00
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9p Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs 2010-04-05 13:42:54 -07:00
adfs include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
affs include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
afs include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
autofs include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
autofs4 include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
befs include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
bfs pass writeback_control to ->write_inode 2010-03-05 13:25:52 -05:00
btrfs Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable 2010-04-12 18:37:04 -07:00
cachefiles include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
ceph Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client 2010-04-14 18:45:31 -07:00
cifs Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6 2010-04-08 11:58:14 -07:00
coda include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
configfs include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
cramfs
debugfs include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
devpts include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
dlm include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
ecryptfs include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
efs
exofs include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
exportfs
ext2 ext2: symlink must be handled via filesystem specific operation 2010-04-12 21:11:25 +02:00
ext3 ext3: symlink must be handled via filesystem specific operation 2010-04-12 21:11:39 +02:00
ext4 include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
fat Merge branch 'master' into export-slabh 2010-04-05 11:37:28 +09:00
freevxfs include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
fscache fs-cache: order the debugfs stats correctly 2010-04-07 08:38:05 -07:00
fuse include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
gfs2 include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
hfs include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
hfsplus include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
hostfs include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
hpfs include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
hppfs hppfs can use existing proc_mnt, no need for do_kern_mount() in there 2010-03-03 14:08:00 -05:00
hugetlbfs
isofs include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
jbd include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
jbd2 include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
jffs2 include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
jfs include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
lockd include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
logfs Merge branch 'master' into export-slabh 2010-04-05 11:37:28 +09:00
minix include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
ncpfs include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
nfs NFSv4: fix delegated locking 2010-04-12 07:55:15 -04:00
nfs_common include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
nfsd include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
nilfs2 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2 2010-04-12 18:34:25 -07:00
nls
notify include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
ntfs include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
ocfs2 include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
omfs include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
openpromfs
partitions include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
proc pagemap: fix pfn calculation for hugepage 2010-04-07 08:38:04 -07:00
qnx4 fs/qnx4: decrement sizeof size in strncmp 2010-02-04 11:55:46 +01:00
quota quota: Fix possible dq_flags corruption 2010-04-12 21:12:36 +02:00
ramfs include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
reiserfs Merge branch 'master' into export-slabh 2010-04-05 11:37:28 +09:00
romfs
smbfs include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
squashfs include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
sysfs include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
sysv pass writeback_control to ->write_inode 2010-03-05 13:25:52 -05:00
ubifs include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
udf udf: add speciffic ->setattr callback 2010-04-08 15:35:20 +02:00
ufs ufs: make solaris fsck happy 2010-03-12 15:52:35 -08:00
xfs xfs: ensure that sync updates the log tail correctly 2010-04-16 13:51:23 -05:00
aio.c
anon_inodes.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
attr.c fs: use rlimit helpers 2010-03-06 11:26:29 -08:00
bad_inode.c
binfmt_aout.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c FDPIC: For-loop in elf_core_vma_data_size() is incorrect 2010-03-24 16:43:29 -07:00
binfmt_elf.c coredump: pass mm->flags as a coredump parameter for consistency 2010-03-06 11:26:46 -08:00
binfmt_em86.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
binfmt_flat.c fs: use rlimit helpers 2010-03-06 11:26:29 -08:00
binfmt_misc.c
binfmt_script.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
binfmt_som.c
bio-integrity.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
bio.c Merge branch 'master' into for-linus 2010-03-19 08:05:10 +01:00
block_dev.c vfs: rename block_fsync() to blkdev_fsync() 2010-04-07 08:38:04 -07:00
buffer.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-03-12 16:04:50 -08:00
char_dev.c
compat_binfmt_elf.c elf coredump: replace ELF_CORE_EXTRA_* macros by functions 2010-03-06 11:26:45 -08:00
compat_ioctl.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
compat.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
dcache.c fix race in d_splice_alias() 2010-03-03 14:13:08 -05:00
dcookies.c
direct-io.c
drop_caches.c
eventfd.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
eventpoll.c
exec.c coredump: suppress uid comparison test if core output files are pipes 2010-03-06 11:26:46 -08:00
fcntl.c fs: use rlimit helpers 2010-03-06 11:26:29 -08:00
fifo.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
file_table.c vfs: take f_lock on modifying f_mode after open time 2010-03-06 11:26:25 -08:00
file.c fs: use rlimit helpers 2010-03-06 11:26:29 -08:00
filesystems.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
fs_struct.c
fs-writeback.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2010-04-09 11:50:29 -07:00
generic_acl.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
inode.c dquot: move dquot initialization responsibility into the filesystem 2010-03-05 00:20:30 +01:00
internal.h Take vfsmount_lock to fs/internal.h 2010-03-03 14:07:59 -05:00
ioctl.c
ioprio.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client 2010-03-19 09:43:06 -07:00
Kconfig.binfmt
libfs.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
locks.c Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus 2010-03-08 16:55:37 +01:00
Makefile Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client 2010-03-19 09:43:06 -07:00
mbcache.c
mpage.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
namei.c Restore LOOKUP_DIRECTORY hint handling in final lookup on open() 2010-03-26 12:41:05 -04:00
namespace.c vfs: add NOFOLLOW flag to umount(2) 2010-03-03 14:08:00 -05:00
nfsctl.c Switch may_open() and break_lease() to passing O_... 2010-03-03 13:00:21 -05:00
no-block.c
open.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
pipe.c
pnode.c Kill CL_PROPAGATION, sanitize fs/pnode.c:get_source() 2010-03-03 13:00:22 -05:00
pnode.h VFS: Clean up shared mount flag propagation 2010-03-03 14:07:55 -05:00
posix_acl.c
read_write.c do_sync_read/write() should set kiocb.ki_nbytes to be consistent 2010-03-24 16:43:29 -07:00
read_write.h
readdir.c
select.c Add generic sys_old_select() 2010-03-12 15:52:32 -08:00
seq_file.c seq_file: fix new kernel-doc warnings 2010-03-07 15:48:26 -08:00
signalfd.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
splice.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
stack.c
stat.c
super.c Mirror MS_KERNMOUNT in ->mnt_flags 2010-03-03 14:08:00 -05:00
sync.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
timerfd.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
utimes.c
xattr_acl.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
xattr.c