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[v2,1/1] mtd: mtd_blkdevs: handle REQ_FLUSH request and do explicit flush of writeback buffer

Message ID 1394283554-27423-1-git-send-email-r.peniaev@gmail.com
State Accepted
Commit 566c0d6a74169dc5cc9f353ff4a8d579d96a85ff
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Commit Message

Roman Pen March 8, 2014, 12:59 p.m. UTC 
From: Roman Peniaev <r.peniaev@gmail.com>

mtd_blkdevs is device with volatile cache (writeback buffer), so it should support
REQ_FLUSH to do explicit flush.

Without this patch 'sync' does not guarantee that writeback buffer will be flushed
on disk in case of power off, e.g.:

  $ cp some_file /mnt
  $ sync

  ### POWER OFF

In case of this sequence writeback buffer will not be flushed on disk.

This patch fixes this behaviour and explicitly reports to block layer that flush
requests are being supported.

Signed-off-by: Roman Peniaev <r.peniaev@gmail.com>
CC: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
CC: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
CC: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

Comments

Brian Norris April 16, 2014, 6:57 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 09:59:14PM +0900, Roman Pen wrote:
> From: Roman Peniaev <r.peniaev@gmail.com>
> 
> mtd_blkdevs is device with volatile cache (writeback buffer), so it should support
> REQ_FLUSH to do explicit flush.
> 
> Without this patch 'sync' does not guarantee that writeback buffer will be flushed
> on disk in case of power off, e.g.:
> 
>   $ cp some_file /mnt
>   $ sync
> 
>   ### POWER OFF
> 
> In case of this sequence writeback buffer will not be flushed on disk.
> 
> This patch fixes this behaviour and explicitly reports to block layer that flush
> requests are being supported.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Peniaev <r.peniaev@gmail.com>
> CC: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> CC: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
> CC: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Pushed to l2-mtd.git. Thanks!

Brian
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diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c b/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c
index 5073cbc..b2970a0 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c
@@ -89,6 +89,9 @@  static int do_blktrans_request(struct mtd_blktrans_ops *tr,
 	if (req->cmd_type != REQ_TYPE_FS)
 		return -EIO;
 
+	if (req->cmd_flags & REQ_FLUSH)
+		return tr->flush(dev);
+
 	if (blk_rq_pos(req) + blk_rq_cur_sectors(req) >
 	    get_capacity(req->rq_disk))
 		return -EIO;
@@ -409,6 +412,9 @@  int add_mtd_blktrans_dev(struct mtd_blktrans_dev *new)
 	if (!new->rq)
 		goto error3;
 
+	if (tr->flush)
+		blk_queue_flush(new->rq, REQ_FLUSH);
+
 	new->rq->queuedata = new;
 	blk_queue_logical_block_size(new->rq, tr->blksize);