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ext4: fix io-barrier logic for external journal case

Message ID 87wrxij28h.fsf@openvz.org
State New, archived
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Dmitry Monakhov March 11, 2010, 3:40 p.m. UTC 
We have to submit barrier before we start journal commit process.
otherwise transaction may be committed before data flushed to disk.
There is no difference from performance of view, but definitely
fsync becomes more correct.

If jbd2_log_start_commit return 0 then it means that transaction
was already committed. So we don't have to issue barrier for
ordered mode, because it was already done during commit.

By unknown reason we ignored ret val from jbd2_log_wait_commit()
so even in case of EIO fsync will succeed.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
---
 fs/ext4/fsync.c |   28 +++++++++++++---------------
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

Comments

Jan Kara March 11, 2010, 4:27 p.m. UTC | #1 
> We have to submit barrier before we start journal commit process.
> otherwise transaction may be committed before data flushed to disk.
> There is no difference from performance of view, but definitely
> fsync becomes more correct.
> 
> If jbd2_log_start_commit return 0 then it means that transaction
> was already committed. So we don't have to issue barrier for
> ordered mode, because it was already done during commit.
  Umm, we have to - when a file has just been rewritten (i.e. no block
allocation), then i_datasync_tid is not updated and thus we won't commit
any transaction as a part of fdatasync (and that is correct because there
are no metadata that need to be written for that fdatasync). But we still
have to flush disk caches with data submitted by filemap_fdatawrite_and_wait.

> By unknown reason we ignored ret val from jbd2_log_wait_commit()
> so even in case of EIO fsync will succeed.
  I just forgot jbd2_log_wait_commit can return a failure...

								Honza
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diff --git a/fs/ext4/fsync.c b/fs/ext4/fsync.c
index 0d0c323..621a8ed 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/fsync.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/fsync.c
@@ -88,21 +88,19 @@  int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
 		return ext4_force_commit(inode->i_sb);
 
 	commit_tid = datasync ? ei->i_datasync_tid : ei->i_sync_tid;
-	if (jbd2_log_start_commit(journal, commit_tid)) {
-		/*
-		 * When the journal is on a different device than the
-		 * fs data disk, we need to issue the barrier in
-		 * writeback mode.  (In ordered mode, the jbd2 layer
-		 * will take care of issuing the barrier.  In
-		 * data=journal, all of the data blocks are written to
-		 * the journal device.)
-		 */
-		if (ext4_should_writeback_data(inode) &&
-		    (journal->j_fs_dev != journal->j_dev) &&
-		    (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER))
-			blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, NULL);
-		jbd2_log_wait_commit(journal, commit_tid);
-	} else if (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER)
+	/*
+	 * When the journal is on a different device than the
+	 * fs data disk, we need to issue the barrier in
+	 * writeback mode.  (In ordered mode, the jbd2 layer
+	 * will take care of issuing the barrier.  In
+	 * data=journal, all of the data blocks are written to
+	 * the journal device.)
+	 */
+	if (ext4_should_writeback_data(inode) &&
+		(journal->j_fs_dev != journal->j_dev) &&
+		(journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER))
 		blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, NULL);
+	if (jbd2_log_start_commit(journal, commit_tid))
+		ret = jbd2_log_wait_commit(journal, commit_tid);
 	return ret;
 }