jbd2: fix sending of data flush on journal commit

In data=ordered mode, it's theoretically possible (however rare) that an inode is filed to transaction's t_inode_list and a flusher thread writes all the data and inode is reclaimed before the transaction starts to commit. In such a case, we could erroneously omit sending a flush to file system device when it is different from the journal device (because data can still be in disk cache only). Fix the problem by setting a flag in a transaction when some inode is added to it and then send disk flush in the commit code when the flag is set. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
caferrari · May 24, 2011 · 81be12c · 81be12c
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diff --git a/fs/jbd2/commit.c b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
@@ -219,7 +219,6 @@ static int journal_submit_data_buffers(journal_t *journal,
 			ret = err;
 		spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock);
 		J_ASSERT(jinode->i_transaction == commit_transaction);
-		commit_transaction->t_flushed_data_blocks = 1;
 		clear_bit(__JI_COMMIT_RUNNING, &jinode->i_flags);
 		smp_mb__after_clear_bit();
 		wake_up_bit(&jinode->i_flags, __JI_COMMIT_RUNNING);
@@ -683,7 +682,7 @@ void jbd2_journal_commit_transaction(journal_t *journal)
 	 * then we must flush the file system device before we issue
 	 * the commit record
 	 */
-	if (commit_transaction->t_flushed_data_blocks &&
+	if (commit_transaction->t_need_data_flush &&
 	    (journal->j_fs_dev != journal->j_dev) &&
 	    (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER))
 		blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_fs_dev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);

diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
@@ -2147,6 +2147,13 @@ int jbd2_journal_file_inode(handle_t *handle, struct jbd2_inode *jinode)
 	    jinode->i_next_transaction == transaction)
 		goto done;
 
+	/*
+	 * We only ever set this variable to 1 so the test is safe. Since
+	 * t_need_data_flush is likely to be set, we do the test to save some
+	 * cacheline bouncing
+	 */
+	if (!transaction->t_need_data_flush)
+		transaction->t_need_data_flush = 1;
 	/* On some different transaction's list - should be
 	 * the committing one */
 	if (jinode->i_transaction) {

diff --git a/include/linux/jbd2.h b/include/linux/jbd2.h
@@ -658,7 +658,9 @@ struct transaction_s
 	 * waiting for it to finish.
 	 */
 	unsigned int t_synchronous_commit:1;
-	unsigned int t_flushed_data_blocks:1;
+
+	/* Disk flush needs to be sent to fs partition [no locking] */
+	int			t_need_data_flush;
 
 	/*
 	 * For use by the filesystem to store fs-specific data