From 0dc83bd30b0bf5410c0933cfbbf8853248eff0a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 11:19:04 +0100 Subject: Revert "writeback: do not sync data dirtied after sync start" This reverts commit c4a391b53a72d2df4ee97f96f78c1d5971b47489. Dave Chinner has reported the commit may cause some inodes to be left out from sync(2). This is because we can call redirty_tail() for some inode (which sets i_dirtied_when to current time) after sync(2) has started or similarly requeue_inode() can set i_dirtied_when to current time if writeback had to skip some pages. The real problem is in the functions clobbering i_dirtied_when but fixing that isn't trivial so revert is a safer choice for now. CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # >= 3.13 Signed-off-by: Jan Kara --- fs/sync.c | 15 ++++++--------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/sync.c') diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c index e8ba024a055b..b28d1dd10e8b 100644 --- a/fs/sync.c +++ b/fs/sync.c @@ -27,11 +27,10 @@ * wait == 1 case since in that case write_inode() functions do * sync_dirty_buffer() and thus effectively write one block at a time. */ -static int __sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb, int wait, - unsigned long start) +static int __sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb, int wait) { if (wait) - sync_inodes_sb(sb, start); + sync_inodes_sb(sb); else writeback_inodes_sb(sb, WB_REASON_SYNC); @@ -48,7 +47,6 @@ static int __sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb, int wait, int sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb) { int ret; - unsigned long start = jiffies; /* * We need to be protected against the filesystem going from @@ -62,17 +60,17 @@ int sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb) if (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) return 0; - ret = __sync_filesystem(sb, 0, start); + ret = __sync_filesystem(sb, 0); if (ret < 0) return ret; - return __sync_filesystem(sb, 1, start); + return __sync_filesystem(sb, 1); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sync_filesystem); static void sync_inodes_one_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *arg) { if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) - sync_inodes_sb(sb, *((unsigned long *)arg)); + sync_inodes_sb(sb); } static void sync_fs_one_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *arg) @@ -104,10 +102,9 @@ static void fdatawait_one_bdev(struct block_device *bdev, void *arg) SYSCALL_DEFINE0(sync) { int nowait = 0, wait = 1; - unsigned long start = jiffies; wakeup_flusher_threads(0, WB_REASON_SYNC); - iterate_supers(sync_inodes_one_sb, &start); + iterate_supers(sync_inodes_one_sb, NULL); iterate_supers(sync_fs_one_sb, &nowait); iterate_supers(sync_fs_one_sb, &wait); iterate_bdevs(fdatawrite_one_bdev, NULL); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b