aha/fs/ext3/fsync.c
Jan Kara fe8bc91c4c ext3: Wait for proper transaction commit on fsync
We cannot rely on buffer dirty bits during fsync because pdflush can come
before fsync is called and clear dirty bits without forcing a transaction
commit. What we do is that we track which transaction has last changed
the inode and which transaction last changed allocation and force it to
disk on fsync.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-11-11 15:22:49 +01:00

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/*
* linux/fs/ext3/fsync.c
*
* Copyright (C) 1993 Stephen Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
* from
* Copyright (C) 1992 Remy Card (card@masi.ibp.fr)
* Laboratoire MASI - Institut Blaise Pascal
* Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
* from
* linux/fs/minix/truncate.c Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Linus Torvalds
*
* ext3fs fsync primitive
*
* Big-endian to little-endian byte-swapping/bitmaps by
* David S. Miller (davem@caip.rutgers.edu), 1995
*
* Removed unnecessary code duplication for little endian machines
* and excessive __inline__s.
* Andi Kleen, 1997
*
* Major simplications and cleanup - we only need to do the metadata, because
* we can depend on generic_block_fdatasync() to sync the data blocks.
*/
#include <linux/time.h>
#include <linux/blkdev.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/writeback.h>
#include <linux/jbd.h>
#include <linux/ext3_fs.h>
#include <linux/ext3_jbd.h>
/*
* akpm: A new design for ext3_sync_file().
*
* This is only called from sys_fsync(), sys_fdatasync() and sys_msync().
* There cannot be a transaction open by this task.
* Another task could have dirtied this inode. Its data can be in any
* state in the journalling system.
*
* What we do is just kick off a commit and wait on it. This will snapshot the
* inode to disk.
*/
int ext3_sync_file(struct file * file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
{
struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
struct ext3_inode_info *ei = EXT3_I(inode);
journal_t *journal = EXT3_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal;
int ret = 0;
tid_t commit_tid;
if (inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)
return 0;
J_ASSERT(ext3_journal_current_handle() == NULL);
/*
* data=writeback,ordered:
* The caller's filemap_fdatawrite()/wait will sync the data.
* Metadata is in the journal, we wait for a proper transaction
* to commit here.
*
* data=journal:
* filemap_fdatawrite won't do anything (the buffers are clean).
* ext3_force_commit will write the file data into the journal and
* will wait on that.
* filemap_fdatawait() will encounter a ton of newly-dirtied pages
* (they were dirtied by commit). But that's OK - the blocks are
* safe in-journal, which is all fsync() needs to ensure.
*/
if (ext3_should_journal_data(inode)) {
ret = ext3_force_commit(inode->i_sb);
goto out;
}
if (datasync)
commit_tid = atomic_read(&ei->i_datasync_tid);
else
commit_tid = atomic_read(&ei->i_sync_tid);
if (log_start_commit(journal, commit_tid)) {
log_wait_commit(journal, commit_tid);
goto out;
}
/*
* In case we didn't commit a transaction, we have to flush
* disk caches manually so that data really is on persistent
* storage
*/
if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, BARRIER))
blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, NULL);
out:
return ret;
}