Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs

* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
  xfs: stop calling filemap_fdatawait inside ->fsync
  fix readahead calculations in xfs_dir2_leaf_getdents()
  xfs: make sure xfs_sync_fsdata covers the log
  xfs: mark inodes dirty before issuing I/O
  xfs: cleanup ->sync_fs
  xfs: fix xfs_quiesce_data
  xfs: implement ->dirty_inode to fix timestamp handling

1 files changed, 41 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
index bdd41c8c342f..18a4b8e11df2 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
@@ -977,6 +977,28 @@ xfs_fs_inode_init_once(
 }
 
 /*
+ * Dirty the XFS inode when mark_inode_dirty_sync() is called so that
+ * we catch unlogged VFS level updates to the inode. Care must be taken
+ * here - the transaction code calls mark_inode_dirty_sync() to mark the
+ * VFS inode dirty in a transaction and clears the i_update_core field;
+ * it must clear the field after calling mark_inode_dirty_sync() to
+ * correctly indicate that the dirty state has been propagated into the
+ * inode log item.
+ *
+ * We need the barrier() to maintain correct ordering between unlogged
+ * updates and the transaction commit code that clears the i_update_core
+ * field. This requires all updates to be completed before marking the
+ * inode dirty.
+ */
+STATIC void
+xfs_fs_dirty_inode(
+        struct inode    *inode)
+{
+        barrier();
+        XFS_I(inode)->i_update_core = 1;
+}
+
+/*
  * Attempt to flush the inode, this will actually fail
  * if the inode is pinned, but we dirty the inode again
  * at the point when it is unpinned after a log write,
@@ -1126,7 +1148,7 @@ xfs_fs_put_super(
 }
 
 STATIC int
-xfs_fs_sync_super(
+xfs_fs_sync_fs(
         struct super_block      *sb,
         int                     wait)
 {
@@ -1134,23 +1156,23 @@ xfs_fs_sync_super(
         int                     error;
 
         /*
-         * Treat a sync operation like a freeze.  This is to work
-         * around a race in sync_inodes() which works in two phases
-         * - an asynchronous flush, which can write out an inode
-         * without waiting for file size updates to complete, and a
-         * synchronous flush, which wont do anything because the
-         * async flush removed the inode's dirty flag.  Also
-         * sync_inodes() will not see any files that just have
-         * outstanding transactions to be flushed because we don't
-         * dirty the Linux inode until after the transaction I/O
-         * completes.
+         * Not much we can do for the first async pass.  Writing out the
+         * superblock would be counter-productive as we are going to redirty
+         * when writing out other data and metadata (and writing out a single
+         * block is quite fast anyway).
+         *
+         * Try to asynchronously kick off quota syncing at least.
          */
-        if (wait || unlikely(sb->s_frozen == SB_FREEZE_WRITE))
-                error = xfs_quiesce_data(mp);
-        else
-                error = xfs_sync_fsdata(mp, 0);
+        if (!wait) {
+                xfs_qm_sync(mp, SYNC_TRYLOCK);
+                return 0;
+        }
+
+        error = xfs_quiesce_data(mp);
+        if (error)
+                return -error;
 
-        if (unlikely(laptop_mode)) {
+        if (laptop_mode) {
                 int     prev_sync_seq = mp->m_sync_seq;
 
                 /*
@@ -1169,7 +1191,7 @@ xfs_fs_sync_super(
                                 mp->m_sync_seq != prev_sync_seq);
         }
 
-        return -error;
+        return 0;
 }
 
 STATIC int
@@ -1539,10 +1561,11 @@ xfs_fs_get_sb(
 static const struct super_operations xfs_super_operations = {
         .alloc_inode            = xfs_fs_alloc_inode,
         .destroy_inode          = xfs_fs_destroy_inode,
+        .dirty_inode            = xfs_fs_dirty_inode,
         .write_inode            = xfs_fs_write_inode,
         .clear_inode            = xfs_fs_clear_inode,
         .put_super              = xfs_fs_put_super,
-        .sync_fs                = xfs_fs_sync_super,
+        .sync_fs                = xfs_fs_sync_fs,
         .freeze_fs              = xfs_fs_freeze,
         .statfs                 = xfs_fs_statfs,
         .remount_fs             = xfs_fs_remount,