1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c
index d4b7b21a6e56..3c31137cdc7f 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c
@@ -526,6 +526,11 @@ xfs_flush_device(
         xfs_log_force(ip->i_mount, (xfs_lsn_t)0, XFS_LOG_FORCE|XFS_LOG_SYNC);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Every sync period we need to unpin all items, reclaim inodes, sync
+ * quota and write out the superblock. We might need to cover the log
+ * to indicate it is idle.
+ */
 STATIC void
 xfs_sync_worker(
         struct xfs_mount *mp,
@@ -533,8 +538,15 @@ xfs_sync_worker(
 {
         int             error;
 
-        if (!(mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_RDONLY))
-                error = xfs_sync(mp, SYNC_FSDATA | SYNC_BDFLUSH | SYNC_ATTR);
+        if (!(mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_RDONLY)) {
+                xfs_log_force(mp, (xfs_lsn_t)0, XFS_LOG_FORCE);
+                xfs_finish_reclaim_all(mp, 1, XFS_IFLUSH_DELWRI_ELSE_ASYNC);
+                /* dgc: errors ignored here */
+                error = XFS_QM_DQSYNC(mp, SYNC_BDFLUSH);
+                error = xfs_sync_fsdata(mp, SYNC_BDFLUSH);
+                if (xfs_log_need_covered(mp))
+                        error = xfs_commit_dummy_trans(mp, XFS_LOG_FORCE);
+        }
         mp->m_sync_seq++;
         wake_up(&mp->m_wait_single_sync_task);
 }