Re: [GFS2] Fix incorrect fs sync behaviour [2/5]

[Russell Cattelan <cattelan@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 11:07 +0000, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> >From 4a221953ed121692aa25998451a57c7f4be8b4f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 09:57:57 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] Fix incorrect fs sync behaviour.
> 
> This adds a sync_fs superblock operation for GFS2 and removes
> the journal flush from write_super in favour of sync_fs where it
> ought to be. This is more or less identical to the way in which ext3
> does this.
> 
> This bug was pointed out by Russell Cattelan <cattelan@redhat.com>
> 
> Cc: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
> ---
>  fs/gfs2/ops_super.c |   44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  1 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/gfs2/ops_super.c b/fs/gfs2/ops_super.c
> index 06f06f7..b47d959 100644
> --- a/fs/gfs2/ops_super.c
> +++ b/fs/gfs2/ops_super.c
> @@ -138,16 +138,27 @@ static void gfs2_put_super(struct super_
>  }
>  
>  /**
> - * gfs2_write_super - disk commit all incore transactions
> - * @sb: the filesystem
> + * gfs2_write_super
> + * @sb: the superblock
>   *
> - * This function is called every time sync(2) is called.
> - * After this exits, all dirty buffers are synced.
>   */
>  
>  static void gfs2_write_super(struct super_block *sb)
>  {
> +	sb->s_dirt = 0;
This is a bit different than my original patch? 
Are you sure we don't need the s_lock here?


> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * gfs2_sync_fs - sync the filesystem
> + * @sb: the superblock
> + *
> + * Flushes the log to disk.
> + */
> +static int gfs2_sync_fs(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
> +{
> +	sb->s_dirt = 0;
>  	gfs2_log_flush(sb->s_fs_info, NULL);
> +	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  /**
> @@ -452,17 +463,18 @@ static void gfs2_destroy_inode(struct in
>  }
>  
>  struct super_operations gfs2_super_ops = {
> -	.alloc_inode = gfs2_alloc_inode,
> -	.destroy_inode = gfs2_destroy_inode,
> -	.write_inode = gfs2_write_inode,
> -	.delete_inode = gfs2_delete_inode,
> -	.put_super = gfs2_put_super,
> -	.write_super = gfs2_write_super,
> -	.write_super_lockfs = gfs2_write_super_lockfs,
> -	.unlockfs = gfs2_unlockfs,
> -	.statfs = gfs2_statfs,
> -	.remount_fs = gfs2_remount_fs,
> -	.clear_inode = gfs2_clear_inode,
> -	.show_options = gfs2_show_options,
> +	.alloc_inode		= gfs2_alloc_inode,
> +	.destroy_inode		= gfs2_destroy_inode,
> +	.write_inode		= gfs2_write_inode,
> +	.delete_inode		= gfs2_delete_inode,
> +	.put_super		= gfs2_put_super,
> +	.write_super		= gfs2_write_super,
> +	.sync_fs		= gfs2_sync_fs,
> +	.write_super_lockfs 	= gfs2_write_super_lockfs,
> +	.unlockfs		= gfs2_unlockfs,
> +	.statfs			= gfs2_statfs,
> +	.remount_fs		= gfs2_remount_fs,
> +	.clear_inode		= gfs2_clear_inode,
> +	.show_options		= gfs2_show_options,
>  };
>  
-- 
Russell Cattelan <cattelan@redhat.com>