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From: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
	 Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Chris Mason <mason@kernel.org>,
	 Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@mykernel.net>,
	linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org,  linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 Chengguang Xu <charliecgxu@tencent.com>,
	Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 2/8] ovl: setup overlayfs' private bdi
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2026 13:36:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261106-b4-ovl-containerized-sync-v4-2-6ddde0b7dd8a@toxicpanda.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261106-b4-ovl-containerized-sync-v4-0-6ddde0b7dd8a@toxicpanda.com>

From: Chengguang Xu <charliecgxu@tencent.com>

Setup overlayfs' private bdi so that we can collect
overlayfs' own dirty inodes.

Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <charliecgxu@tencent.com>
[josef: only for an overlay that tracks dirty inodes]
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
---
 fs/overlayfs/super.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index 81da70fd53a6..22a8d4eb3b7c 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -1490,6 +1490,16 @@ static int ovl_fill_super_creds(struct fs_context *fc, struct super_block *sb)
 		if (!ofs->workdir)
 			sb->s_flags |= SB_RDONLY;
 
+		/*
+		 * Dirty overlay inodes go on the lists of this bdi.  fsync_mode
+		 * is final once ovl_get_workdir() has returned.
+		 */
+		if (ovl_tracks_dirty(ofs)) {
+			err = super_setup_bdi(sb);
+			if (err)
+				return err;
+		}
+
 		sb->s_stack_depth = upper_sb->s_stack_depth;
 		sb->s_time_gran = upper_sb->s_time_gran;
 	}

-- 
2.55.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-11-06 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-06 13:36 [PATCH v4 0/8] ovl: only sync what was written through the overlay Josef Bacik
2026-11-06 13:36 ` [PATCH v4 1/8] ovl: expand fsync mount options Josef Bacik
2026-11-06 13:36 ` Josef Bacik [this message]
2026-11-06 13:36 ` [PATCH v4 3/8] ovl: make the root inode appear hashed Josef Bacik
2026-11-06 13:36 ` [PATCH v4 4/8] ovl: mark the overlay inode dirty on modification Josef Bacik
2026-11-06 13:36 ` [PATCH v4 5/8] ovl: implement overlayfs' own ->write_inode operation Josef Bacik
2026-11-06 13:36 ` [PATCH v4 6/8] ovl: cache dirty overlayfs' inode Josef Bacik
2026-11-06 13:36 ` [PATCH v4 7/8] ovl: handle lazytime on the upper filesystem Josef Bacik
2026-11-06 13:36 ` [PATCH v4 8/8] ovl: implement containerized syncfs for overlayfs Josef Bacik

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