ocfs2: Flush drive's caches on fdatasync
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Thu, 5 Aug 2010 18:32:45 +0000 (20:32 +0200)
committerTao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>
Wed, 8 Sep 2010 06:25:55 +0000 (14:25 +0800)
When 'barrier' mount option is specified, we have to issue a cache flush
during fdatasync(2). We have to do this even if inode doesn't have
I_DIRTY_DATASYNC set because we still have to get written *data* to disk so
that they are not lost in case of crash.

Acked-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Singed-off-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>
fs/ocfs2/file.c

index 81296b4e364632dd5936f59d8adeab9832f2d2fd..6b2be0f2eacd3f451a00fee1897f415312a88720 100644 (file)
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 #include <linux/writeback.h>
 #include <linux/falloc.h>
 #include <linux/quotaops.h>
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
 
 #define MLOG_MASK_PREFIX ML_INODE
 #include <cluster/masklog.h>
@@ -190,8 +191,16 @@ static int ocfs2_sync_file(struct file *file, int datasync)
        if (err)
                goto bail;
 
-       if (datasync && !(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_DATASYNC))
+       if (datasync && !(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_DATASYNC)) {
+               /*
+                * We still have to flush drive's caches to get data to the
+                * platter
+                */
+               if (osb->s_mount_opt & OCFS2_MOUNT_BARRIER)
+                       blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, GFP_KERNEL,
+                                          NULL, BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT);
                goto bail;
+       }
 
        journal = osb->journal->j_journal;
        err = jbd2_journal_force_commit(journal);