From 61e63ecb577f9b56bfb3182f1215b64e37a12c38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Chinner Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:10:31 +1100 Subject: xfs: consolidate superblock logging functions We now have several superblock loggin functions that are identical except for the transaction reservation and whether it shoul dbe a synchronous transaction or not. Consolidate these all into a single function, a single reserveration and a sync flag and call it xfs_sync_sb(). Also, xfs_mod_sb() is not really a modification function - it's the operation of logging the superblock buffer. hence change the name of it to reflect this. Note that we have to change the mp->m_update_flags that are passed around at mount time to a boolean simply to indicate a superblock update is needed. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Reviewed-by: Brian Foster Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner --- fs/xfs/xfs_log.c | 18 +++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/xfs/xfs_log.c') diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c index e408bf5a3ff7..2b8dcf2b3dd1 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ #include "xfs_fsops.h" #include "xfs_cksum.h" #include "xfs_sysfs.h" +#include "xfs_sb.h" kmem_zone_t *xfs_log_ticket_zone; @@ -1290,9 +1291,20 @@ xfs_log_worker( struct xfs_mount *mp = log->l_mp; /* dgc: errors ignored - not fatal and nowhere to report them */ - if (xfs_log_need_covered(mp)) - xfs_fs_log_dummy(mp); - else + if (xfs_log_need_covered(mp)) { + /* + * Dump a transaction into the log that contains no real change. + * This is needed to stamp the current tail LSN into the log + * during the covering operation. + * + * We cannot use an inode here for this - that will push dirty + * state back up into the VFS and then periodic inode flushing + * will prevent log covering from making progress. Hence we + * synchronously log the superblock instead to ensure the + * superblock is immediately unpinned and can be written back. + */ + xfs_sync_sb(mp, true); + } else xfs_log_force(mp, 0); /* start pushing all the metadata that is currently dirty */ -- cgit v1.2.3