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jbd: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
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Switch to the WRITE_FLUSH_FUA flag for journal commits and remove the
EOPNOTSUPP detection for barriers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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Christoph Hellwig authored and Jens Axboe committed Sep 10, 2010
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30 changes: 3 additions & 27 deletions fs/jbd/commit.c
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Expand Up @@ -137,34 +137,10 @@ static int journal_write_commit_record(journal_t *journal,
JBUFFER_TRACE(descriptor, "write commit block");
set_buffer_dirty(bh);

if (journal->j_flags & JFS_BARRIER) {
ret = __sync_dirty_buffer(bh, WRITE_SYNC | WRITE_BARRIER);

/*
* Is it possible for another commit to fail at roughly
* the same time as this one? If so, we don't want to
* trust the barrier flag in the super, but instead want
* to remember if we sent a barrier request
*/
if (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP) {
char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];

printk(KERN_WARNING
"JBD: barrier-based sync failed on %s - "
"disabling barriers\n",
bdevname(journal->j_dev, b));
spin_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
journal->j_flags &= ~JFS_BARRIER;
spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);

/* And try again, without the barrier */
set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
set_buffer_dirty(bh);
ret = sync_dirty_buffer(bh);
}
} else {
if (journal->j_flags & JFS_BARRIER)
ret = __sync_dirty_buffer(bh, WRITE_SYNC | WRITE_FLUSH_FUA);
else
ret = sync_dirty_buffer(bh);
}

put_bh(bh); /* One for getblk() */
journal_put_journal_head(descriptor);
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