hfsplus: make sure sync writes out all metadata
authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@tuxera.com>
Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:37:57 +0000 (14:37 +0100)
committerChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:37:57 +0000 (14:37 +0100)
hfsplus stores all metadata except for the volume headers in special
inodes.  While these are marked hashed and periodically written out
by the flusher threads, we can't rely on that for sync.  For the case
of a data integrity sync the VM has life-lock avoidance code that
avoids writing inodes again that are redirtied during the sync,
which is something that can happen easily for hfsplus.  So make sure
we explicitly write out the metadata inodes at the beginning of
hfsplus_sync_fs.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@tuxera.com>
fs/hfsplus/super.c

index fe8f7bf..df6bea0 100644 (file)
@@ -164,6 +164,22 @@ int hfsplus_sync_fs(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
 
        sb->s_dirt = 0;
 
+       /*
+        * Explicitly write out the special metadata inodes.
+        *
+        * While these special inodes are marked as hashed and written
+        * out peridocically by the flusher threads we redirty them
+        * during writeout of normal inodes, and thus the life lock
+        * prevents us from getting the latest state to disk.
+        */
+       error = filemap_write_and_wait(sbi->cat_tree->inode->i_mapping);
+       error2 = filemap_write_and_wait(sbi->ext_tree->inode->i_mapping);
+       if (!error)
+               error = error2;
+       error2 = filemap_write_and_wait(sbi->alloc_file->i_mapping);
+       if (!error)
+               error = error2;
+
        mutex_lock(&sbi->vh_mutex);
        mutex_lock(&sbi->alloc_mutex);
        vhdr->free_blocks = cpu_to_be32(sbi->free_blocks);
@@ -176,9 +192,11 @@ int hfsplus_sync_fs(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
                write_backup = 1;
        }
 
-       error = hfsplus_submit_bio(sb->s_bdev,
+       error2 = hfsplus_submit_bio(sb->s_bdev,
                                   sbi->part_start + HFSPLUS_VOLHEAD_SECTOR,
                                   sbi->s_vhdr, WRITE_SYNC);
+       if (!error)
+               error = error2;
        if (!write_backup)
                goto out;