loop: support barrier writes
authorNikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:29:54 +0000 (12:29 +0100)
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:35:18 +0000 (12:35 +0100)
Honour barrier requests in the loop back block device driver.
In case of barrier bios, flush the backing file once before processing the
barrier and once after to guarantee ordering. In case of filesystems that
does not support fsync, barrier bios would be failed with -EOPNOTSUPP.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
drivers/block/loop.c

index bf03455..9721d10 100644 (file)
@@ -474,10 +474,35 @@ static int do_bio_filebacked(struct loop_device *lo, struct bio *bio)
        int ret;
 
        pos = ((loff_t) bio->bi_sector << 9) + lo->lo_offset;
-       if (bio_rw(bio) == WRITE)
+
+       if (bio_rw(bio) == WRITE) {
+               int barrier = bio_barrier(bio);
+               struct file *file = lo->lo_backing_file;
+
+               if (barrier) {
+                       if (unlikely(!file->f_op->fsync)) {
+                               ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+                               goto out;
+                       }
+
+                       ret = vfs_fsync(file, file->f_path.dentry, 0);
+                       if (unlikely(ret)) {
+                               ret = -EIO;
+                               goto out;
+                       }
+               }
+
                ret = lo_send(lo, bio, pos);
-       else
+
+               if (barrier && !ret) {
+                       ret = vfs_fsync(file, file->f_path.dentry, 0);
+                       if (unlikely(ret))
+                               ret = -EIO;
+               }
+       } else
                ret = lo_receive(lo, bio, lo->lo_blocksize, pos);
+
+out:
        return ret;
 }
 
@@ -826,6 +851,9 @@ static int loop_set_fd(struct loop_device *lo, fmode_t mode,
        lo->lo_queue->queuedata = lo;
        lo->lo_queue->unplug_fn = loop_unplug;
 
+       if (!(lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_READ_ONLY) && file->f_op->fsync)
+               blk_queue_ordered(lo->lo_queue, QUEUE_ORDERED_DRAIN, NULL);
+
        set_capacity(lo->lo_disk, size);
        bd_set_size(bdev, size << 9);