ext4: Wait for proper transaction commit on fsync
We cannot rely on buffer dirty bits during fsync because pdflush can come
before fsync is called and clear dirty bits without forcing a transaction
commit. What we do is that we track which transaction has last changed
the inode and which transaction last changed allocation and force it to
disk on fsync.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 4cfc2f0..ab31e65 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -709,6 +709,13 @@
struct list_head i_aio_dio_complete_list;
/* current io_end structure for async DIO write*/
ext4_io_end_t *cur_aio_dio;
+
+ /*
+ * Transactions that contain inode's metadata needed to complete
+ * fsync and fdatasync, respectively.
+ */
+ tid_t i_sync_tid;
+ tid_t i_datasync_tid;
};
/*