ext4: do not ask jbd2 to write data for delalloc buffers

Currently we ask jbd2 to write all dirty allocated buffers before
committing a transaction when doing writeback of delay allocated blocks.
However this is unnecessary since we move all pages to writeback state
before dropping a transaction handle and then submit all the necessary
IO. We still need the transaction commit to wait for all the outstanding
writeback before flushing disk caches during transaction commit to avoid
data exposure issues though. Use the new jbd2 capability and ask it to
only wait for outstanding writeback during transaction commit when
writing back data in ext4_writepages().

Tested-by: "HUANG Weller (CM/ESW12-CN)" <Weller.Huang@cn.bosch.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
This commit is contained in:
Jan Kara
2016-04-24 00:56:08 -04:00
committed by Theodore Ts'o
parent 41617e1a8d
commit ee0876bc69
4 changed files with 22 additions and 5 deletions

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@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ data_copy:
/* Even in case of data=writeback it is reasonable to pin
* inode to transaction, to prevent unexpected data loss */
*err = ext4_jbd2_file_inode(handle, orig_inode);
*err = ext4_jbd2_inode_add_write(handle, orig_inode);
unlock_pages:
unlock_page(pagep[0]);