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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 4/4] gfs2: convert to errseq_t based writeback error reporting for fsync
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On Wed, 2017-07-26 at 12:21 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 01:55:38PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > @@ -668,12 +668,14 @@ static int gfs2_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end,
> > if (ret)
> > return ret;
> > if (gfs2_is_jdata(ip))
> > - filemap_write_and_wait(mapping);
> > + ret = file_write_and_wait(file);
> > + if (ret)
> > + return ret;
> > gfs2_ail_flush(ip->i_gl, 1);
> > }
>
> Do we want to skip flushing the AIL if there was an error (possibly
> previously encountered)? I'd think we'd want to flush the AIL then report
> the error, like this:
>

I wondered about that. Note that earlier in the function, we also bail
out without flushing the AIL if sync_inode_metadata fails, so I assumed
that we'd want to do the same here.

I could definitely be wrong and am fine with changing it if so.
Discarding the error like we do today seems wrong though.

Bob, thoughts?


> if (gfs2_is_jdata(ip))
> - filemap_write_and_wait(mapping);
> + ret = file_write_and_wait(file);
> gfs2_ail_flush(ip->i_gl, 1);
> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
> }
--
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>

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