Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs

* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
  xfs: make log devices with write back caches work
  xfs: fix ->mknod() return value on xfs_get_acl() failure

fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c

@@ -131,19 +131,34 @@ xfs_file_fsync(
 {
 	struct inode		*inode = file->f_mapping->host;
 	struct xfs_inode	*ip = XFS_I(inode);
+	struct xfs_mount	*mp = ip->i_mount;
 	struct xfs_trans	*tp;
 	int			error = 0;
 	int			log_flushed = 0;
 
 	trace_xfs_file_fsync(ip);
 
-	if (XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(ip->i_mount))
+	if (XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(mp))
 		return -XFS_ERROR(EIO);
 
 	xfs_iflags_clear(ip, XFS_ITRUNCATED);
 
 	xfs_ioend_wait(ip);
 
+	if (mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_BARRIER) {
+		/*
+		 * If we have an RT and/or log subvolume we need to make sure
+		 * to flush the write cache the device used for file data
+		 * first.  This is to ensure newly written file data make
+		 * it to disk before logging the new inode size in case of
+		 * an extending write.
+		 */
+		if (XFS_IS_REALTIME_INODE(ip))
+			xfs_blkdev_issue_flush(mp->m_rtdev_targp);
+		else if (mp->m_logdev_targp != mp->m_ddev_targp)
+			xfs_blkdev_issue_flush(mp->m_ddev_targp);
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * We always need to make sure that the required inode state is safe on
 	 * disk.  The inode might be clean but we still might need to force the
@@ -175,9 +190,9 @@ xfs_file_fsync(
 		 * updates.  The sync transaction will also force the log.
 		 */
 		xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
-		tp = xfs_trans_alloc(ip->i_mount, XFS_TRANS_FSYNC_TS);
+		tp = xfs_trans_alloc(mp, XFS_TRANS_FSYNC_TS);
 		error = xfs_trans_reserve(tp, 0,
-				XFS_FSYNC_TS_LOG_RES(ip->i_mount), 0, 0, 0);
+				XFS_FSYNC_TS_LOG_RES(mp), 0, 0, 0);
 		if (error) {
 			xfs_trans_cancel(tp, 0);
 			return -error;
@@ -209,28 +224,25 @@ xfs_file_fsync(
 		 * force the log.
 		 */
 		if (xfs_ipincount(ip)) {
-			error = _xfs_log_force_lsn(ip->i_mount,
+			error = _xfs_log_force_lsn(mp,
 					ip->i_itemp->ili_last_lsn,
 					XFS_LOG_SYNC, &log_flushed);
 		}
 		xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
 	}
 
-	if (ip->i_mount->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_BARRIER) {
-		/*
-		 * If the log write didn't issue an ordered tag we need
-		 * to flush the disk cache for the data device now.
-		 */
-		if (!log_flushed)
-			xfs_blkdev_issue_flush(ip->i_mount->m_ddev_targp);
-
 	/*
-		 * If this inode is on the RT dev we need to flush that
-		 * cache as well.
+	 * If we only have a single device, and the log force about was
+	 * a no-op we might have to flush the data device cache here.
+	 * This can only happen for fdatasync/O_DSYNC if we were overwriting
+	 * an already allocated file and thus do not have any metadata to
+	 * commit.
 	 */
-		if (XFS_IS_REALTIME_INODE(ip))
-			xfs_blkdev_issue_flush(ip->i_mount->m_rtdev_targp);
-	}
+	if ((mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_BARRIER) &&
+	    mp->m_logdev_targp == mp->m_ddev_targp &&
+	    !XFS_IS_REALTIME_INODE(ip) &&
+	    !log_flushed)
+		xfs_blkdev_issue_flush(mp->m_ddev_targp);
 
 	return -error;
 }

fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c

@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ xfs_vn_mknod(
 	if (IS_POSIXACL(dir)) {
 		default_acl = xfs_get_acl(dir, ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT);
 		if (IS_ERR(default_acl))
-			return -PTR_ERR(default_acl);
+			return PTR_ERR(default_acl);
 
 		if (!default_acl)
 			mode &= ~current_umask();

fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c

@@ -627,68 +627,6 @@ xfs_blkdev_put(
 		blkdev_put(bdev, FMODE_READ|FMODE_WRITE|FMODE_EXCL);
 }
 
-/*
- * Try to write out the superblock using barriers.
- */
-STATIC int
-xfs_barrier_test(
-	xfs_mount_t	*mp)
-{
-	xfs_buf_t	*sbp = xfs_getsb(mp, 0);
-	int		error;
-
-	XFS_BUF_UNDONE(sbp);
-	XFS_BUF_UNREAD(sbp);
-	XFS_BUF_UNDELAYWRITE(sbp);
-	XFS_BUF_WRITE(sbp);
-	XFS_BUF_UNASYNC(sbp);
-	XFS_BUF_ORDERED(sbp);
-
-	xfsbdstrat(mp, sbp);
-	error = xfs_buf_iowait(sbp);
-
-	/*
-	 * Clear all the flags we set and possible error state in the
-	 * buffer.  We only did the write to try out whether barriers
-	 * worked and shouldn't leave any traces in the superblock
-	 * buffer.
-	 */
-	XFS_BUF_DONE(sbp);
-	XFS_BUF_ERROR(sbp, 0);
-	XFS_BUF_UNORDERED(sbp);
-
-	xfs_buf_relse(sbp);
-	return error;
-}
-
-STATIC void
-xfs_mountfs_check_barriers(xfs_mount_t *mp)
-{
-	int error;
-
-	if (mp->m_logdev_targp != mp->m_ddev_targp) {
-		xfs_notice(mp,
-		  "Disabling barriers, not supported with external log device");
-		mp->m_flags &= ~XFS_MOUNT_BARRIER;
-		return;
-	}
-
-	if (xfs_readonly_buftarg(mp->m_ddev_targp)) {
-		xfs_notice(mp,
-			"Disabling barriers, underlying device is readonly");
-		mp->m_flags &= ~XFS_MOUNT_BARRIER;
-		return;
-	}
-
-	error = xfs_barrier_test(mp);
-	if (error) {
-		xfs_notice(mp,
-			"Disabling barriers, trial barrier write failed");
-		mp->m_flags &= ~XFS_MOUNT_BARRIER;
-		return;
-	}
-}
-
 void
 xfs_blkdev_issue_flush(
 	xfs_buftarg_t		*buftarg)
@@ -1240,14 +1178,6 @@ xfs_fs_remount(
 		switch (token) {
 		case Opt_barrier:
 			mp->m_flags |= XFS_MOUNT_BARRIER;
-
-			/*
-			 * Test if barriers are actually working if we can,
-			 * else delay this check until the filesystem is
-			 * marked writeable.
-			 */
-			if (!(mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_RDONLY))
-				xfs_mountfs_check_barriers(mp);
 			break;
 		case Opt_nobarrier:
 			mp->m_flags &= ~XFS_MOUNT_BARRIER;
@@ -1282,8 +1212,6 @@ xfs_fs_remount(
 	/* ro -> rw */
 	if ((mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_RDONLY) && !(*flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
 		mp->m_flags &= ~XFS_MOUNT_RDONLY;
-		if (mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_BARRIER)
-			xfs_mountfs_check_barriers(mp);
 
 		/*
 		 * If this is the first remount to writeable state we
@@ -1465,9 +1393,6 @@ xfs_fs_fill_super(
 	if (error)
 		goto out_free_sb;
 
-	if (mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_BARRIER)
-		xfs_mountfs_check_barriers(mp);
-
 	error = xfs_filestream_mount(mp);
 	if (error)
 		goto out_free_sb;

fs/xfs/xfs_log.c

@@ -1372,8 +1372,17 @@ xlog_sync(xlog_t		*log,
 	XFS_BUF_ASYNC(bp);
 	bp->b_flags |= XBF_LOG_BUFFER;
 
-	if (log->l_mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_BARRIER)
+	if (log->l_mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_BARRIER) {
+		/*
+		 * If we have an external log device, flush the data device
+		 * before flushing the log to make sure all meta data
+		 * written back from the AIL actually made it to disk
+		 * before writing out the new log tail LSN in the log buffer.
+		 */
+		if (log->l_mp->m_logdev_targp != log->l_mp->m_ddev_targp)
+			xfs_blkdev_issue_flush(log->l_mp->m_ddev_targp);
 		XFS_BUF_ORDERED(bp);
+	}
 
 	ASSERT(XFS_BUF_ADDR(bp) <= log->l_logBBsize-1);
 	ASSERT(XFS_BUF_ADDR(bp) + BTOBB(count) <= log->l_logBBsize);