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authorLi Dongyang <dongyangli@ddn.com>2018-09-15 17:11:25 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2018-09-15 17:11:25 -0400
commitfe18d649891d813964d3aaeebad873f281627fbc (patch)
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parent338affb548c243d2af25b1ca628e67819350de6b (diff)
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ext4: don't mark mmp buffer head dirty
Marking mmp bh dirty before writing it will make writeback pick up mmp block later and submit a write, we don't want the duplicate write as kmmpd thread should have full control of reading and writing the mmp block. Another reason is we will also have random I/O error on the writeback request when blk integrity is enabled, because kmmpd could modify the content of the mmp block(e.g. setting new seq and time) while the mmp block is under I/O requested by writeback. Signed-off-by: Li Dongyang <dongyangli@ddn.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/mmp.c1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mmp.c b/fs/ext4/mmp.c
index 39b07c2..2305b43 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mmp.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mmp.c
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ static int write_mmp_block(struct super_block *sb, struct buffer_head *bh)
*/
sb_start_write(sb);
ext4_mmp_csum_set(sb, mmp);
- mark_buffer_dirty(bh);
lock_buffer(bh);
bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_write_sync;
get_bh(bh);
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