GFS2: Use ->dirty_inode()

The aim of this patch is to use the newly enhanced ->dirty_inode()
super block operation to deal with atime updates, rather than
piggy backing that code into ->write_inode() as is currently
done.

The net result is a simplification of the code in various places
and a reduction of the number of gfs2_dinode_out() calls since
this is now implied by ->dirty_inode().

Some of the mark_inode_dirty() calls have been moved under glocks
in order to take advantage of then being able to avoid locking in
->dirty_inode() when we already have suitable locks.

One consequence is that generic_write_end() now correctly deals
with file size updates, so that we do not need a separate check
for that afterwards. This also, indirectly, means that fdatasync
should work correctly on GFS2 - the current code always syncs the
metadata whether it needs to or not.

Has survived testing with postmark (with and without atime) and
also fsx.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/aops.c b/fs/gfs2/aops.c
index f9fbbe9..212fe74 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/aops.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/aops.c
@@ -787,7 +787,6 @@ static int gfs2_stuffed_write_end(struct inode *inode, struct buffer_head *dibh,
 	u64 to = pos + copied;
 	void *kaddr;
 	unsigned char *buf = dibh->b_data + sizeof(struct gfs2_dinode);
-	struct gfs2_dinode *di = (struct gfs2_dinode *)dibh->b_data;
 
 	BUG_ON((pos + len) > (dibh->b_size - sizeof(struct gfs2_dinode)));
 	kaddr = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0);
@@ -804,7 +803,6 @@ static int gfs2_stuffed_write_end(struct inode *inode, struct buffer_head *dibh,
 	if (copied) {
 		if (inode->i_size < to)
 			i_size_write(inode, to);
-		gfs2_dinode_out(ip, di);
 		mark_inode_dirty(inode);
 	}
 
@@ -873,10 +871,6 @@ static int gfs2_write_end(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
 		gfs2_page_add_databufs(ip, page, from, to);
 
 	ret = generic_write_end(file, mapping, pos, len, copied, page, fsdata);
-	if (ret > 0) {
-		gfs2_dinode_out(ip, dibh->b_data);
-		mark_inode_dirty(inode);
-	}
 
 	if (inode == sdp->sd_rindex) {
 		adjust_fs_space(inode);