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, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/inode.h b/fs/gfs2/inode.h
index 8d90e0c..276e7b5 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/inode.h
+++ b/fs/gfs2/inode.h
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ extern int gfs2_inode_refresh(struct gfs2_inode *ip);
 extern struct inode *gfs2_lookupi(struct inode *dir, const struct qstr *name,
 				  int is_root);
 extern int gfs2_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask);
-extern int gfs2_setattr_simple(struct gfs2_inode *ip, struct iattr *attr);
+extern int gfs2_setattr_simple(struct inode *inode, struct iattr *attr);
 extern struct inode *gfs2_lookup_simple(struct inode *dip, const char *name);
 extern void gfs2_dinode_out(const struct gfs2_inode *ip, void *buf);