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, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/xattr.c b/fs/gfs2/xattr.c
index 439b61c0..695304c 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/xattr.c
@@ -1296,7 +1296,8 @@ fail:
 
 int gfs2_xattr_acl_chmod(struct gfs2_inode *ip, struct iattr *attr, char *data)
 {
-	struct gfs2_sbd *sdp = GFS2_SB(&ip->i_inode);
+	struct inode *inode = &ip->i_inode;
+	struct gfs2_sbd *sdp = GFS2_SB(inode);
 	struct gfs2_ea_location el;
 	int error;
 
@@ -1319,7 +1320,7 @@ int gfs2_xattr_acl_chmod(struct gfs2_inode *ip, struct iattr *attr, char *data)
 	if (error)
 		return error;
 
-	error = gfs2_setattr_simple(ip, attr);
+	error = gfs2_setattr_simple(inode, attr);
 	gfs2_trans_end(sdp);
 	return error;
 }