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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/xfs_log.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/xfs_log.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c index e408bf5a3ff7..2b8dcf2b3dd1 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ #include "xfs_fsops.h" #include "xfs_cksum.h" #include "xfs_sysfs.h" +#include "xfs_sb.h" kmem_zone_t *xfs_log_ticket_zone; @@ -1290,9 +1291,20 @@ xfs_log_worker( struct xfs_mount *mp = log->l_mp; /* dgc: errors ignored - not fatal and nowhere to report them */ - if (xfs_log_need_covered(mp)) - xfs_fs_log_dummy(mp); - else + if (xfs_log_need_covered(mp)) { + /* + * Dump a transaction into the log that contains no real change. + * This is needed to stamp the current tail LSN into the log + * during the covering operation. + * + * We cannot use an inode here for this - that will push dirty + * state back up into the VFS and then periodic inode flushing + * will prevent log covering from making progress. Hence we + * synchronously log the superblock instead to ensure the + * superblock is immediately unpinned and can be written back. + */ + xfs_sync_sb(mp, true); + } else xfs_log_force(mp, 0); /* start pushing all the metadata that is currently dirty */ |