[XFS] Start writeout earlier (on last close) in the case where we have a
truncate down followed by delayed allocation (buffered writes) - worst
case scenario for the notorious NULL files problem. This reduces the
window where we are exposed to that problem significantly.
SGI-PV: 917976
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:26100a
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
index 5835e69..c0a9043 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
@@ -1157,6 +1157,18 @@
return error;
}
+STATIC int
+xfs_vm_writepages(
+ struct address_space *mapping,
+ struct writeback_control *wbc)
+{
+ struct vnode *vp = vn_from_inode(mapping->host);
+
+ if (VN_TRUNC(vp))
+ VUNTRUNCATE(vp);
+ return generic_writepages(mapping, wbc);
+}
+
/*
* Called to move a page into cleanable state - and from there
* to be released. Possibly the page is already clean. We always
@@ -1451,6 +1463,7 @@
.readpage = xfs_vm_readpage,
.readpages = xfs_vm_readpages,
.writepage = xfs_vm_writepage,
+ .writepages = xfs_vm_writepages,
.sync_page = block_sync_page,
.releasepage = xfs_vm_releasepage,
.invalidatepage = xfs_vm_invalidatepage,
