android_kernel_samsung_msm8976/block
NeilBrown 93b270f76e Fix over-zealous flush_disk when changing device size.
There are two cases when we call flush_disk.
In one, the device has disappeared (check_disk_change) so any
data will hold becomes irrelevant.
In the oter, the device has changed size (check_disk_size_change)
so data we hold may be irrelevant.

In both cases it makes sense to discard any 'clean' buffers,
so they will be read back from the device if needed.

In the former case it makes sense to discard 'dirty' buffers
as there will never be anywhere safe to write the data.  In the
second case it *does*not* make sense to discard dirty buffers
as that will lead to file system corruption when you simply enlarge
the containing devices.

flush_disk calls __invalidate_devices.
__invalidate_device calls both invalidate_inodes and invalidate_bdev.

invalidate_inodes *does* discard I_DIRTY inodes and this does lead
to fs corruption.

invalidate_bev *does*not* discard dirty pages, but I don't really care
about that at present.

So this patch adds a flag to __invalidate_device (calling it
__invalidate_device2) to indicate whether dirty buffers should be
killed, and this is passed to invalidate_inodes which can choose to
skip dirty inodes.

flusk_disk then passes true from check_disk_change and false from
check_disk_size_change.

dm avoids tripping over this problem by calling i_size_write directly
rathher than using check_disk_size_change.

md does use check_disk_size_change and so is affected.

This regression was introduced by commit 608aeef17a which causes
check_disk_size_change to call flush_disk, so it is suitable for any
kernel since 2.6.27.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-02-24 17:25:47 +11:00
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blk-cgroup.c blk-cgroup: Allow creation of hierarchical cgroups 2010-11-15 19:37:36 +01:00
blk-cgroup.h blkio-throttle: limit max iops value to UINT_MAX 2010-10-01 21:16:41 +02:00
blk-core.c block: add internal hd part table references 2011-01-07 08:43:37 +01:00
blk-exec.c block: Prevent hang_check firing during long I/O 2010-09-24 15:52:09 +02:00
blk-flush.c block: remove BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT 2010-09-16 20:52:58 +02:00
blk-integrity.c block: Fix double free in blk_integrity_unregister 2010-10-15 15:49:18 +02:00
blk-ioc.c block: Clean up exit_io_context() source code. 2010-12-21 15:07:45 +01:00
blk-iopoll.c tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place 2009-12-04 15:39:55 +01:00
blk-lib.c block: remove BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT 2010-09-16 20:52:58 +02:00
blk-map.c block: check for proper length of iov entries earlier in blk_rq_map_user_iov() 2010-11-29 10:04:50 +01:00
blk-merge.c Merge branch 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2011-01-13 10:45:01 -08:00
blk-settings.c block: max hardware sectors limit wrapper 2010-12-17 08:36:01 +01:00
blk-softirq.c generic-ipi: remove CSD_FLAG_WAIT 2009-02-25 14:13:44 +01:00
blk-sysfs.c block: Deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use queue_limits instead 2010-12-17 08:35:53 +01:00
blk-tag.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
blk-throttle.c blk-throttle: Correct the placement of smp_rmb() 2010-12-01 19:34:52 +01:00
blk-timeout.c block: ensure jiffies wrap is handled correctly in blk_rq_timed_out_timer 2010-04-21 17:42:08 +02:00
blk.h Revert "block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges" 2010-10-24 22:06:02 +02:00
bsg.c [SCSI] bsg: correct fault if queue object removed while dev_t open 2010-12-09 09:41:14 -06:00
cfq-iosched.c block cfq: compensate preempted queue even if it has no slice assigned 2011-01-14 08:41:03 +01:00
cfq.h blk-cgroup: Prepare the base for supporting more than one IO control policies 2010-09-16 08:42:04 +02:00
compat_ioctl.c BKL: remove extraneous #include <smp_lock.h> 2010-11-17 08:59:32 -08:00
deadline-iosched.c block: convert to pos and nr_sectors accessors 2009-05-11 09:50:54 +02:00
elevator.c block: remove REQ_HARDBARRIER 2010-11-10 14:54:09 +01:00
genhd.c Fix over-zealous flush_disk when changing device size. 2011-02-24 17:25:47 +11:00
ioctl.c Merge branch 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2011-01-13 10:45:01 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT 2011-01-20 17:02:05 -08:00
Kconfig.iosched blk-cgroup: config options re-arrangement 2010-04-26 19:27:56 +02:00
Makefile Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2010-10-22 17:07:18 -07:00
noop-iosched.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
scsi_ioctl.c block: take care not to overflow when calculating total iov length 2010-11-10 14:40:42 +01:00