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authorSaugata Das <saugata.das@linaro.org>2012-05-17 02:21:30 +0000
committerVenkatraman S <svenkatr@ti.com>2012-08-21 13:57:27 +0530
commite6ab4ea62ac9d5831e0357a7f064ecf5d671a2e6 (patch)
treeb8be01a1cdb1accb5524cdfb6463c4bf46fedd8d
parenta8dac16b0f0aaa07604b52712d611034dee40e1f (diff)
Today, storage devices like eMMC has special features like data tagging (introduced in MMC-4.5 version) in order to improve performance of some specific writes. On MMC stack, data tagging is used for all writes which has REQ_META flag set. On EXT4, however, currently REQ_META is set only for read. This patch adds the capability mark a meta-data buffer with set_buffer_meta during meta data write. During submit_bh, this information is used to set REQ_META flag. Signed-off-by: Saugata Das <saugata.das@linaro.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c4
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/inode.c4
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c
index bfa65b49d424..5f1d318e8689 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c
@@ -107,6 +107,8 @@ int __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(const char *where, unsigned int line,
{
int err = 0;
+ set_buffer_meta(bh);
+
if (ext4_handle_valid(handle)) {
err = jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, bh);
if (err) {
@@ -143,6 +145,8 @@ int __ext4_handle_dirty_super(const char *where, unsigned int line,
struct buffer_head *bh = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_sbh;
int err = 0;
+ set_buffer_meta(bh);
+
if (ext4_handle_valid(handle)) {
ext4_superblock_csum_set(sb,
(struct ext4_super_block *)bh->b_data);
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index dff171c3a123..05bb71f78012 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -4221,8 +4221,10 @@ int ext4_write_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc)
err = __ext4_get_inode_loc(inode, &iloc, 0);
if (err)
return err;
- if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL)
+ if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) {
+ set_buffer_meta(iloc.bh);
sync_dirty_buffer(iloc.bh);
+ }
if (buffer_req(iloc.bh) && !buffer_uptodate(iloc.bh)) {
EXT4_ERROR_INODE_BLOCK(inode, iloc.bh->b_blocknr,
"IO error syncing inode");