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authorChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>2011-08-02 16:14:02 -0400
committerChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>2011-08-02 16:14:02 -0400
commit3d071cd313643cf82b1ce1ce4fdf08d63ad53964 (patch)
tree874c1683f32f07614aa123f6ca5cf6c2bd443704 /fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
parentcf8e98d15361f8c594da00a3f7a500787fc1a426 (diff)
parent02f8c6aee8df3cdc935e9bdd4f2d020306035dbe (diff)
Merge tag 'v3.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into for-linus
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/xfs_log.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/xfs_log.c11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
index 211930246f20..41d5b8f2bf92 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
@@ -1372,8 +1372,17 @@ xlog_sync(xlog_t *log,
XFS_BUF_ASYNC(bp);
bp->b_flags |= XBF_LOG_BUFFER;
- if (log->l_mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_BARRIER)
+ if (log->l_mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_BARRIER) {
+ /*
+ * If we have an external log device, flush the data device
+ * before flushing the log to make sure all meta data
+ * written back from the AIL actually made it to disk
+ * before writing out the new log tail LSN in the log buffer.
+ */
+ if (log->l_mp->m_logdev_targp != log->l_mp->m_ddev_targp)
+ xfs_blkdev_issue_flush(log->l_mp->m_ddev_targp);
XFS_BUF_ORDERED(bp);
+ }
ASSERT(XFS_BUF_ADDR(bp) <= log->l_logBBsize-1);
ASSERT(XFS_BUF_ADDR(bp) + BTOBB(count) <= log->l_logBBsize);