We do need a barrier for the first buffer of a split log write. Otherwise
we might incorrectly stamp the tail LSN into transactions in the first
block, or not flush data I/O before updating the inode size.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Index: xfs-dev/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
===================================================================
--- xfs-dev.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c 2010-06-28 11:51:30.423004228 +0200
+++ xfs-dev/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c 2010-06-28 11:52:52.559255519 +0200
@@ -1423,11 +1423,8 @@ xlog_sync(xlog_t *log,
XFS_BUF_BUSY(bp);
XFS_BUF_ASYNC(bp);
bp->b_flags |= XBF_LOG_BUFFER;
- /*
- * Do an ordered write for the log block.
- * Its unnecessary to flush the first split block in the log wrap case.
- */
- if (!split && (log->l_mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_BARRIER))
+
+ if (log->l_mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_BARRIER)
XFS_BUF_ORDERED(bp);
ASSERT(XFS_BUF_ADDR(bp) <= log->l_logBBsize-1);
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