From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org, amir73il@gmail.com,
sargun@sargun.me, miklos@szeredi.hu, willy@infradead.org,
jack@suse.cz, neilb@suse.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] vfs: Add a super block operation to check for writeback errors
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 14:41:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210104194155.GE63879@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3b488048b666f22108e7660eb32e10860a75784a.camel@kernel.org>
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 07:48:52AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-12-21 at 14:50 -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > Right now we check for errors on super block in syncfs().
> >
> > ret2 = errseq_check_and_advance(&sb->s_wb_err, &f.file->f_sb_err);
> >
> > overlayfs does not update sb->s_wb_err and it is tracked on upper filesystem.
> > So provide a superblock operation to check errors so that filesystem
> > can provide override generic method and provide its own method to
> > check for writeback errors.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
> > ---
> > fs/sync.c | 5 ++++-
> > include/linux/fs.h | 1 +
> > 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c
> > index b5fb83a734cd..57e43a16dfca 100644
> > --- a/fs/sync.c
> > +++ b/fs/sync.c
> > @@ -176,7 +176,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(syncfs, int, fd)
> > ret = sync_filesystem(sb);
> > up_read(&sb->s_umount);
> >
> >
> > - ret2 = errseq_check_and_advance(&sb->s_wb_err, &f.file->f_sb_err);
> > + if (sb->s_op->errseq_check_advance)
> > + ret2 = sb->s_op->errseq_check_advance(sb, f.file);
> > + else
> > + ret2 = errseq_check_and_advance(&sb->s_wb_err, &f.file->f_sb_err);
> >
> >
> > fdput(f);
> > return ret ? ret : ret2;
> > diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
> > index 8667d0cdc71e..4297b6127adf 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/fs.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
> > @@ -1965,6 +1965,7 @@ struct super_operations {
> > struct shrink_control *);
> > long (*free_cached_objects)(struct super_block *,
> > struct shrink_control *);
> > + int (*errseq_check_advance)(struct super_block *, struct file *);
> > };
> >
> >
> > /*
>
> Also, the other super_operations generally don't take a superblock
> pointer when you pass in a different fs object pointer. This should
> probably just take a struct file * and then the operation can chase
> pointers to the superblock from there.
Ok, I will drop super_block * argument and just pass in "struct file *".
Vivek
>
> --
> Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-04 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-21 19:50 [RFC PATCH 0/3][v3] vfs, overlayfs: Fix syncfs() to return correct errors Vivek Goyal
2020-12-21 19:50 ` [PATCH 1/3] vfs: Do not ignore return code from s_op->sync_fs Vivek Goyal
2020-12-22 1:23 ` NeilBrown
2020-12-22 15:17 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-12-21 19:50 ` [PATCH 2/3] vfs: Add a super block operation to check for writeback errors Vivek Goyal
2020-12-22 16:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-22 16:25 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-12-23 12:44 ` Jeff Layton
2020-12-23 12:48 ` Jeff Layton
2021-01-04 19:41 ` Vivek Goyal [this message]
2020-12-21 19:50 ` [PATCH 3/3] overlayfs: Report writeback errors on upper Vivek Goyal
2020-12-22 16:20 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-22 16:29 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-12-22 17:46 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-22 17:55 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-12-23 12:53 ` Jeff Layton
2020-12-23 18:20 ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-12-23 18:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-23 19:29 ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-12-23 20:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-23 20:21 ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-12-23 20:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-24 9:32 ` Amir Goldstein
2020-12-24 10:12 ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-12-24 12:13 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-25 6:50 ` Amir Goldstein
2020-12-28 13:25 ` Jeff Layton
2020-12-28 15:51 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-01-04 15:51 ` Vivek Goyal
2020-12-28 15:56 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-28 17:26 ` Jeff Layton
2020-12-28 19:25 ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-12-28 19:37 ` Amir Goldstein
2020-12-28 20:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-01-02 13:25 ` Jeff Layton
2021-01-04 16:59 ` Vivek Goyal
2021-01-04 15:14 ` Vivek Goyal
2021-01-04 15:22 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-01-04 15:40 ` Vivek Goyal
2021-01-04 21:42 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-01-04 22:44 ` Vivek Goyal
2021-01-05 7:11 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-01-05 16:26 ` Vivek Goyal
2021-01-05 16:57 ` Amir Goldstein
2020-12-23 19:00 ` Jeff Layton
2021-01-04 20:00 ` Vivek Goyal
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