overlayfs syncs all inode pages on sync_filesystem(), but it also
needs to call s_op->sync_fs() of upper fs for metadata sync.
This fixes correctness of syncfs(2) as demonstrated by following
xfs specific test:
xfs_sync_stats()
{
echo $1
echo -n "xfs_log_force = "
grep log /proc/fs/xfs/stat | awk '{ print $5 }'
}
xfs_sync_stats "before touch"
touch x
xfs_sync_stats "after touch"
xfs_io -c syncfs .
xfs_sync_stats "after syncfs"
xfs_io -c fsync x
xfs_sync_stats "after fsync"
xfs_io -c fsync x
xfs_sync_stats "after fsync #2"
When this test is run in overlay mount over xfs, log force
count does not increase with syncfs command.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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