Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core

Merge reason: This brach was on -rc1, refresh it to almost-rc4 to pick up
              the latest upstream fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 55 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 6e35762b616..b3e5be7514f 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ still_busy:
  * Completion handler for block_write_full_page() - pages which are unlocked
  * during I/O, and which have PageWriteback cleared upon I/O completion.
  */
-static void end_buffer_async_write(struct buffer_head *bh, int uptodate)
+void end_buffer_async_write(struct buffer_head *bh, int uptodate)
 {
 	char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
 	unsigned long flags;
@@ -438,11 +438,17 @@ static void mark_buffer_async_read(struct buffer_head *bh)
 	set_buffer_async_read(bh);
 }
 
-void mark_buffer_async_write(struct buffer_head *bh)
+void mark_buffer_async_write_endio(struct buffer_head *bh,
+				   bh_end_io_t *handler)
 {
-	bh->b_end_io = end_buffer_async_write;
+	bh->b_end_io = handler;
 	set_buffer_async_write(bh);
 }
+
+void mark_buffer_async_write(struct buffer_head *bh)
+{
+	mark_buffer_async_write_endio(bh, end_buffer_async_write);
+}
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mark_buffer_async_write);
 
 
@@ -547,7 +553,7 @@ repeat:
 	return err;
 }
 
-void do_thaw_all(unsigned long unused)
+void do_thaw_all(struct work_struct *work)
 {
 	struct super_block *sb;
 	char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
@@ -567,6 +573,7 @@ restart:
 			goto restart;
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
+	kfree(work);
 	printk(KERN_WARNING "Emergency Thaw complete\n");
 }
 
@@ -577,7 +584,13 @@ restart:
  */
 void emergency_thaw_all(void)
 {
-	pdflush_operation(do_thaw_all, 0);
+	struct work_struct *work;
+
+	work = kmalloc(sizeof(*work), GFP_ATOMIC);
+	if (work) {
+		INIT_WORK(work, do_thaw_all);
+		schedule_work(work);
+	}
 }
 
 /**
@@ -1596,9 +1609,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unmap_underlying_metadata);
  * locked buffer.   This only can happen if someone has written the buffer
  * directly, with submit_bh().  At the address_space level PageWriteback
  * prevents this contention from occurring.
+ *
+ * If block_write_full_page() is called with wbc->sync_mode ==
+ * WB_SYNC_ALL, the writes are posted using WRITE_SYNC_PLUG; this
+ * causes the writes to be flagged as synchronous writes, but the
+ * block device queue will NOT be unplugged, since usually many pages
+ * will be pushed to the out before the higher-level caller actually
+ * waits for the writes to be completed.  The various wait functions,
+ * such as wait_on_writeback_range() will ultimately call sync_page()
+ * which will ultimately call blk_run_backing_dev(), which will end up
+ * unplugging the device queue.
  */
 static int __block_write_full_page(struct inode *inode, struct page *page,
-			get_block_t *get_block, struct writeback_control *wbc)
+			get_block_t *get_block, struct writeback_control *wbc,
+			bh_end_io_t *handler)
 {
 	int err;
 	sector_t block;
@@ -1606,7 +1630,8 @@ static int __block_write_full_page(struct inode *inode, struct page *page,
 	struct buffer_head *bh, *head;
 	const unsigned blocksize = 1 << inode->i_blkbits;
 	int nr_underway = 0;
-	int write_op = (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL ? WRITE_SYNC : WRITE);
+	int write_op = (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL ?
+			WRITE_SYNC_PLUG : WRITE);
 
 	BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
 
@@ -1682,7 +1707,7 @@ static int __block_write_full_page(struct inode *inode, struct page *page,
 			continue;
 		}
 		if (test_clear_buffer_dirty(bh)) {
-			mark_buffer_async_write(bh);
+			mark_buffer_async_write_endio(bh, handler);
 		} else {
 			unlock_buffer(bh);
 		}
@@ -1735,7 +1760,7 @@ recover:
 		if (buffer_mapped(bh) && buffer_dirty(bh) &&
 		    !buffer_delay(bh)) {
 			lock_buffer(bh);
-			mark_buffer_async_write(bh);
+			mark_buffer_async_write_endio(bh, handler);
 		} else {
 			/*
 			 * The buffer may have been set dirty during
@@ -2661,7 +2686,8 @@ int nobh_writepage(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block,
 out:
 	ret = mpage_writepage(page, get_block, wbc);
 	if (ret == -EAGAIN)
-		ret = __block_write_full_page(inode, page, get_block, wbc);
+		ret = __block_write_full_page(inode, page, get_block, wbc,
+					      end_buffer_async_write);
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(nobh_writepage);
@@ -2819,9 +2845,10 @@ out:
 
 /*
  * The generic ->writepage function for buffer-backed address_spaces
+ * this form passes in the end_io handler used to finish the IO.
  */
-int block_write_full_page(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block,
-			struct writeback_control *wbc)
+int block_write_full_page_endio(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block,
+			struct writeback_control *wbc, bh_end_io_t *handler)
 {
 	struct inode * const inode = page->mapping->host;
 	loff_t i_size = i_size_read(inode);
@@ -2830,7 +2857,8 @@ int block_write_full_page(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block,
 
 	/* Is the page fully inside i_size? */
 	if (page->index < end_index)
-		return __block_write_full_page(inode, page, get_block, wbc);
+		return __block_write_full_page(inode, page, get_block, wbc,
+					       handler);
 
 	/* Is the page fully outside i_size? (truncate in progress) */
 	offset = i_size & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE-1);
@@ -2853,9 +2881,20 @@ int block_write_full_page(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block,
 	 * writes to that region are not written out to the file."
 	 */
 	zero_user_segment(page, offset, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
-	return __block_write_full_page(inode, page, get_block, wbc);
+	return __block_write_full_page(inode, page, get_block, wbc, handler);
+}
+
+/*
+ * The generic ->writepage function for buffer-backed address_spaces
+ */
+int block_write_full_page(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block,
+			struct writeback_control *wbc)
+{
+	return block_write_full_page_endio(page, get_block, wbc,
+					   end_buffer_async_write);
 }
 
+
 sector_t generic_block_bmap(struct address_space *mapping, sector_t block,
 			    get_block_t *get_block)
 {
@@ -3324,9 +3363,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(block_read_full_page);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(block_sync_page);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(block_truncate_page);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(block_write_full_page);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(block_write_full_page_endio);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cont_write_begin);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(end_buffer_read_sync);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(end_buffer_write_sync);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(end_buffer_async_write);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(file_fsync);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_block_bmap);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_cont_expand_simple);