| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 3.18 25/84] dm cache: dirty flag was mistakenly being cleared when promoting via overwrite | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 2015 17:49:28 -0800 |
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3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
commit 1e32134a5a404e80bfb47fad8a94e9bbfcbdacc5 upstream.
If the incoming bio is a WRITE and completely covers a block then we don't bother to do any copying for a promotion operation. Once this is done the cache block and origin block will be different, so we need to set it to 'dirty'.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
--- drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-cache-target.c @@ -951,10 +951,14 @@ static void migration_success_post_commi } } else { - clear_dirty(cache, mg->new_oblock, mg->cblock); - if (mg->requeue_holder) + if (mg->requeue_holder) { + clear_dirty(cache, mg->new_oblock, mg->cblock); cell_defer(cache, mg->new_ocell, true); - else { + } else { + /* + * The block was promoted via an overwrite, so it's dirty. + */ + set_dirty(cache, mg->new_oblock, mg->cblock); bio_endio(mg->new_ocell->holder, 0); cell_defer(cache, mg->new_ocell, false); }
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