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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH V6 7/7] ovl: implement containerized syncfs for overlayfs
On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 5:01 AM Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@mykernel.net> wrote:
>
> From: Chengguang Xu <charliecgxu@tencent.com>
>
> Now overlayfs can only sync own dirty inodes during syncfs,
> so remove unnecessary sync_filesystem() on upper file system.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <charliecgxu@tencent.com>
> ---
> fs/overlayfs/super.c | 14 +++++---------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
> index ccffcd96491d..213b795a6a86 100644
> --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
> @@ -292,18 +292,14 @@ static int ovl_sync_fs(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
> /*
> * Not called for sync(2) call or an emergency sync (SB_I_SKIP_SYNC).
> * All the super blocks will be iterated, including upper_sb.
> - *
> - * If this is a syncfs(2) call, then we do need to call
> - * sync_filesystem() on upper_sb, but enough if we do it when being
> - * called with wait == 1.
> */
> - if (!wait)
> - return 0;
> -
> upper_sb = ovl_upper_mnt(ofs)->mnt_sb;
> -
> down_read(&upper_sb->s_umount);
> - ret = sync_filesystem(upper_sb);
> + if (wait)
> + wait_sb_inodes(upper_sb);
> + if (upper_sb->s_op->sync_fs)
> + upper_sb->s_op->sync_fs(upper_sb, wait);
> + ret = ovl_sync_upper_blockdev(upper_sb, wait);

I think it will be cleaner to use a helper ovl_sync_upper_filesystem()
with everything from upper_sb = ... and a comment to explain that
this is a variant of __sync_filesystem() where all the dirty inodes write
have already been started.

Thanks,
Amir.

P.S. I like this "stoopid proof" v6 because I can understand it ;-)

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