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Linus Torvalds
b47711bfbc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6:
  selinux: make mls_compute_sid always polyinstantiate
  security/selinux: constify function pointer tables and fields
  security: add a secctx_to_secid() hook
  security: call security_file_permission from rw_verify_area
  security: remove security_sb_post_mountroot hook
  Security: remove security.h include from mm.h
  Security: remove security_file_mmap hook sparse-warnings (NULL as 0).
  Security: add get, set, and cloning of superblock security information
  security/selinux: Add missing "space"
2008-01-25 08:44:29 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
e07dd2ad30 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw: (56 commits)
  [GFS2] Allow journal recovery on read-only mount
  [GFS2] Lockup on error
  [GFS2] Fix page_mkwrite truncation race path
  [GFS2] Fix typo
  [GFS2] Fix write alloc required shortcut calculation
  [GFS2] gfs2_alloc_required performance
  [GFS2] Remove unneeded i_spin
  [GFS2] Reduce inode size by moving i_alloc out of line
  [GFS2] Fix assert in log code
  [GFS2] Fix problems relating to execution of files on GFS2
  [GFS2] Initialize extent_list earlier
  [GFS2] Allow page migration for writeback and ordered pages
  [GFS2] Remove unused variable
  [GFS2] Fix log block mapper
  [GFS2] Minor correction
  [GFS2] Eliminate the no longer needed sd_statfs_mutex
  [GFS2] Incremental patch to fix compiler warning
  [GFS2] Function meta_read optimization
  [GFS2] Only fetch the dinode once in block_map
  [GFS2] Reorganize function gfs2_glmutex_lock
  ...
2008-01-25 08:39:18 -08:00
Abhijith Das
7bc5c414fe [GFS2] Allow journal recovery on read-only mount
This patch allows gfs2 to perform journal recovery even if it is mounted
read-only. Strictly speaking, a read-only mount should not be writing to
the filesystem, but we do this only to perform journal recovery. A
read-only mount will fail if we don't recover the dirty journal. Also,
when gfs2 is used as a root filesystem, it will be mounted read-only
before being mounted read-write during the boot sequence. A failed
read-only mount will panic the machine during bootup.

Signed-off-by: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:21:22 +00:00
Bob Peterson
1b8177ec1e [GFS2] Lockup on error
I spotted this bug while I was digging around.  Looks like it could cause
a lockup in some rare error condition.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:21:04 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
b7fe2e391e [GFS2] Fix page_mkwrite truncation race path
There was a bug in the truncation/invalidation race path for
->page_mkwrite for gfs2. It ought to return 0 so that the effect is the
same as if the page was truncated at any of the other points at which
the page_lock is dropped. This will result in the restart of the whole
page fault path. If it was due to a real truncation (as opposed to an
invalidate because we let a glock go) then the ->fault path will pick
that up when it gets called again.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:20:15 +00:00
Bob Peterson
3e5cd0877e [GFS2] Fix typo
This patch fixes a minor typo.  Surprisingly, it still compiled.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:19:51 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
1af535727b [GFS2] Fix write alloc required shortcut calculation
The comparison was being made against the wrong quantity.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:19:28 +00:00
Bob Peterson
0522053519 [GFS2] gfs2_alloc_required performance
This is a small I/O performance enhancement to gfs2.  (Actually, it is a rework of
an earlier version I got wrong).  The idea here is to check if the write extends
past the last block in the file.  If so, the function can save itself a lot of
time and trouble because it knows an allocate will be required.  Benchmarks like
iozone should see better performance.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:19:03 +00:00
Bob Peterson
598278bd48 [GFS2] Remove unneeded i_spin
This patch removes a vestigial variable "i_spin" from the gfs2_inode
structure.  This not only saves us memory (>300000 of these in memory
for the oom test) it also saves us time because we don't have to
spend time initializing it (i.e. slightly better performance).

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:18:44 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
6dbd822487 [GFS2] Reduce inode size by moving i_alloc out of line
It is possible to reduce the size of GFS2 inodes by taking the i_alloc
structure out of the gfs2_inode. This patch allocates the i_alloc
structure whenever its needed, and frees it afterward. This decreases
the amount of low memory we use at the expense of requiring a memory
allocation for each page or partial page that we write. A quick test
with postmark shows that the overhead is not measurable and I also note
that OCFS2 use the same approach.

In the future I'd like to solve the problem by shrinking down the size
of the members of the i_alloc structure, but for now, this reduces the
immediate problem of using too much low-memory on x86 and doesn't add
too much overhead.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:18:25 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
ac39aadd04 [GFS2] Fix assert in log code
Although the values were all being calculated correctly, there was a
race in the assert due to the way it was using atomic variables. This
changes the value we assert on so that we get the same effect by testing
a different variable. This prevents the assert triggering when it shouldn't.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:18:03 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
9656b2c14c [GFS2] Fix problems relating to execution of files on GFS2
This patch fixes a couple of problems which affected the execution of files
on GFS2. The first is that there was a corner case where inodes were not
always uptodate at the point at which permissions checks were being carried
out, this was resulting in refusal of execute permission, but only on the
first lookup, subsequent requests worked correctly. The second was a problem
relating to incorrect updating of file sizes which was introduced with the
write_begin/end code for GFS2 a little while back.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:17:31 +00:00
Bob Peterson
0811a127cb [GFS2] Initialize extent_list earlier
Here is a patch for the latest upstream GFS2 code:
The journal extent map needs to be initialized sooner than it
currently is.  Otherwise failed mount attempts (e.g. not enough
journals, etc.) may panic trying to access the uninitialized list.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:17:04 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
e5d9dc278c [GFS2] Allow page migration for writeback and ordered pages
To improve performance on NUMA, we use the VM's standard page
migration for writeback and ordered pages. Probably we could
also do the same for journaled data, but that would need a
careful audit of the code, so will be the subject of a later
patch.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:16:41 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
65a6290998 [GFS2] Remove unused variable
The go_drop_th function is never called or referenced.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:16:19 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
ff91cc9bb4 [GFS2] Fix log block mapper
A missing offset in the calculation.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:15:58 +00:00
Bob Peterson
fa3742fa85 [GFS2] Minor correction
This is a small correction to my previously posted patch1.
It just changes a divide to a shift.  It's faster and doesn't
introduce odd dependencies on 32-bit compiles.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:15:37 +00:00
Bob Peterson
c3f60b6e3a [GFS2] Eliminate the no longer needed sd_statfs_mutex
This patch eliminates the unneeded sd_statfs_mutex mutex but preserves
the ordering as discussed.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:15:16 +00:00
Bob Peterson
b3513fca7e [GFS2] Incremental patch to fix compiler warning
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:14:53 +00:00
Bob Peterson
15c7cee799 [GFS2] Function meta_read optimization
This patch optimizes function gfs2_meta_read.  Basically, gfs2_meta_wait
was being called regardless of whether a disk read was requested.
This just pulls that wait into the if that triggers the read.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:14:33 +00:00
Bob Peterson
b0d5fd3074 [GFS2] Only fetch the dinode once in block_map
Function gfs2_block_map was often looking up the disk inode twice.
This optimizes it so that only does it once.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:14:13 +00:00
Bob Peterson
398bbe6832 [GFS2] Reorganize function gfs2_glmutex_lock
This patch optimizes the function gfs2_glmutex_lock.
The basic theory is: Why bother initializing a holder, setting up
wait bits and then waiting on them, if you know the glock can be
yours.  So the holder stuff is placed inside the if checking if the
glock is locked.  This one needs careful scrutiny because changing
anything to do with locking should strike terror into one's heart.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:13:52 +00:00
Bob Peterson
5fdc2eeb5d [GFS2] Run through full bitmaps quicker in gfs2_bitfit
I eliminated the passing of an unused parameter into gfs2_bitfit called rgd.

This also changes the gfs2_bitfit code that searches for free (or used) blocks.
Before, the code was trying to check for bytes that indicated 4 blocks in
the undesired state.  The problem is, it was spending more time trying to
do this than it actually was saving.  This version only optimizes the case
where we're looking for free blocks, and it checks a machine word at a time.
So on 32-bit machines, it will check 32-bits (16 blocks) and on 64-bit
machines, it will check 64-bits (32 blocks) at a time.  The compiler
optimizes that quite well and we save some time, especially when running
through full bitmaps (like the bitmaps allocated for the journals).

There's probably a more elegant or optimized way to do this, but I haven't
thought of it yet.  I'm open to suggestions.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:13:31 +00:00
Bob Peterson
0d0868bde3 [GFS2] Get rid of useless "found" variable in quota.c
This just eliminates an unused variable from the quota code.
Not likely to be a time saver.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:13:01 +00:00
Bob Peterson
da6dd40d59 [GFS2] Journal extent mapping
This patch saves a little time when gfs2 writes to the journals by
keeping a mapping between logical and physical blocks on disk.
That's better than constantly looking up indirect pointers in
buffers, when the journals are several levels of indirection
(which they typically are).

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:11:46 +00:00
Bob Peterson
e9e1ef2b6e [GFS2] Remove function gfs2_get_block
This patch is just a cleanup.  Function gfs2_get_block() just calls
function gfs2_block_map reversing the last two parameters.  By
reversing the parameters, gfs2_block_map() may be called directly
and function gfs2_get_block may be eliminated altogether.
Since this function is done for every block operation,
this streamlines the code and makes it a little bit more efficient.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:08:25 +00:00
David Teigland
2066b58b0a [GFS2] use pid for plock owner for nfs clients
The fl_owner is that of lockd when posix locks arrive from nfs
clients, so it can't be used to distinguish between lock holders.
Use fl_pid as owner instead; it's the pid of the process on the
nfs client.

Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:08:23 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
dbee2199c3 [GFS2] Remove unused variable
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:08:20 +00:00
Abhijith Das
292c8c14ca [GFS2] patch to check for recursive lock requests in gfs2_rename code path
A certain scenario in the rename code path triggers a kernel BUG()
because it accidentally does recursive locking The first lock is
requested to unlink an already existing inode (replacing a file) and the
second lock is requested when the destination directory needs to alloc
some space. It is rare that these two
events happen during the same rename call, and even more rare that these
two instances try to lock the same rgrp. It is, however, possible.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=404711

Signed-off-by: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:08:18 +00:00
Wendy Cheng
c97bfe4351 [GFS2] Remove lock methods for lock_nolock protocol
GFS2 supports two modes of locking - lock_nolock for single node filesystem
and lock_dlm for cluster mode locking. The gfs2 lock methods are removed from
file operation table for lock_nolock protocol. This would allow VFS to handle
posix lock and flock logics just like other in-tree filesystems without
duplication.

Signed-off-by: S. Wendy Cheng <wcheng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:08:15 +00:00
Fabio M. Di Nitto
bcd405599f [GFS2] Remove unrequired code
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:08:13 +00:00
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
6a69a23f7d [GFS2] Fix build warnings
Hi Steven,

Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Now in the -nmw git tree. Thanks,
>
> Steve.
>
> On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 11:54 -0600, Ryan O'Hara wrote:

this patch introduces a bunch of build warnings by leaving around

struct inode *inode = &ip->i_inode;

The patch in attachment cleans them up. Please apply.

Signed-off-by: Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:08:11 +00:00
Ryan O'Hara
002ef1dc63 [GFS2] remove unnecessary permission checks
Remove read/write permission() checks from xattr operations.
VFS layer is already handling permission for xattrs via the
xattr_permission() call, so there is no need for gfs2 to
check permissions. Futhermore, using permission() for SELinux
xattrs ops is incorrect.

Signed-off-by: Ryan O'Hara <rohara@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:08:08 +00:00
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
1a2781cfa5 [GFS2] Fix runtime issue with UP kernels
The issue is indeed UP vs SMP and it is totally random.

spin_is_locked() is a bad assertion because there is no correct answer on UP.
on UP spin_is_locked() has to return either one value or another, always.

This means that in my setup I am lucky enough to trigger the issue and your you
are lucky enough not to.

the patch in attachment removes the bogus calls to BUG_ON and according to David
(in CC and thanks for the long explanation on the problem) we can rely upon
things like lockdep to find problem that might be trying to catch.

Signed-off-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@ubuntu.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:08:06 +00:00
David Teigland
00c134756c [GFS2] tidy up error message
Print error with log_error() to be consistent with others.

Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:08:04 +00:00
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
0b7580c786 [GFS2] Check for installation of mount helpers for DLM mounts
The patch is a fix to abort mount if the mount.gfs* and possible
umount.* are missing from /sbin.

While we do what we can to guarantee that they are installed properly in
userland (CVS HEAD), we want to make sure that mount still aborts properly.

The only sign of missing helpers is that lock_dlm will receive no mount options
at all. According to David the problem does not exist for lock_nolock as the
helpers are not required.

The patch has been tested for both gfs and gfs2 and it works as expected. The
lack of mount.gfs* will generate an error that is propagated to mount:

oot@node1:~# mount -t  gfs2 /dev/nbd2 /mnt/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/nbd2,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

[ 3513.303346] GFS2: fsid=: Trying to join cluster "lock_dlm", "gutsy:gfs2"
[ 3513.304546] DLM/GFS2/GFS ERROR: (u)mount helpers are not installed properly!
[ 3513.306290] GFS2: fsid=: can't mount proto=lock_dlm, table=gutsy:gfs2, hostdata=

You might want to notice that it will also avoid mount to hang or fail silently
or with strange errors that will require the cluster to reboot/restart before
you can actually mount the filesystem again.

Signed-off-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:08:01 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
e35b921185 [GFS2] Don't periodically update the jindex
We only care about the content of the jindex in two cases,
one is when we mount the fs and the other is when we need
to recover another journal. In both cases we have to update
the jindex anyway, so there is no point in updating it
periodically between times, so this removes it to simplify
gfs2_logd.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:07:59 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
ec69b18883 [GFS2] Move gfs2_logd into log.c
This means that we can mark gfs2_ail1_empty static and prepares
the way for further changes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:07:56 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
fd041f0b40 [GFS2] Use atomic_t for journal free blocks counter
This patch changes the counter which keeps track of the free
blocks in the journal to an atomic_t in preparation for the
following patch which will update the log reservation code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:07:54 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
2bcd610d2f [GFS2] Don't add glocks to the journal
The only reason for adding glocks to the journal was to keep track
of which locks required a log flush prior to release. We add a
flag to the glock to allow this check to be made in a simpler way.

This reduces the size of a glock (by 12 bytes on i386, 24 on x86_64)
and means that we can avoid extra work during the journal flush.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:07:52 +00:00
David Teigland
8cbc434247 [GFS2] check kthread_should_stop when waiting
Use wait_event_interruptible() in the lock_dlm thread instead
of an open coded equivalent, and include a kthread_should_stop()
check in the wait test so we don't miss a kthread_stop().

Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:07:49 +00:00
Bob Peterson
c7227e4642 [GFS2] Given device ID rather than s_id in "id" sysfs file
This patch changes the /sys/fs/gfs2/<s_id>/id file to give the device
id "major:minor" rather than the s_id.  That enables gfs2_tool to
match devices properly (by id, not name) when locating the tuning files.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:07:47 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
e589665eb9 [GFS2] Remove flags no longer required
The HIF_MUTEX and HIF_PROMOTE flags were set on the glock holders
depending upon which of the two waiters lists they were going to
be queued upon. They were then tested when the holders were taken
off the lists to ensure that the right type of holder was being
dequeued.

Since we are already using separate lists, there doesn't seem a
lot of point having these flags as well, and since setting them
and testing them is in the fast path for locking and unlocking
glock, this patch removes them.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:07:44 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
3042a2ccd6 [GFS2] Reorder writeback for glock sync
Previously we were doing (write data, wait for data, write metadata, wait
for metadata). After this patch we so (write metadata, write data, wait for
data, wait for metadata) which should be more efficient.

Also I noticed that the drop_bh and xmote_bh functions were almost
identical. In fact the only difference was a single test, and that
test is such that in the drop_bh case, it would always evaluate to
the correct result. As such we can use the xmote_bh functions in
all the places where we were using the drop_bh function and remove
the drop_bh functions.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:07:42 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
52d4c74b08 [GFS2] Add sync_page to metadata address space operations
This set of address space operations was missing a sync_page
operation.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:07:40 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
c2932e03db [GFS2] Remove "reclaim limit"
This call to reclaim glocks is not needed, and in particular we don't want it
in the fast path for locking glocks. The limit was entirely arbitrary anyway
and we can't expect users to adjust things like this, the remaining code will
do the right thing on its own.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:07:37 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
60b0d08779 [GFS2] Remove unused variables
These haven't been used for some time, remove them.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:07:35 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
47e83b5091 [GFS2] Use correct include file in ops_address.c
Something changed in the upstream kernel, and it needs this
one-liner to allow ops_address.c to build.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:07:32 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
c41d4f09f1 [GFS2] Don't hold page lock when starting transaction
This is an addendum to the new AOPs work which moves the point
at which we take the page lock so that we don't get it until
the last possible moment. This resolves a conflict between
starting transactions and the page lock.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:07:30 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
b8e7cbb65b [GFS2] Add writepages for GFS2 jdata
This patch resolves a lock ordering issue where we had been getting
a transaction lock in the wrong order with respect to the page lock.
By using writepages rather than just writepage, it is then possible
to start a transaction before locking the page, and thus matching the
locking order elsewhere in the code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25 08:07:28 +00:00