ovl: skip overlayfs superblocks at global sync

Stacked filesystems like overlayfs has no own writeback, but they have to
forward syncfs() requests to backend for keeping data integrity.

During global sync() each overlayfs instance calls method ->sync_fs() for
backend although it itself is in global list of superblocks too.  As a
result one syscall sync() could write one superblock several times and send
multiple disk barriers.

This patch adds flag SB_I_SKIP_SYNC into sb->sb_iflags to avoid that.

Reported-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmtrmonakhov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Konstantin Khlebnikov 2020-04-09 11:29:47 +03:00 committed by Miklos Szeredi
parent 62a8a85be8
commit 32b1924b21
3 changed files with 7 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ static void sync_inodes_one_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *arg)
static void sync_fs_one_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *arg)
{
if (!sb_rdonly(sb) && sb->s_op->sync_fs)
if (!sb_rdonly(sb) && !(sb->s_iflags & SB_I_SKIP_SYNC) &&
sb->s_op->sync_fs)
sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, *(int *)arg);
}