jbd: don't abort if flushing file data failed
authorHidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:46:30 +0000 (01:46 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:53:32 +0000 (10:53 -0700)
commitcbe5f466f6995e10a10c7ae66d6dc8608f08a6b8
tree237bbbda6ddd6e38dc7004cd870cbce7af0684c4
parent8ef2720397bb813d4985405a5ae7b8ad6474188b
jbd: don't abort if flushing file data failed

In ordered mode, the current jbd aborts the journal if a file data buffer
has an error.  But this behavior is unintended, and we found that it has
been adopted accidentally.

This patch undoes it and just calls printk() instead of aborting the
journal.  Additionally, set AS_EIO into the address_space object of the
failed buffer which is submitted by journal_do_submit_data() so that
fsync() can get -EIO.

Missing error checkings are also added to inform errors on file data
buffers to the user.  The following buffers are targeted.

  (a) the buffer which has already been written out by pdflush
  (b) the buffer which has been unlocked before scanned in the
      t_locked_list loop

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: improve grammar in a printk]
Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/jbd/commit.c