ext4: write superblock only once on unmount

Started by Artem Bityutskiy on Mar 19, 2012

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From: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>

In some rather rare cases it is possible that ext4 may the superblock to the
media twice. This patch makes sure this does not happen. This should speed up
unmounting in those cases.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
---
 fs/ext4/super.c |    7 +++----
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 502c61f..c1f5111 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -808,9 +808,6 @@ static void ext4_put_super(struct super_block *sb)
 	destroy_workqueue(sbi->dio_unwritten_wq);
 
 	lock_super(sb);
-	if (sb->s_dirt)
-		ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);
-
 	if (sbi->s_journal) {
 		err = jbd2_journal_destroy(sbi->s_journal);
 		sbi->s_journal = NULL;
@@ -827,8 +824,10 @@ static void ext4_put_super(struct super_block *sb)
 	if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
 		EXT4_CLEAR_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER);
 		es->s_state = cpu_to_le16(sbi->s_mount_state);
-		ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);
 	}
+	if (sb->s_dirt || !(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
+		ext4_commit_super(sb, 1);
+
 	if (sbi->s_proc) {
 		remove_proc_entry(sb->s_id, ext4_proc_root);
 	}
-- 
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