[PATCH 3/3] ext4: Deprecate barrier= and nobarrier mount options

From: Darrick J. Wong
Date: Wed Jan 26 2011 - 02:23:41 EST


As part of migrating the FLUSH/FUA knob to the block layer, remove the support
code for the barrier-related mount options and remove the conditionals around
flushes in favor of always issuing the flush. The block layer will handle
gracefully the situation where a FLUSH or FUA request is issued to a device
that doesn't support it. Modify the option parsing code to print a warning if
someone tries to use the old mount option.

Note: The nobarrier bit in the default mount flags is now useless.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

fs/ext4/ext4.h | 1 -
fs/ext4/super.c | 23 ++---------------------
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 0c8d97b..fa4c688 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -893,7 +893,6 @@ struct ext4_inode_info {
#define EXT4_MOUNT_XATTR_USER 0x04000 /* Extended user attributes */
#define EXT4_MOUNT_POSIX_ACL 0x08000 /* POSIX Access Control Lists */
#define EXT4_MOUNT_NO_AUTO_DA_ALLOC 0x10000 /* No auto delalloc mapping */
-#define EXT4_MOUNT_BARRIER 0x20000 /* Use block barriers */
#define EXT4_MOUNT_QUOTA 0x80000 /* Some quota option set */
#define EXT4_MOUNT_USRQUOTA 0x100000 /* "old" user quota */
#define EXT4_MOUNT_GRPQUOTA 0x200000 /* "old" group quota */
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 7379829..cd8e7b8 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -1022,13 +1022,6 @@ static int ext4_show_options(struct seq_file *seq, struct vfsmount *vfs)
(unsigned) sbi->s_min_batch_time);
}

- /*
- * We're changing the default of barrier mount option, so
- * let's always display its mount state so it's clear what its
- * status is.
- */
- seq_puts(seq, ",barrier=");
- seq_puts(seq, test_opt(sb, BARRIER) ? "1" : "0");
if (test_opt(sb, JOURNAL_ASYNC_COMMIT))
seq_puts(seq, ",journal_async_commit");
else if (test_opt(sb, JOURNAL_CHECKSUM))
@@ -1701,18 +1694,9 @@ set_qf_format:
sbi->s_mount_flags |= EXT4_MF_FS_ABORTED;
break;
case Opt_nobarrier:
- clear_opt(sb, BARRIER);
- break;
case Opt_barrier:
- if (args[0].from) {
- if (match_int(&args[0], &option))
- return 0;
- } else
- option = 1; /* No argument, default to 1 */
- if (option)
- set_opt(sb, BARRIER);
- else
- clear_opt(sb, BARRIER);
+ ext4_msg(sb, KERN_INFO, "barrier options are "
+ "deprecated. Use ignore_flush in sysfs.");
break;
case Opt_ignore:
break;
@@ -3125,9 +3109,6 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
sbi->s_min_batch_time = EXT4_DEF_MIN_BATCH_TIME;
sbi->s_max_batch_time = EXT4_DEF_MAX_BATCH_TIME;

- if ((def_mount_opts & EXT4_DEFM_NOBARRIER) == 0)
- set_opt(sb, BARRIER);
-
/*
* enable delayed allocation by default
* Use -o nodelalloc to turn it off
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