[PATCH v4 8/9] xfs: add datasync and log_flushed arguments to xfs_log_force_inode()

From: Daejun Park via B4 Relay

Date: Mon Oct 19 2026 - 23:12:45 EST


From: Daejun Park <daejun7.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>

xfs_log_force_inode() is xfs_fsync_flush_log() without a datasync
variant and without the log_flushed result, plus a check for an inode
without a log item. Add the datasync and log_flushed arguments to
xfs_log_force_inode(), move the body and the comment of
xfs_fsync_flush_log() into it, and call it from xfs_file_fsync(), so
that code outside xfs_file.c can force the log for a datasync. The other
callers pass false and NULL. The next patch uses it in the pNFS
LAYOUTCOMMIT path.

No functional change: xfs_file_fsync() only calls it for an inode with a
log item, and the other callers force the log as before.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20261014130124.GA15407@xxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Daejun Park <daejun7.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
fs/xfs/xfs_export.c | 2 +-
fs/xfs/xfs_file.c | 50 ++++----------------------------------------------
fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h | 3 ++-
fs/xfs/xfs_pnfs.c | 2 +-
fs/xfs/xfs_zone_gc.c | 2 +-
6 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_export.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_export.c
index 9afda52ed1..9dd6dd8c27 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_export.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_export.c
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ STATIC int
xfs_fs_nfs_commit_metadata(
struct inode *inode)
{
- return xfs_log_force_inode(XFS_I(inode));
+ return xfs_log_force_inode(XFS_I(inode), false, NULL);
}

const struct export_operations xfs_export_operations = {
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
index 720f4a9b40..27176a4808 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
@@ -76,49 +76,7 @@ xfs_dir_fsync(
struct xfs_inode *ip = XFS_I(file->f_mapping->host);

trace_xfs_dir_fsync(ip);
- return xfs_log_force_inode(ip);
-}
-
-/*
- * All metadata updates are logged, which means that we just have to push the
- * journal to the required sequence number than holds the updates. We track
- * datasync commits separately to full sync commits, and hence only need to
- * select the correct sequence number for the log force here.
- *
- * We don't have to serialise against concurrent modifications, as we do not
- * have to wait for modifications that have not yet completed. We define a
- * transaction commit as completing when the commit sequence number is updated,
- * hence if the sequence number has not updated, the sync operation has been
- * run before the commit completed and we don't have to wait for it.
- *
- * If we have concurrent fsync/fdatasync() calls, the sequence numbers remain
- * set on the log item until - at least - the journal flush completes. In
- * reality, they are only cleared when the inode is fully unpinned (i.e.
- * persistent in the journal and not dirty in the CIL), and so we rely on
- * xfs_log_force_seq() either skipping sequences that have been persisted or
- * waiting on sequences that are still in flight to correctly order concurrent
- * sync operations.
- */
-static int
-xfs_fsync_flush_log(
- struct xfs_inode *ip,
- bool datasync,
- int *log_flushed)
-{
- struct xfs_inode_log_item *iip = ip->i_itemp;
- xfs_csn_t seq = 0;
-
- spin_lock(&iip->ili_lock);
- if (datasync)
- seq = iip->ili_datasync_seq;
- else
- seq = iip->ili_commit_seq;
- spin_unlock(&iip->ili_lock);
-
- if (!seq)
- return 0;
-
- return xfs_log_force_seq(ip->i_mount, seq, XFS_LOG_SYNC, log_flushed);
+ return xfs_log_force_inode(ip, false, NULL);
}

STATIC int
@@ -151,7 +109,7 @@ xfs_file_fsync(
* no modifications to this inode that need to be pushed out.
*/
if (ip->i_itemp) {
- error = xfs_fsync_flush_log(ip, datasync, &log_flushed);
+ error = xfs_log_force_inode(ip, datasync, &log_flushed);
if (error)
return error;
}
@@ -1599,7 +1557,7 @@ __xfs_file_fallocate(
}

if (!error && xfs_file_sync_writes(file))
- error = xfs_log_force_inode(ip);
+ error = xfs_log_force_inode(ip, false, NULL);

out_unlock:
xfs_iunlock(ip, iolock);
@@ -1750,7 +1708,7 @@ xfs_file_remap_range(
goto out_unlock;

if (xfs_file_sync_writes(file_in) || xfs_file_sync_writes(file_out))
- xfs_log_force_inode(dest);
+ xfs_log_force_inode(dest, false, NULL);
out_unlock:
xfs_iunlock2_remapping(src, dest);
if (ret)
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
index 15b62574b8..0d1c9531cd 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
@@ -2669,11 +2669,36 @@ xfs_irele(
}

/*
- * Ensure all committed transactions touching the inode are written to the log.
+ * Ensure all committed transactions touching the inode are written to the log,
+ * or with @datasync only those that fdatasync has to wait for.
+ *
+ * All metadata updates are logged, which means that we just have to push the
+ * journal to the required sequence number that holds the updates. We track
+ * datasync commits separately to full sync commits, and hence only need to
+ * select the correct sequence number for the log force here.
+ *
+ * We don't have to serialise against concurrent modifications, as we do not
+ * have to wait for modifications that have not yet completed. We define a
+ * transaction commit as completing when the commit sequence number is updated,
+ * hence if the sequence number has not updated, the sync operation has been
+ * run before the commit completed and we don't have to wait for it.
+ *
+ * If we have concurrent fsync/fdatasync() calls, the sequence numbers remain
+ * set on the log item until - at least - the journal flush completes. In
+ * reality, they are only cleared when the inode is fully unpinned (i.e.
+ * persistent in the journal and not dirty in the CIL), and so we rely on
+ * xfs_log_force_seq() either skipping sequences that have been persisted or
+ * waiting on sequences that are still in flight to correctly order concurrent
+ * sync operations.
+ *
+ * If @log_flushed is not NULL, it is set when the log force wrote an iclog,
+ * which flushes the device caches before the log write.
*/
int
xfs_log_force_inode(
- struct xfs_inode *ip)
+ struct xfs_inode *ip,
+ bool datasync,
+ int *log_flushed)
{
struct xfs_inode_log_item *iip = ip->i_itemp;
xfs_csn_t seq = 0;
@@ -2682,12 +2707,15 @@ xfs_log_force_inode(
return 0;

spin_lock(&iip->ili_lock);
- seq = iip->ili_commit_seq;
+ if (datasync)
+ seq = iip->ili_datasync_seq;
+ else
+ seq = iip->ili_commit_seq;
spin_unlock(&iip->ili_lock);

if (!seq)
return 0;
- return xfs_log_force_seq(ip->i_mount, seq, XFS_LOG_SYNC, NULL);
+ return xfs_log_force_seq(ip->i_mount, seq, XFS_LOG_SYNC, log_flushed);
}

/*
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h
index 1fa442b646..6dfd9271e6 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h
@@ -595,7 +595,8 @@ int xfs_ifree(struct xfs_trans *, struct xfs_inode *);
int xfs_itruncate_extents_flags(struct xfs_trans **,
struct xfs_inode *, int, xfs_fsize_t, int);

-int xfs_log_force_inode(struct xfs_inode *ip);
+int xfs_log_force_inode(struct xfs_inode *ip, bool datasync,
+ int *log_flushed);
void xfs_iunpin_wait(xfs_inode_t *);
#define xfs_ipincount(ip) ((unsigned int) atomic_read(&ip->i_pincount))

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_pnfs.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_pnfs.c
index 8d7a71db5f..1e47d0aa6a 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_pnfs.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_pnfs.c
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ xfs_fs_map_update_inode(
* Force the log so that the blocks handed out to the client are
* guaranteed to be present even after a server crash.
*/
- return xfs_log_force_inode(ip);
+ return xfs_log_force_inode(ip, false, NULL);
}

/*
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_zone_gc.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_zone_gc.c
index 54b70ed292..cea5447a88 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_zone_gc.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_zone_gc.c
@@ -1018,7 +1018,7 @@ xfs_zone_gc_reset_zones(
struct xfs_gc_bio *chunk;
struct bio *bio;

- xfs_log_force_inode(rtg_rmap(rtg));
+ xfs_log_force_inode(rtg_rmap(rtg), false, NULL);

next = rtg_group(rtg)->xg_next_reset;
rtg_group(rtg)->xg_next_reset = NULL;

--
2.43.0