NFS: Fall back to synchronous writes when a background write errors...
This helps prevent huge queues of background writes from building up
whenever the server runs out of disk or quota space, or if someone changes
the file access modes behind our backs.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c
index b3c5f5d..fb396ea 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -110,6 +110,13 @@
nfs_writedata_free(wdata);
}
+static void nfs_context_set_write_error(struct nfs_open_context *ctx, int error)
+{
+ ctx->error = error;
+ smp_wmb();
+ set_bit(NFS_CONTEXT_ERROR_WRITE, &ctx->flags);
+}
+
static struct nfs_page *nfs_page_find_request_locked(struct page *page)
{
struct nfs_page *req = NULL;
@@ -945,7 +952,7 @@
if (task->tk_status < 0) {
nfs_set_pageerror(page);
- req->wb_context->error = task->tk_status;
+ nfs_context_set_write_error(req->wb_context, task->tk_status);
dprintk(", error = %d\n", task->tk_status);
goto out;
}
@@ -1008,7 +1015,7 @@
if (task->tk_status < 0) {
nfs_set_pageerror(page);
- req->wb_context->error = task->tk_status;
+ nfs_context_set_write_error(req->wb_context, task->tk_status);
dprintk(", error = %d\n", task->tk_status);
goto remove_request;
}
@@ -1222,7 +1229,7 @@
req->wb_bytes,
(long long)req_offset(req));
if (task->tk_status < 0) {
- req->wb_context->error = task->tk_status;
+ nfs_context_set_write_error(req->wb_context, task->tk_status);
nfs_inode_remove_request(req);
dprintk(", error = %d\n", task->tk_status);
goto next;