From: Mikulas Patocka Call the flush callback from the log. If flush failed, we need to mark the whole log as dirty. Also, set variable flush_failed, which prevents any bits ever being marked as free. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka --- drivers/md/dm-log.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6.30/drivers/md/dm-log.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.30.orig/drivers/md/dm-log.c +++ linux-2.6.30/drivers/md/dm-log.c @@ -681,6 +681,20 @@ static int disk_flush(struct dm_dirty_lo if (!lc->touched_cleaned && !lc->touched_dirtied) return 0; + if (lc->touched_cleaned && flush) { + if (flush(cookie)) { + /* + * At this point it is impossible to determine which + * regions are clean and which are dirty. So mark all + * of them dirty. + */ + int i; + lc->flush_failed = 1; + for (i = 0; i < lc->region_count; i++) + log_clear_bit(lc, lc->clean_bits, i); + } + } + r = rw_header(lc, WRITE); if (r) fail_log_device(lc);