ext4: mark superblock writes synchronous for nobarrier mounts
Commit b685d3d6 "block: treat REQ_FUA and REQ_PREFLUSH as synchronous" removed REQ_SYNC flag from WRITE_FUA implementation. generic_make_request_checks() however strips REQ_FUA flag from a bio when the storage doesn't report volatile write cache and thus write effectively becomes asynchronous which can lead to performance regressions. This affects superblock writes for ext4. Fix the problem by marking superblock writes always as synchronous. Fixes: b685d3d6 CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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