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Jan Kara committed 00473374b72
ext4: mark superblock writes synchronous for nobarrier mounts Commit b685d3d65ac7 "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: b685d3d65ac791406e0dfd8779cc9b3707fea5a3 CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>