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dm snapshot: use barrier when writing exception store

Send barrier requests when updating the exception area.

Exception area updates need to be ordered w.r.t. data writes, so that
the writes are not reordered in hardware disk cache.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Mikulas Patocka 16 years ago
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      drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c

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drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c

@@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ static void persistent_commit_exception(struct dm_exception_store *store,
 	/*
 	 * Commit exceptions to disk.
 	 */
-	if (ps->valid && area_io(ps, WRITE))
+	if (ps->valid && area_io(ps, WRITE_BARRIER))
 		ps->valid = 0;
 
 	/*