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| author | Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> | 2014-06-05 01:06:27 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-06-05 01:53:55 +0200 |
| commit | ac13a829f6adb674015ab399594c089990104af7 (patch) | |
| tree | 29f0b78758080bac01307e705371283a406b41c4 /fs | |
| parent | fs/9p: kerneldoc fixes (diff) | |
| download | linux-ac13a829f6adb674015ab399594c089990104af7.tar.xz linux-ac13a829f6adb674015ab399594c089990104af7.zip | |
fs/libfs.c: add generic data flush to fsync
Description by Jan Kara:
"A lot of older filesystems don't properly flush volatile disk caches
on fsync(2) which can lead to loss of fsynced data after power failure.
This patch makes generic_file_fsync() issue proper cache flush to fix the
problem. Sysadmin can use /sys/devices/.../cache_type to tell the system
it should not send the cache flush."
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuke ifdef]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/libfs.c | 34 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c index a1844244246f..88e3e00e2eca 100644 --- a/fs/libfs.c +++ b/fs/libfs.c @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ * Library for filesystems writers. */ +#include <linux/blkdev.h> #include <linux/export.h> #include <linux/pagemap.h> #include <linux/slab.h> @@ -923,16 +924,19 @@ struct dentry *generic_fh_to_parent(struct super_block *sb, struct fid *fid, EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(generic_fh_to_parent); /** - * generic_file_fsync - generic fsync implementation for simple filesystems + * __generic_file_fsync - generic fsync implementation for simple filesystems + * * @file: file to synchronize + * @start: start offset in bytes + * @end: end offset in bytes (inclusive) * @datasync: only synchronize essential metadata if true * * This is a generic implementation of the fsync method for simple * filesystems which track all non-inode metadata in the buffers list * hanging off the address_space structure. */ -int generic_file_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, - int datasync) +int __generic_file_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, + int datasync) { struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host; int err; @@ -952,10 +956,34 @@ int generic_file_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, err = sync_inode_metadata(inode, 1); if (ret == 0) ret = err; + out: mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); return ret; } +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__generic_file_fsync); + +/** + * generic_file_fsync - generic fsync implementation for simple filesystems + * with flush + * @file: file to synchronize + * @start: start offset in bytes + * @end: end offset in bytes (inclusive) + * @datasync: only synchronize essential metadata if true + * + */ + +int generic_file_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, + int datasync) +{ + struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host; + int err; + + err = __generic_file_fsync(file, start, end, datasync); + if (err) + return err; + return blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL); +} EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_fsync); /** |