From 34126f9f41901ca9d7d0031c2b11fc0d6c07b72d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Whitehouse Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:13:14 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] Change gfs2_fsync() to use write_inode_now() This is a bit better than the previous version of gfs2_fsync() although it would be better still if we were able to call a function which only wrote the inode & metadata. Its no big deal though that this will potentially write the data as well since the VFS has already done that before calling gfs2_fsync(). I've also added a comment to explain whats going on here. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse Cc: Andrew Morton --- fs/gfs2/ops_file.c | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/gfs2/ops_file.c b/fs/gfs2/ops_file.c index 7bd971bf7cd..b3f1e0349ae 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/ops_file.c +++ b/fs/gfs2/ops_file.c @@ -510,6 +510,11 @@ static int gfs2_close(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) * is set. For stuffed inodes we must flush the log in order to * ensure that all data is on disk. * + * The call to write_inode_now() is there to write back metadata and + * the inode itself. It does also try and write the data, but thats + * (hopefully) a no-op due to the VFS having already called filemap_fdatawrite() + * for us. + * * Returns: errno */ @@ -518,10 +523,6 @@ static int gfs2_fsync(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync) struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode; int sync_state = inode->i_state & (I_DIRTY_SYNC|I_DIRTY_DATASYNC); int ret = 0; - struct writeback_control wbc = { - .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL, - .nr_to_write = 0, - }; if (gfs2_is_jdata(GFS2_I(inode))) { gfs2_log_flush(GFS2_SB(inode), GFS2_I(inode)->i_gl); @@ -530,7 +531,7 @@ static int gfs2_fsync(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync) if (sync_state != 0) { if (!datasync) - ret = sync_inode(inode, &wbc); + ret = write_inode_now(inode, 0); if (gfs2_is_stuffed(GFS2_I(inode))) gfs2_log_flush(GFS2_SB(inode), GFS2_I(inode)->i_gl); -- 2.41.1