From 4c728ef583b3d82266584da5cb068294c09df31e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:11:15 +0100 Subject: add a vfs_fsync helper Fsync currently has a fdatawrite/fdatawait pair around the method call, and a mutex_lock/unlock of the inode mutex. All callers of fsync have to duplicate this, but we have a few and most of them don't quite get it right. This patch adds a new vfs_fsync that takes care of this. It's a little more complicated as usual as ->fsync might get a NULL file pointer and just a dentry from nfsd, but otherwise gets afile and we want to take the mapping and file operations from it when it is there. Notes on the fsync callers: - ecryptfs wasn't calling filemap_fdatawrite / filemap_fdatawait on the lower file - coda wasn't calling filemap_fdatawrite / filemap_fdatawait on the host file, and returning 0 when ->fsync was missing - shm wasn't calling either filemap_fdatawrite / filemap_fdatawait nor taking i_mutex. Now given that shared memory doesn't have disk backing not doing anything in fsync seems fine and I left it out of the vfs_fsync conversion for now, but in that case we might just not pass it through to the lower file at all but just call the no-op simple_sync_file directly. [and now actually export vfs_fsync] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- include/linux/fs.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h') diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index e2170ee21e1..9ad9eac9eb0 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -1827,7 +1827,7 @@ extern int __filemap_fdatawrite_range(struct address_space *mapping, extern int filemap_fdatawrite_range(struct address_space *mapping, loff_t start, loff_t end); -extern long do_fsync(struct file *file, int datasync); +extern int vfs_fsync(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync); extern void sync_supers(void); extern void sync_filesystems(int wait); extern void __fsync_super(struct super_block *sb); -- cgit