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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2008-12-22 21:11:15 +0100
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2009-01-05 11:54:28 -0500
commit4c728ef583b3d82266584da5cb068294c09df31e (patch)
tree1252fa82b5a7cf60c0898c3da810228b4c34ebb3 /include
parent6110e3abbff8b785907d4db50240e63c1be726e3 (diff)
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 <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
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);