vfs: Make sys_sync() use fsync_super() (version 4) It is unnecessarily fragile to have two places (fsync_super() and do_sync()) doing data integrity sync of the filesystem. Alter __fsync_super() to accommodate needs of both callers and use it. So after this patch __fsync_super() is the only place where we gather all the calls needed to properly send all data on a filesystem to disk. Nice bonus is that we get a complete livelock avoidance and write_supers() is now only used for periodic writeback of superblocks. sync_blockdevs() introduced a couple of patches ago is gone now. [build fixes folded] Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h index 343a537..dbec3cc 100644 --- a/fs/internal.h +++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ return sb == blockdev_superblock; } +extern int __sync_blockdev(struct block_device *bdev, int wait); + #else static inline void bdev_cache_init(void) { @@ -34,6 +36,11 @@ { return 0; } + +static inline int __sync_blockdev(struct block_device *bdev, int wait) +{ + return 0; +} #endif /* @@ -71,12 +78,3 @@ * file_table.c */ extern void mark_files_ro(struct super_block *); - -/* - * super.c - */ -#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK -extern void sync_blockdevs(void); -#else -static inline void sync_blockdevs(void) { } -#endif