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author | Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> | 2009-04-27 16:43:51 +0200 |
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committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2009-06-11 21:36:03 -0400 |
commit | 5cee5815d1564bbbd505fea86f4550f1efdb5cd0 (patch) | |
tree | ba99c38932dc534bf56f0d7dcfeeca153f50b007 /Documentation/Changes | |
parent | 429479f031322a0cc5c921ffb2321a51718dc875 (diff) | |
download | linux-5cee5815d1564bbbd505fea86f4550f1efdb5cd0.tar.bz2 |
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>
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