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| author | Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> | 2009-01-06 14:40:26 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-01-06 15:59:09 -0800 |
| commit | 856bf4d717feb8c55d4e2f817b71ebb70cfbc67b (patch) | |
| tree | f44790d9b8f42223955d1866645103ac5f9c68a3 /include | |
| parent | 38f21977663126fef53f5585e7f1653d8ebe55c4 (diff) | |
| download | linux-856bf4d717feb8c55d4e2f817b71ebb70cfbc67b.tar.bz2 | |
fs: sys_sync fix
s_syncing livelock avoidance was breaking data integrity guarantee of
sys_sync, by allowing sys_sync to skip writing or waiting for superblocks
if there is a concurrent sys_sync happening.
This livelock avoidance is much less important now that we don't have the
get_super_to_sync() call after every sb that we sync. This was replaced
by __put_super_and_need_restart.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index fb59673c60b1..d7eba77f666e 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -1133,7 +1133,6 @@ struct super_block { struct rw_semaphore s_umount; struct mutex s_lock; int s_count; - int s_syncing; int s_need_sync_fs; atomic_t s_active; #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY |