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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-11-02 10:05:22 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-11-02 10:05:22 -0700
commit34116645d912f65d7eb4508a1db3c9d0e45facb1 (patch)
tree27283af2d429df5884637d1baa7306116ab26fcb /fs/ext3/fsync.c
parentde0a5345a55b8dd5a4695181275df0e691176830 (diff)
parented47a7d00c22b326fc4c97342a73ecd15929732e (diff)
Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: udf: Cleanup metadata flags handling udf: Skip mirror metadata FE loading when metadata FE is ok ext3: Allow quota file use root reservation udf: Remove web reference from UDF MAINTAINERS entry quota: Drop path reference on error exit from quotactl udf: Neaten udf_debug uses udf: Neaten logging output, use vsprintf extension %pV udf: Convert printks to pr_<level> udf: Rename udf_warning to udf_warn udf: Rename udf_error to udf_err udf: Promote some debugging messages to udf_error ext3: Remove the obsolete broken EXT3_IOC32_WAIT_FOR_READONLY. udf: Add readpages support for udf. ext3/balloc.c: local functions should be static ext2: fix the outdated comment in ext2_nfs_get_inode() ext3: remove deprecated oldalloc fs/ext3/balloc.c: delete useless initialization fs/ext2/balloc.c: delete useless initialization ext3: fix message in ext3_remount for rw-remount case ext3: Remove i_mutex from ext3_sync_file() Fix up trivial (printf format cleanup) conflicts in fs/udf/udfdecl.h
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext3/fsync.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext3/fsync.c10
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext3/fsync.c b/fs/ext3/fsync.c
index d494c554c6e..1860ed35632 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/fsync.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/fsync.c
@@ -61,13 +61,6 @@ int ext3_sync_file(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
if (ret)
goto out;
- /*
- * Taking the mutex here just to keep consistent with how fsync was
- * called previously, however it looks like we don't need to take
- * i_mutex at all.
- */
- mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-
J_ASSERT(ext3_journal_current_handle() == NULL);
/*
@@ -85,7 +78,6 @@ int ext3_sync_file(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
* safe in-journal, which is all fsync() needs to ensure.
*/
if (ext3_should_journal_data(inode)) {
- mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
ret = ext3_force_commit(inode->i_sb);
goto out;
}
@@ -108,8 +100,6 @@ int ext3_sync_file(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
*/
if (needs_barrier)
blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
-
- mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
out:
trace_ext3_sync_file_exit(inode, ret);
return ret;