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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2009-04-27 16:43:51 +0200
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2009-06-11 21:36:03 -0400
commit5cee5815d1564bbbd505fea86f4550f1efdb5cd0 (patch)
treeba99c38932dc534bf56f0d7dcfeeca153f50b007 /fs/fs-writeback.c
parent429479f031322a0cc5c921ffb2321a51718dc875 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fs-writeback.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/fs-writeback.c49
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 49 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 91013ff7dd5..e0fb2e78959 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -679,55 +679,6 @@ void sync_inodes_sb(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
}
/**
- * sync_inodes - writes all inodes to disk
- * @wait: wait for completion
- *
- * sync_inodes() goes through each super block's dirty inode list, writes the
- * inodes out, waits on the writeout and puts the inodes back on the normal
- * list.
- *
- * This is for sys_sync(). fsync_dev() uses the same algorithm. The subtle
- * part of the sync functions is that the blockdev "superblock" is processed
- * last. This is because the write_inode() function of a typical fs will
- * perform no I/O, but will mark buffers in the blockdev mapping as dirty.
- * What we want to do is to perform all that dirtying first, and then write
- * back all those inode blocks via the blockdev mapping in one sweep. So the
- * additional (somewhat redundant) sync_blockdev() calls here are to make
- * sure that really happens. Because if we call sync_inodes_sb(wait=1) with
- * outstanding dirty inodes, the writeback goes block-at-a-time within the
- * filesystem's write_inode(). This is extremely slow.
- */
-static void __sync_inodes(int wait)
-{
- struct super_block *sb;
-
- spin_lock(&sb_lock);
-restart:
- list_for_each_entry(sb, &super_blocks, s_list) {
- sb->s_count++;
- spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
- down_read(&sb->s_umount);
- if (sb->s_root) {
- sync_inodes_sb(sb, wait);
- sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev);
- }
- up_read(&sb->s_umount);
- spin_lock(&sb_lock);
- if (__put_super_and_need_restart(sb))
- goto restart;
- }
- spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
-}
-
-void sync_inodes(int wait)
-{
- __sync_inodes(0);
-
- if (wait)
- __sync_inodes(1);
-}
-
-/**
* write_inode_now - write an inode to disk
* @inode: inode to write to disk
* @sync: whether the write should be synchronous or not