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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fs-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/fs-writeback.c | 49 |
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 |