swh:1:snp:173f8deb0c56c557784b4fd217e7608ac6197844
Tip revision: 49914084e797530d9baaf51df9eda77babc98fa8 authored by Linus Torvalds on 24 January 2008, 22:58:37 UTC
Linux 2.6.24
Linux 2.6.24
Tip revision: 4991408
fsync.c
/*
* linux/fs/ext4/fsync.c
*
* Copyright (C) 1993 Stephen Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
* from
* Copyright (C) 1992 Remy Card (card@masi.ibp.fr)
* Laboratoire MASI - Institut Blaise Pascal
* Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
* from
* linux/fs/minix/truncate.c Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Linus Torvalds
*
* ext4fs fsync primitive
*
* Big-endian to little-endian byte-swapping/bitmaps by
* David S. Miller (davem@caip.rutgers.edu), 1995
*
* Removed unnecessary code duplication for little endian machines
* and excessive __inline__s.
* Andi Kleen, 1997
*
* Major simplications and cleanup - we only need to do the metadata, because
* we can depend on generic_block_fdatasync() to sync the data blocks.
*/
#include <linux/time.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/writeback.h>
#include <linux/jbd2.h>
#include <linux/ext4_fs.h>
#include <linux/ext4_jbd2.h>
/*
* akpm: A new design for ext4_sync_file().
*
* This is only called from sys_fsync(), sys_fdatasync() and sys_msync().
* There cannot be a transaction open by this task.
* Another task could have dirtied this inode. Its data can be in any
* state in the journalling system.
*
* What we do is just kick off a commit and wait on it. This will snapshot the
* inode to disk.
*/
int ext4_sync_file(struct file * file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
{
struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
int ret = 0;
J_ASSERT(ext4_journal_current_handle() == NULL);
/*
* data=writeback:
* The caller's filemap_fdatawrite()/wait will sync the data.
* sync_inode() will sync the metadata
*
* data=ordered:
* The caller's filemap_fdatawrite() will write the data and
* sync_inode() will write the inode if it is dirty. Then the caller's
* filemap_fdatawait() will wait on the pages.
*
* data=journal:
* filemap_fdatawrite won't do anything (the buffers are clean).
* ext4_force_commit will write the file data into the journal and
* will wait on that.
* filemap_fdatawait() will encounter a ton of newly-dirtied pages
* (they were dirtied by commit). But that's OK - the blocks are
* safe in-journal, which is all fsync() needs to ensure.
*/
if (ext4_should_journal_data(inode)) {
ret = ext4_force_commit(inode->i_sb);
goto out;
}
/*
* The VFS has written the file data. If the inode is unaltered
* then we need not start a commit.
*/
if (inode->i_state & (I_DIRTY_SYNC|I_DIRTY_DATASYNC)) {
struct writeback_control wbc = {
.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
.nr_to_write = 0, /* sys_fsync did this */
};
ret = sync_inode(inode, &wbc);
}
out:
return ret;
}