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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/fs-writeback.c | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/writeback.h | 1 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index 3be5718..a85ac4e 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ struct wb_writeback_work { unsigned int for_kupdate:1; unsigned int range_cyclic:1; unsigned int for_background:1; + unsigned int for_sync:1; /* sync(2) WB_SYNC_ALL writeback */ enum wb_reason reason; /* why was writeback initiated? */ struct list_head list; /* pending work list */ @@ -443,9 +444,11 @@ __writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc) /* * Make sure to wait on the data before writing out the metadata. * This is important for filesystems that modify metadata on data - * I/O completion. + * I/O completion. We don't do it for sync(2) writeback because it has a + * separate, external IO completion path and ->sync_fs for guaranteeing + * inode metadata is written back correctly. */ - if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) { + if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL && !wbc->for_sync) { int err = filemap_fdatawait(mapping); if (ret == 0) ret = err; @@ -578,6 +581,7 @@ static long writeback_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb, .tagged_writepages = work->tagged_writepages, .for_kupdate = work->for_kupdate, .for_background = work->for_background, + .for_sync = work->for_sync, .range_cyclic = work->range_cyclic, .range_start = 0, .range_end = LLONG_MAX, @@ -1362,6 +1366,7 @@ void sync_inodes_sb(struct super_block *sb) .range_cyclic = 0, .done = &done, .reason = WB_REASON_SYNC, + .for_sync = 1, }; /* Nothing to do? */ diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h index 579a500..abfe117 100644 --- a/include/linux/writeback.h +++ b/include/linux/writeback.h @@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ struct writeback_control { unsigned tagged_writepages:1; /* tag-and-write to avoid livelock */ unsigned for_reclaim:1; /* Invoked from the page allocator */ unsigned range_cyclic:1; /* range_start is cyclic */ + unsigned for_sync:1; /* sync(2) WB_SYNC_ALL writeback */ }; /* |