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>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index fe47f722761..4b6a3b9d01e 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -176,17 +176,22 @@ blkdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
 				iov, offset, nr_segs, blkdev_get_blocks, NULL);
 }
 
+int __sync_blockdev(struct block_device *bdev, int wait)
+{
+	if (!bdev)
+		return 0;
+	if (!wait)
+		return filemap_flush(bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping);
+	return filemap_write_and_wait(bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping);
+}
+
 /*
  * Write out and wait upon all the dirty data associated with a block
  * device via its mapping.  Does not take the superblock lock.
  */
 int sync_blockdev(struct block_device *bdev)
 {
-	int ret = 0;
-
-	if (bdev)
-		ret = filemap_write_and_wait(bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping);
-	return ret;
+	return __sync_blockdev(bdev, 1);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(sync_blockdev);