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authorEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>2008-07-11 19:27:31 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2008-07-11 19:27:31 -0400
commitd755fb384250d6bd7fd18a0930e71965acc8e72e (patch)
tree7913bce90918cd26c8a5fe05f6c8943828e333bb /fs/ext4/fsync.c
parent654b4908bc17a6318d18f3036fecc5155de92f55 (diff)
ext4: call blkdev_issue_flush on fsync
To ensure that bits are truly on-disk after an fsync, we should call blkdev_issue_flush if barriers are supported. Inspired by an old thread on barriers, by reiserfs & xfs which do the same, and by a patch SuSE ships with their kernel Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/fsync.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/fsync.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/fsync.c b/fs/ext4/fsync.c
index 1c8ba48d4f8..a45c3737ad3 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/fsync.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/fsync.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/writeback.h>
#include <linux/jbd2.h>
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
#include "ext4.h"
#include "ext4_jbd2.h"
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@
int ext4_sync_file(struct file * file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
{
struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
+ journal_t *journal = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal;
int ret = 0;
J_ASSERT(ext4_journal_current_handle() == NULL);
@@ -85,6 +87,8 @@ int ext4_sync_file(struct file * file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
.nr_to_write = 0, /* sys_fsync did this */
};
ret = sync_inode(inode, &wbc);
+ if (journal && (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER))
+ blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, NULL);
}
out:
return ret;