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| author | Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> | 2014-06-05 03:06:27 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-06-05 03:53:55 +0400 |
| commit | ac13a829f6adb674015ab399594c089990104af7 (patch) | |
| tree | 29f0b78758080bac01307e705371283a406b41c4 /include/linux | |
| parent | fd2916bd77109b69891573fd1e1205ecc619893e (diff) | |
| download | linux-ac13a829f6adb674015ab399594c089990104af7.tar.xz | |
fs/libfs.c: add generic data flush to fsync
Description by Jan Kara:
"A lot of older filesystems don't properly flush volatile disk caches
on fsync(2) which can lead to loss of fsynced data after power failure.
This patch makes generic_file_fsync() issue proper cache flush to fix the
problem. Sysadmin can use /sys/devices/.../cache_type to tell the system
it should not send the cache flush."
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuke ifdef]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/blkdev.h | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 1 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index 8aba35f46f87..45cf6e537c83 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -1607,6 +1607,9 @@ struct block_device_operations { extern int __blkdev_driver_ioctl(struct block_device *, fmode_t, unsigned int, unsigned long); #else /* CONFIG_BLOCK */ + +struct block_device; + /* * stubs for when the block layer is configured out */ @@ -1642,6 +1645,12 @@ static inline bool blk_needs_flush_plug(struct task_struct *tsk) return false; } +static inline int blkdev_issue_flush(struct block_device *bdev, gfp_t gfp_mask, + sector_t *error_sector) +{ + return 0; +} + #endif /* CONFIG_BLOCK */ #endif diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 878031227c57..c3f46e499dd0 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -2590,6 +2590,7 @@ extern ssize_t simple_read_from_buffer(void __user *to, size_t count, extern ssize_t simple_write_to_buffer(void *to, size_t available, loff_t *ppos, const void __user *from, size_t count); +extern int __generic_file_fsync(struct file *, loff_t, loff_t, int); extern int generic_file_fsync(struct file *, loff_t, loff_t, int); extern int generic_check_addressable(unsigned, u64); |