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>
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 41a9907..f00df65 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1321,7 +1321,7 @@
struct rw_semaphore s_umount;
struct mutex s_lock;
int s_count;
- int s_need_sync_fs;
+ int s_need_sync;
atomic_t s_active;
#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
void *s_security;