vfs: Introduce new helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode
Introduce new function for generic inode syncing (vfs_fsync_range) and use
it from fsync() path. Introduce also new helper for syncing after a sync
write (generic_write_sync) using the generic function.
Use these new helpers for syncing from generic VFS functions. This makes
O_SYNC writes to block devices acquire i_mutex for syncing. If we really
care about this, we can make block_fsync() drop the i_mutex and reacquire
it before it returns.
CC: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
CC: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
CC: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
CC: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
CC: xfs@oss.sgi.com
CC: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
CC: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
CC: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
CC: tytso@mit.edu
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 6c1be3a..e2c7f51 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2098,7 +2098,10 @@
extern int filemap_fdatawrite_range(struct address_space *mapping,
loff_t start, loff_t end);
+extern int vfs_fsync_range(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry,
+ loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync);
extern int vfs_fsync(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync);
+extern int generic_write_sync(struct file *file, loff_t pos, loff_t count);
extern void sync_supers(void);
extern void emergency_sync(void);
extern void emergency_remount(void);