[PATCH] remove do_sync parameter from __invalidate_device
The only caller that ever sets it can call fsync_bdev itself easily. Also
update some comments.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 90a110f..801fe7f 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
* This is needed for the following functions:
* - inode_has_buffers
* - invalidate_inode_buffers
- * - fsync_bdev
* - invalidate_bdev
*
* FIXME: remove all knowledge of the buffer layer from this file
@@ -332,14 +331,6 @@
return busy;
}
-/*
- * This is a two-stage process. First we collect all
- * offending inodes onto the throw-away list, and in
- * the second stage we actually dispose of them. This
- * is because we don't want to sleep while messing
- * with the global lists..
- */
-
/**
* invalidate_inodes - discard the inodes on a device
* @sb: superblock
@@ -366,16 +357,11 @@
EXPORT_SYMBOL(invalidate_inodes);
-int __invalidate_device(struct block_device *bdev, int do_sync)
+int __invalidate_device(struct block_device *bdev)
{
- struct super_block *sb;
- int res;
+ struct super_block *sb = get_super(bdev);
+ int res = 0;
- if (do_sync)
- fsync_bdev(bdev);
-
- res = 0;
- sb = get_super(bdev);
if (sb) {
/*
* no need to lock the super, get_super holds the
@@ -390,7 +376,6 @@
invalidate_bdev(bdev, 0);
return res;
}
-
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__invalidate_device);
static int can_unuse(struct inode *inode)