fs: add sync_inode_metadata
Add a new helper to write out the inode using the writeback code,
that is including the correct dirty bit and list manipulation. A few
of filesystems already opencode this, and a lot of others should be
using it instead of using write_inode_now which also writes out the
data.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
index 661a6cf..184938f 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
@@ -281,23 +281,13 @@
{
struct inode *inode = fhp->fh_dentry->d_inode;
const struct export_operations *export_ops = inode->i_sb->s_export_op;
- int error = 0;
if (!EX_ISSYNC(fhp->fh_export))
return 0;
- if (export_ops->commit_metadata) {
- error = export_ops->commit_metadata(inode);
- } else {
- struct writeback_control wbc = {
- .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
- .nr_to_write = 0, /* metadata only */
- };
-
- error = sync_inode(inode, &wbc);
- }
-
- return error;
+ if (export_ops->commit_metadata)
+ return export_ops->commit_metadata(inode);
+ return sync_inode_metadata(inode, 1);
}
/*