cleanup sync_supers
Merge the write_super helper into sync_super and move the check for
->write_super earlier so that we can avoid grabbing a reference to
a superblock that doesn't have it.
While we're at it also add a little comment documenting sync_supers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index d9a29d5..cb19fff 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -399,16 +399,14 @@
EXPORT_SYMBOL(drop_super);
-static inline void write_super(struct super_block *sb)
-{
- lock_super(sb);
- if (sb->s_root && sb->s_dirt)
- if (sb->s_op->write_super)
- sb->s_op->write_super(sb);
- unlock_super(sb);
-}
-
-/*
+/**
+ * sync_supers - helper for periodic superblock writeback
+ *
+ * Call the write_super method if present on all dirty superblocks in
+ * the system. This is for the periodic writeback used by most older
+ * filesystems. For data integrity superblock writeback use
+ * sync_filesystems() instead.
+ *
* Note: check the dirty flag before waiting, so we don't
* hold up the sync while mounting a device. (The newly
* mounted device won't need syncing.)
@@ -420,12 +418,17 @@
spin_lock(&sb_lock);
restart:
list_for_each_entry(sb, &super_blocks, s_list) {
- if (sb->s_dirt) {
+ if (sb->s_op->write_super && sb->s_dirt) {
sb->s_count++;
spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
+
down_read(&sb->s_umount);
- write_super(sb);
+ lock_super(sb);
+ if (sb->s_root && sb->s_dirt)
+ sb->s_op->write_super(sb);
+ unlock_super(sb);
up_read(&sb->s_umount);
+
spin_lock(&sb_lock);
if (__put_super_and_need_restart(sb))
goto restart;