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vfs: Make sys_sync writeout also block device inodes 

In case block device does not have filesystem mounted on it, sys_sync will just
ignore it and doesn't writeout its dirty pages. This is because writeback code
avoids writing inodes from superblock without backing device and
blockdev_superblock is such a superblock.  Since it's unexpected that sync
doesn't writeout dirty data for block devices be nice to users and change the
behavior to do so. So now we iterate over all block devices on blockdev_super
instead of iterating over all superblocks when syncing block devices.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Jan Kara 2012-07-03 16:45:32 +02:00 committed by Al Viro
parent 5c0d6b60a0
commit a8c7176b6d
1 changed files with 11 additions and 7 deletions
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fs/sync.c
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@ -85,10 +85,14 @@ static void sync_fs_one_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *arg)
sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, *(int *)arg);
}
static void sync_blkdev_one_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *arg)
static void flush_one_bdev(struct block_device *bdev, void *arg)
{
if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
__sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev, *(int *)arg);
__sync_blockdev(bdev, 0);
}
static void sync_one_bdev(struct block_device *bdev, void *arg)
{
sync_blockdev(bdev);
}
/*
@ -102,10 +106,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE0(sync)
wakeup_flusher_threads(0, WB_REASON_SYNC);
iterate_supers(writeback_inodes_one_sb, NULL);
iterate_supers(sync_fs_one_sb, &nowait);
iterate_supers(sync_blkdev_one_sb, &nowait);
iterate_bdevs(flush_one_bdev, NULL);
iterate_supers(sync_inodes_one_sb, NULL);
iterate_supers(sync_fs_one_sb, &wait);
iterate_supers(sync_blkdev_one_sb, &wait);
iterate_bdevs(sync_one_bdev, NULL);
if (unlikely(laptop_mode))
laptop_sync_completion();
return 0;
@ -121,10 +125,10 @@ static void do_sync_work(struct work_struct *work)
*/
iterate_supers(sync_inodes_one_sb, &nowait);
iterate_supers(sync_fs_one_sb, &nowait);
iterate_supers(sync_blkdev_one_sb, &nowait);
iterate_bdevs(flush_one_bdev, NULL);
iterate_supers(sync_inodes_one_sb, &nowait);
iterate_supers(sync_fs_one_sb, &nowait);
iterate_supers(sync_blkdev_one_sb, &nowait);
iterate_bdevs(flush_one_bdev, NULL);
printk("Emergency Sync complete\n");
kfree(work);
}