2 * linux/fs/ext4/fsync.c
4 * Copyright (C) 1993 Stephen Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
6 * Copyright (C) 1992 Remy Card (card@masi.ibp.fr)
7 * Laboratoire MASI - Institut Blaise Pascal
8 * Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
10 * linux/fs/minix/truncate.c Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Linus Torvalds
12 * ext4fs fsync primitive
14 * Big-endian to little-endian byte-swapping/bitmaps by
15 * David S. Miller (davem@caip.rutgers.edu), 1995
17 * Removed unnecessary code duplication for little endian machines
18 * and excessive __inline__s.
21 * Major simplications and cleanup - we only need to do the metadata, because
22 * we can depend on generic_block_fdatasync() to sync the data blocks.
25 #include <linux/time.h>
27 #include <linux/sched.h>
28 #include <linux/writeback.h>
29 #include <linux/jbd2.h>
30 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
32 #include "ext4_jbd2.h"
35 * akpm: A new design for ext4_sync_file().
37 * This is only called from sys_fsync(), sys_fdatasync() and sys_msync().
38 * There cannot be a transaction open by this task.
39 * Another task could have dirtied this inode. Its data can be in any
40 * state in the journalling system.
42 * What we do is just kick off a commit and wait on it. This will snapshot the
46 int ext4_sync_file(struct file * file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
48 struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
49 journal_t *journal = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal;
52 J_ASSERT(ext4_journal_current_handle() == NULL);
56 * The caller's filemap_fdatawrite()/wait will sync the data.
57 * sync_inode() will sync the metadata
60 * The caller's filemap_fdatawrite() will write the data and
61 * sync_inode() will write the inode if it is dirty. Then the caller's
62 * filemap_fdatawait() will wait on the pages.
65 * filemap_fdatawrite won't do anything (the buffers are clean).
66 * ext4_force_commit will write the file data into the journal and
68 * filemap_fdatawait() will encounter a ton of newly-dirtied pages
69 * (they were dirtied by commit). But that's OK - the blocks are
70 * safe in-journal, which is all fsync() needs to ensure.
72 if (ext4_should_journal_data(inode)) {
73 ret = ext4_force_commit(inode->i_sb);
77 if (datasync && !(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_DATASYNC))
81 * The VFS has written the file data. If the inode is unaltered
82 * then we need not start a commit.
84 if (inode->i_state & (I_DIRTY_SYNC|I_DIRTY_DATASYNC)) {
85 struct writeback_control wbc = {
86 .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
87 .nr_to_write = 0, /* sys_fsync did this */
89 ret = sync_inode(inode, &wbc);
90 if (journal && (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER))
91 blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, NULL);