2 * linux/fs/ext4/fsync.c
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
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>
33 #include "ext4_jbd2.h"
35 #include <trace/events/ext4.h>
38 * akpm: A new design for ext4_sync_file().
40 * This is only called from sys_fsync(), sys_fdatasync() and sys_msync().
41 * There cannot be a transaction open by this task.
42 * Another task could have dirtied this inode. Its data can be in any
43 * state in the journalling system.
45 * What we do is just kick off a commit and wait on it. This will snapshot the
48 * i_mutex lock is held when entering and exiting this function
51 int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
53 struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
54 journal_t *journal = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal;
57 J_ASSERT(ext4_journal_current_handle() == NULL);
59 trace_ext4_sync_file(file, dentry, datasync);
61 ret = flush_aio_dio_completed_IO(inode);
66 * The caller's filemap_fdatawrite()/wait will sync the data.
67 * sync_inode() will sync the metadata
70 * The caller's filemap_fdatawrite() will write the data and
71 * sync_inode() will write the inode if it is dirty. Then the caller's
72 * filemap_fdatawait() will wait on the pages.
75 * filemap_fdatawrite won't do anything (the buffers are clean).
76 * ext4_force_commit will write the file data into the journal and
78 * filemap_fdatawait() will encounter a ton of newly-dirtied pages
79 * (they were dirtied by commit). But that's OK - the blocks are
80 * safe in-journal, which is all fsync() needs to ensure.
82 if (ext4_should_journal_data(inode)) {
83 ret = ext4_force_commit(inode->i_sb);
88 ret = sync_mapping_buffers(inode->i_mapping);
90 if (datasync && !(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_DATASYNC))
94 * The VFS has written the file data. If the inode is unaltered
95 * then we need not start a commit.
97 if (inode->i_state & (I_DIRTY_SYNC|I_DIRTY_DATASYNC)) {
98 struct writeback_control wbc = {
99 .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
100 .nr_to_write = 0, /* sys_fsync did this */
102 err = sync_inode(inode, &wbc);
107 if (journal && (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER))
108 blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, NULL);