1 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
3 * linux/fs/ext4/fsync.c
8 * Laboratoire MASI - Institut Blaise Pascal
9 * Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
11 * linux/fs/minix/truncate.c Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Linus Torvalds
13 * ext4fs fsync primitive
15 * Big-endian to little-endian byte-swapping/bitmaps by
18 * Removed unnecessary code duplication for little endian machines
19 * and excessive __inline__s.
22 * Major simplications and cleanup - we only need to do the metadata, because
23 * we can depend on generic_block_fdatasync() to sync the data blocks.
26 #include <linux/time.h>
28 #include <linux/sched.h>
29 #include <linux/writeback.h>
30 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
33 #include "ext4_jbd2.h"
35 #include <trace/events/ext4.h>
38 * If we're not journaling and this is a just-created file, we have to
39 * sync our parent directory (if it was freshly created) since
40 * otherwise it will only be written by writeback, leaving a huge
41 * window during which a crash may lose the file. This may apply for
42 * the parent directory's parent as well, and so on recursively, if
43 * they are also freshly created.
45 static int ext4_sync_parent(struct inode *inode)
47 struct dentry *dentry = NULL;
51 if (!ext4_test_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_NEWENTRY))
54 while (ext4_test_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_NEWENTRY)) {
55 ext4_clear_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_NEWENTRY);
56 dentry = d_find_any_alias(inode);
59 next = igrab(d_inode(dentry->d_parent));
66 * The directory inode may have gone through rmdir by now. But
67 * the inode itself and its blocks are still allocated (we hold
68 * a reference to the inode so it didn't go through
69 * ext4_evict_inode()) and so we are safe to flush metadata
70 * blocks and the inode.
72 ret = sync_mapping_buffers(inode->i_mapping);
75 ret = sync_inode_metadata(inode, 1);
83 static int ext4_fsync_nojournal(struct inode *inode, bool datasync,
88 ret = sync_mapping_buffers(inode->i_mapping);
89 if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_ALL))
91 if (datasync && !(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_DATASYNC))
94 err = sync_inode_metadata(inode, 1);
99 ret = ext4_sync_parent(inode);
100 if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, BARRIER))
101 *needs_barrier = true;
106 static int ext4_fsync_journal(struct inode *inode, bool datasync,
109 struct ext4_inode_info *ei = EXT4_I(inode);
110 journal_t *journal = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal;
111 tid_t commit_tid = datasync ? ei->i_datasync_tid : ei->i_sync_tid;
113 if (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER &&
114 !jbd2_trans_will_send_data_barrier(journal, commit_tid))
115 *needs_barrier = true;
117 return jbd2_complete_transaction(journal, commit_tid);
121 * akpm: A new design for ext4_sync_file().
123 * This is only called from sys_fsync(), sys_fdatasync() and sys_msync().
124 * There cannot be a transaction open by this task.
125 * Another task could have dirtied this inode. Its data can be in any
126 * state in the journalling system.
128 * What we do is just kick off a commit and wait on it. This will snapshot the
131 int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
134 bool needs_barrier = false;
135 struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
136 struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb);
138 if (unlikely(ext4_forced_shutdown(sbi)))
141 J_ASSERT(ext4_journal_current_handle() == NULL);
143 trace_ext4_sync_file_enter(file, datasync);
145 if (sb_rdonly(inode->i_sb)) {
146 /* Make sure that we read updated s_mount_flags value */
148 if (sbi->s_mount_flags & EXT4_MF_FS_ABORTED)
153 ret = file_write_and_wait_range(file, start, end);
158 * data=writeback,ordered:
159 * The caller's filemap_fdatawrite()/wait will sync the data.
160 * Metadata is in the journal, we wait for proper transaction to
164 * filemap_fdatawrite won't do anything (the buffers are clean).
165 * ext4_force_commit will write the file data into the journal and
167 * filemap_fdatawait() will encounter a ton of newly-dirtied pages
168 * (they were dirtied by commit). But that's OK - the blocks are
169 * safe in-journal, which is all fsync() needs to ensure.
172 ret = ext4_fsync_nojournal(inode, datasync, &needs_barrier);
173 else if (ext4_should_journal_data(inode))
174 ret = ext4_force_commit(inode->i_sb);
176 ret = ext4_fsync_journal(inode, datasync, &needs_barrier);
179 err = blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
184 err = file_check_and_advance_wb_err(file);
187 trace_ext4_sync_file_exit(inode, ret);