2 * linux/fs/ext3/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 * ext3fs 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>
26 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
28 #include <linux/sched.h>
29 #include <linux/writeback.h>
30 #include <linux/jbd.h>
31 #include <linux/ext3_fs.h>
32 #include <linux/ext3_jbd.h>
35 * akpm: A new design for ext3_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 ext3_sync_file(struct file * file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
48 struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
49 struct ext3_inode_info *ei = EXT3_I(inode);
50 journal_t *journal = EXT3_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal;
54 if (inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)
57 J_ASSERT(ext3_journal_current_handle() == NULL);
60 * data=writeback,ordered:
61 * The caller's filemap_fdatawrite()/wait will sync the data.
62 * Metadata is in the journal, we wait for a proper transaction
66 * filemap_fdatawrite won't do anything (the buffers are clean).
67 * ext3_force_commit will write the file data into the journal and
69 * filemap_fdatawait() will encounter a ton of newly-dirtied pages
70 * (they were dirtied by commit). But that's OK - the blocks are
71 * safe in-journal, which is all fsync() needs to ensure.
73 if (ext3_should_journal_data(inode)) {
74 ret = ext3_force_commit(inode->i_sb);
79 commit_tid = atomic_read(&ei->i_datasync_tid);
81 commit_tid = atomic_read(&ei->i_sync_tid);
83 if (log_start_commit(journal, commit_tid)) {
84 log_wait_commit(journal, commit_tid);
89 * In case we didn't commit a transaction, we have to flush
90 * disk caches manually so that data really is on persistent
93 if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, BARRIER))
94 blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, NULL);