fs: sys_sync fix
authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:40:26 +0000 (14:40 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:59:09 +0000 (15:59 -0800)
commit856bf4d717feb8c55d4e2f817b71ebb70cfbc67b
treef44790d9b8f42223955d1866645103ac5f9c68a3
parent38f21977663126fef53f5585e7f1653d8ebe55c4
fs: sys_sync fix

s_syncing livelock avoidance was breaking data integrity guarantee of
sys_sync, by allowing sys_sync to skip writing or waiting for superblocks
if there is a concurrent sys_sync happening.

This livelock avoidance is much less important now that we don't have the
get_super_to_sync() call after every sb that we sync.  This was replaced
by __put_super_and_need_restart.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/fs-writeback.c
include/linux/fs.h