/* * linux/fs/ext4/fsync.c * * Copyright (C) 1993 Stephen Tweedie (sct@redhat.com) * from * Copyright (C) 1992 Remy Card (card@masi.ibp.fr) * Laboratoire MASI - Institut Blaise Pascal * Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) * from * linux/fs/minix/truncate.c Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Linus Torvalds * * ext4fs fsync primitive * * Big-endian to little-endian byte-swapping/bitmaps by * David S. Miller (davem@caip.rutgers.edu), 1995 * * Removed unnecessary code duplication for little endian machines * and excessive __inline__s. * Andi Kleen, 1997 * * Major simplications and cleanup - we only need to do the metadata, because * we can depend on generic_block_fdatasync() to sync the data blocks. */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include "ext4.h" #include "ext4_jbd2.h" /* * akpm: A new design for ext4_sync_file(). * * This is only called from sys_fsync(), sys_fdatasync() and sys_msync(). * There cannot be a transaction open by this task. * Another task could have dirtied this inode. Its data can be in any * state in the journalling system. * * What we do is just kick off a commit and wait on it. This will snapshot the * inode to disk. */ int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync) { struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode; journal_t *journal = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal; int ret = 0; J_ASSERT(ext4_journal_current_handle() == NULL); trace_mark(ext4_sync_file, "dev %s datasync %d ino %ld parent %ld", inode->i_sb->s_id, datasync, inode->i_ino, dentry->d_parent->d_inode->i_ino); /* * data=writeback: * The caller's filemap_fdatawrite()/wait will sync the data. * sync_inode() will sync the metadata * * data=ordered: * The caller's filemap_fdatawrite() will write the data and * sync_inode() will write the inode if it is dirty. Then the caller's * filemap_fdatawait() will wait on the pages. * * data=journal: * filemap_fdatawrite won't do anything (the buffers are clean). * ext4_force_commit will write the file data into the journal and * will wait on that. * filemap_fdatawait() will encounter a ton of newly-dirtied pages * (they were dirtied by commit). But that's OK - the blocks are * safe in-journal, which is all fsync() needs to ensure. */ if (ext4_should_journal_data(inode)) { ret = ext4_force_commit(inode->i_sb); goto out; } if (datasync && !(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_DATASYNC)) goto out; /* * The VFS has written the file data. If the inode is unaltered * then we need not start a commit. */ if (inode->i_state & (I_DIRTY_SYNC|I_DIRTY_DATASYNC)) { struct writeback_control wbc = { .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL, .nr_to_write = 0, /* sys_fsync did this */ }; ret = sync_inode(inode, &wbc); if (journal && (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER)) blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, NULL); } out: return ret; }