Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext2: Add blk_issue_flush() to syncing paths

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:04:18 -0500
Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:18:34AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > /**
> >  * blkdev_issue_flush - queue a flush
> >  * @bdev:	blockdev to issue flush for
> >  * @error_sector:	error sector
> >  *
> >  * Description:
> >  *    Issue a flush for the block device in question. Caller can supply
> >  *    room for storing the error offset in case of a flush error, if they
> >  *    wish to.  Caller must run wait_for_completion() on its own.
> >  */
> > 
> > So afaict the change you've made is incomplete.  We'll queue a
> > writeback command to the disk but we won't wait for it to be sent down
> > the wire.  
> 
> No, that last part of the comment is stale, and it's already been
> confirmed by Jens.   He's queued in the block tree:
> 
> >From 801d773a6ff5dbb37c9eaa4b89ae3fc6574ba294 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:25:08 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] block: Fix documentation for blkdev_issue_flush()
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
> ---
>  block/blk-barrier.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-barrier.c b/block/blk-barrier.c
> index 8eba4e4..f7dae57 100644
> --- a/block/blk-barrier.c
> +++ b/block/blk-barrier.c
> @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ static void bio_end_empty_barrier(struct bio *bio, int err)
>   * Description:
>   *    Issue a flush for the block device in question. Caller can supply
>   *    room for storing the error offset in case of a flush error, if they
> - *    wish to.  Caller must run wait_for_completion() on its own.
> + *    wish to.
>   */
>  int blkdev_issue_flush(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t *error_sector)
>  {

<glances at the code>

<doh>

The function's name is now inappropriate.