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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@kernel.org>
Cc: "Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 09/10] libfrog: improve ramdisk handling in platform_flush_device
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:12:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260925051336.2997014-10-hch@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260925051336.2997014-1-hch@lst.de>

The ramdisk driver was quirky for BLKFLSBUF, but there never was
any reason to skip the fsync.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
 copy/xfs_copy.c    |  2 +-
 libfrog/linux.c    | 13 ++++++-------
 libfrog/platform.h |  2 +-
 libxfs/init.c      |  2 +-
 libxfs/rdwr.c      |  6 ++++--
 5 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/copy/xfs_copy.c b/copy/xfs_copy.c
index 5435c87dba38..4692a4ffb961 100644
--- a/copy/xfs_copy.c
+++ b/copy/xfs_copy.c
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ check_errors(void)
 
 	for (i = 0; i < num_targets; i++)  {
 		if (target[i].state != INACTIVE) {
-			if (platform_flush_device(target[i].fd, 0)) {
+			if (platform_flush_device(target[i].fd)) {
 				target[i].error = errno;
 				target[i].state = INACTIVE;
 				target[i].err_type = 2;
diff --git a/libfrog/linux.c b/libfrog/linux.c
index 46a5ff39e2eb..5c0d3ed7e935 100644
--- a/libfrog/linux.c
+++ b/libfrog/linux.c
@@ -152,15 +152,11 @@ platform_set_blocksize(int fd, char *path, dev_t device, int blocksize,
  */
 int
 platform_flush_device(
-	int		fd,
-	dev_t		device)
+	int		fd)
 {
 	struct stat	st;
 	int		ret;
 
-	if (major(device) == RAMDISK_MAJOR)
-		return 0;
-
 	ret = fsync(fd);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
@@ -169,9 +165,12 @@ platform_flush_device(
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	if (S_ISBLK(st.st_mode))
+	/*
+	 * Historically the ram disk driver destroyed all data when BLKFLSBUF
+	 * was called.  That has been fixed a long time, but still be careful.
+	 */
+	if (S_ISBLK(st.st_mode) && major(st.st_rdev) != RAMDISK_MAJOR)
 		return ioctl(fd, BLKFLSBUF, 0);
-
 	return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/libfrog/platform.h b/libfrog/platform.h
index 20f9bdf5ce5b..39d558f08629 100644
--- a/libfrog/platform.h
+++ b/libfrog/platform.h
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ int platform_check_ismounted(char *path, char *block, struct stat *sptr,
 int platform_check_iswritable(char *path, char *block, struct stat *sptr);
 void platform_set_blocksize(int fd, char *path, dev_t device, int bsz,
 		bool fatal);
-int platform_flush_device(int fd, dev_t device);
+int platform_flush_device(int fd);
 int platform_direct_blockdev(void);
 int platform_align_blockdev(void);
 unsigned long platform_physmem(void);	/* in kilobytes */
diff --git a/libxfs/init.c b/libxfs/init.c
index 5a4b255165ab..4c71027d2805 100644
--- a/libxfs/init.c
+++ b/libxfs/init.c
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ libxfs_device_close(
 {
 	int			ret;
 
-	ret = platform_flush_device(dev->fd, dev->dev);
+	ret = platform_flush_device(dev->fd);
 	if (ret) {
 		ret = -errno;
 		fprintf(stderr,
diff --git a/libxfs/rdwr.c b/libxfs/rdwr.c
index 837288be0307..33a0d144a1aa 100644
--- a/libxfs/rdwr.c
+++ b/libxfs/rdwr.c
@@ -1112,8 +1112,10 @@ libxfs_blkdev_issue_flush(
 	if (btp->bt_dev == 0)
 		return 0;
 
-	ret = platform_flush_device(btp->bt_fd, btp->bt_dev);
-	return ret ? -errno : 0;
+	ret = platform_flush_device(btp->bt_fd);
+	if (ret)
+		return -errno;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 /*
-- 
2.53.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-25  5:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-25  5:12 fix missing RT detection in libxfs v2 Christoph Hellwig
2026-09-25  5:12 ` [PATCH 01/10] libxfs: refactor the reinit case in libxfs_buftarg_init Christoph Hellwig
2026-09-25 22:32   ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-09-25  5:12 ` [PATCH 02/10] libxfs: split error injection option parsing out of libxfs_buftarg_init Christoph Hellwig
2026-09-25 22:33   ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-09-25  5:12 ` [PATCH 03/10] libxfs: remove buftarg member aliases Christoph Hellwig
2026-09-25  5:12 ` [PATCH 04/10] libxfs: unify buftarg handling with the kernel Christoph Hellwig
2026-09-25 22:37   ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-09-26  5:59     ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-09-27 15:18       ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-09-25  5:12 ` [PATCH 05/10] libxfs: make the size check in rtmount_init internal RT device aware Christoph Hellwig
2026-09-25 22:38   ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-09-25  5:12 ` [PATCH 06/10] libxfs: don't clear ->dev in libxfs_device_close Christoph Hellwig
2026-09-25 22:39   ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-09-25  5:12 ` [PATCH 07/10] libxfs: fix buftarg initialization for the RT device Christoph Hellwig
2026-09-25 22:42   ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-09-25  5:12 ` [PATCH 08/10] libxfs: rename bt_bdev* Christoph Hellwig
2026-09-25 22:43   ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-09-25  5:12 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2026-09-25 22:47   ` [PATCH 09/10] libfrog: improve ramdisk handling in platform_flush_device Darrick J. Wong
2026-09-26  6:02     ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-09-27 15:22       ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-09-25  5:12 ` [PATCH 10/10] xfs_db: remove a double-whitespace in rdump_regfile_data Christoph Hellwig
2026-09-25 22:47   ` Darrick J. Wong

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