[PATCH] issue storage dev flush from generic file_fsync helper

Jeff Garzik
2009-03-27T20:50:59Z

Simple and legacy blkdev-based filesystems such HFS, HFS+, ADFS, AFFS,
FAT, bfs, UFS, NTFS, and qnx4 all use file_fsync as their fsync(2)
VFS helper implementation.

Add a storage dev cache flush, to actually provide the guarantees that
are promised with fsync(2).

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
---

Out of 18 other places that call sync_blockdev(), only 3-4 are in
filesystems that arguably do not need or want a blkdev flush. This
patch below clearly only addresses 1 out of ~15 callsites that really do
want metadata, data, and everything in between flushed to disk at the
sync_blockdev() callsite.

It should be noted that other calls are NOT used in fsync(2), but
rather than with guaranteed written data prior to major events such
as unmount, journal close, MD consistency check, etc.

diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c
index a16d53e..24bb2f4 100644
--- a/fs/sync.c
+++ b/fs/sync.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/file.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/writeback.h>
@@ -72,6 +73,13 @@ int file_fsync(struct file *filp, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
err = sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev);
if (!ret)
ret = err;
+
+ err = blkdev_issue_flush(sb->s_bdev, NULL);
+ if (err == -EOPNOTSUPP)
+ err = 0;
+ if (!ret)
+ ret = err;
+
return ret;
}