From 0d34ec62e18984ac9476208660372306ef54e70d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:48:27 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: Remove syncing logic from ext4_file_write The syncing is now properly handled by generic_file_aio_write() so no special ext4 code is needed. CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org CC: tytso@mit.edu Signed-off-by: Jan Kara --- fs/ext4/file.c | 53 ++------------------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/file.c b/fs/ext4/file.c index 27f3c5354c0e..5ca3eca70a1e 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/file.c +++ b/fs/ext4/file.c @@ -58,10 +58,7 @@ static ssize_t ext4_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos) { - struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp; - struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode; - ssize_t ret; - int err; + struct inode *inode = iocb->ki_filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode; /* * If we have encountered a bitmap-format file, the size limit @@ -81,53 +78,7 @@ ext4_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov, } } - ret = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos); - /* - * Skip flushing if there was an error, or if nothing was written. - */ - if (ret <= 0) - return ret; - - /* - * If the inode is IS_SYNC, or is O_SYNC and we are doing data - * journalling then we need to make sure that we force the transaction - * to disk to keep all metadata uptodate synchronously. - */ - if (file->f_flags & O_SYNC) { - /* - * If we are non-data-journaled, then the dirty data has - * already been flushed to backing store by generic_osync_inode, - * and the inode has been flushed too if there have been any - * modifications other than mere timestamp updates. - * - * Open question --- do we care about flushing timestamps too - * if the inode is IS_SYNC? - */ - if (!ext4_should_journal_data(inode)) - return ret; - - goto force_commit; - } - - /* - * So we know that there has been no forced data flush. If the inode - * is marked IS_SYNC, we need to force one ourselves. - */ - if (!IS_SYNC(inode)) - return ret; - - /* - * Open question #2 --- should we force data to disk here too? If we - * don't, the only impact is that data=writeback filesystems won't - * flush data to disk automatically on IS_SYNC, only metadata (but - * historically, that is what ext2 has done.) - */ - -force_commit: - err = ext4_force_commit(inode->i_sb); - if (err) - return err; - return ret; + return generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos); } static struct vm_operations_struct ext4_file_vm_ops = { -- 2.20.1