fsync.c

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/*
 *  linux/fs/ext3/fsync.c
 *
 *  Copyright (C) 1993  Stephen Tweedie ([email protected])
 *  from
 *  Copyright (C) 1992  Remy Card ([email protected])
 *                      Laboratoire MASI - Institut Blaise Pascal
 *                      Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
 *  from
 *  linux/fs/minix/truncate.c   Copyright (C) 1991, 1992  Linus Torvalds
 *
 *  ext3fs fsync primitive
 *
 *  Big-endian to little-endian byte-swapping/bitmaps by
 *        David S. Miller ([email protected]), 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 <linux/blkdev.h>
#include <linux/writeback.h>
#include "ext3.h"

/*
 * akpm: A new design for ext3_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 ext3_sync_file(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
{
    struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
    struct ext3_inode_info *ei = EXT3_I(inode);
    journal_t *journal = EXT3_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal;
    int ret, needs_barrier = 0;
    tid_t commit_tid;

    trace_ext3_sync_file_enter(file, datasync);

    if (inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)
        return 0;

    ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(inode->i_mapping, start, end);
    if (ret)
        goto out;

    J_ASSERT(ext3_journal_current_handle() == NULL);

    /*
     * data=writeback,ordered:
     *  The caller's filemap_fdatawrite()/wait will sync the data.
     *  Metadata is in the journal, we wait for a proper transaction
     *  to commit here.
     *
     * data=journal:
     *  filemap_fdatawrite won't do anything (the buffers are clean).
     *  ext3_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 (ext3_should_journal_data(inode)) {
        ret = ext3_force_commit(inode->i_sb);
        goto out;
    }

    if (datasync)
        commit_tid = atomic_read(&ei->i_datasync_tid);
    else
        commit_tid = atomic_read(&ei->i_sync_tid);

    if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, BARRIER) &&
        !journal_trans_will_send_data_barrier(journal, commit_tid))
        needs_barrier = 1;
    log_start_commit(journal, commit_tid);
    ret = log_wait_commit(journal, commit_tid);

    /*
     * In case we didn't commit a transaction, we have to flush
     * disk caches manually so that data really is on persistent
     * storage
     */
    if (needs_barrier) {
        int err;

        err = blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
        if (!ret)
            ret = err;
    }
out:
    trace_ext3_sync_file_exit(inode, ret);
    return ret;
}