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| author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2010-05-07 11:29:25 +1000 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2010-05-07 11:29:25 +1000 |
| commit | 1ed31d6db90d51010545921e59d369d2f92b7ac2 (patch) | |
| tree | 358a0b346bc8135cd5e53700eb44308b1a7c8c5b /fs/block_dev.c | |
| parent | ceba1abcb00b0ef0b1efcd715285f6e05523edef (diff) | |
| parent | 722154e4cacf015161efe60009ae9be23d492296 (diff) | |
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Merge commit 'origin/master' into next
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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/block_dev.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c index d11d0289f3d2..6dcee88c2e5d 100644 --- a/fs/block_dev.c +++ b/fs/block_dev.c @@ -404,20 +404,28 @@ static loff_t block_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin) * NULL first argument is nfsd_sync_dir() and that's not a directory. */ -static int block_fsync(struct file *filp, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync) +int blkdev_fsync(struct file *filp, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync) { - struct block_device *bdev = I_BDEV(filp->f_mapping->host); + struct inode *bd_inode = filp->f_mapping->host; + struct block_device *bdev = I_BDEV(bd_inode); int error; - error = sync_blockdev(bdev); - if (error) - return error; - + /* + * There is no need to serialise calls to blkdev_issue_flush with + * i_mutex and doing so causes performance issues with concurrent + * O_SYNC writers to a block device. + */ + mutex_unlock(&bd_inode->i_mutex); + error = blkdev_issue_flush(bdev, NULL); if (error == -EOPNOTSUPP) error = 0; + + mutex_lock(&bd_inode->i_mutex); + return error; } +EXPORT_SYMBOL(blkdev_fsync); /* * pseudo-fs @@ -1481,7 +1489,7 @@ const struct file_operations def_blk_fops = { .aio_read = generic_file_aio_read, .aio_write = blkdev_aio_write, .mmap = generic_file_mmap, - .fsync = block_fsync, + .fsync = blkdev_fsync, .unlocked_ioctl = block_ioctl, #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT .compat_ioctl = compat_blkdev_ioctl, |
