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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2010-05-10 11:59:37 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2010-05-10 14:20:42 +0200 |
| commit | dbb6be6d5e974c42bbecd183effaa0df69e1dd8b (patch) | |
| tree | 5735cb47e70853d057a9881dd0ce44b83e88fa63 /fs/block_dev.c | |
| parent | 6a867a395558a7f882d041783e4cdea6744ca2bf (diff) | |
| parent | b57f95a38233a2e73b679bea4a5453a1cc2a1cc9 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into timers/core
Reason: Further posix_cpu_timer patches depend on mainline changes
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/block_dev.c')
| -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, |