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31.Dd July 24, 1996
32.Os
33.Dt VOP_FSYNC 9
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm VOP_FSYNC
36.Nd flush file system buffers for a file
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.In sys/param.h
39.In sys/vnode.h
40.Ft int
41.Fn VOP_FSYNC "struct vnode *vp" "struct ucred *cred" "int waitfor" "struct thread *td"
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43This call flushes any dirty file system buffers for the file.
44It is used to implement the
45.Xr sync 2
46and
47.Xr fsync 2
48system calls.
49.Pp
50Its arguments are:
51.Bl -tag -width waitfor
52.It Fa vp
53the vnode of the file
54.It Fa cred
55the caller's credentials
56.It Fa waitfor
57whether the function should wait for I/O to complete.
58Possible values are:
59.Bl -tag -width MNT_NOWAIT
60.It Dv MNT_WAIT
61synchronously wait for I/O to complete
62.It Dv MNT_NOWAIT
63start all I/O, but do not wait for it
64.It Dv MNT_LAZY
65push data not written by file system syncer
66.El
67.It Fa td
68the calling thread
69.El
70.Pp
71The argument
72.Fa waitfor
73is either
74.Dv MNT_WAIT
75or
76.Dv MNT_NOWAIT
77and specifies whether or not the function should wait for the writes
78to finish before returning.
79.Sh LOCKS
80The file should be locked on entry.
81.Sh RETURN VALUES
82Zero is returned if the call is successful, otherwise an appropriate
83error code is returned.
84.Sh PSEUDOCODE
85.Bd -literal
86int
87vop_fsync(struct vnode *vp, struct ucred *cred, int waitfor, struct thread *td)
88{
89    struct buf *bp;
90    struct buf *nbp;
91    struct timeval tv;
92    int s;
93
94loop:
95    s = splbio();
96    for (bp = vp->v_dirtyblkhd.lh_first; bp; bp = nbp) {
97	nbp = bp->b_vnbufs.le_next;
98
99	/*
100	 * Ignore buffers which are already being written.
101	 */
102	if (bp->b_flags & B_BUSY)
103	    continue;
104
105	/*
106	 * Make sure the buffer is dirty.
107	 */
108	if ((bp->b_flags & B_DELWRI) == 0)
109	    panic("vop_fsync: not dirty");
110
111	vfs_bio_awrite(bp);
112	splx(s);
113	goto loop;
114    }
115    splx(s);
116
117    if (waitfor == MNT_WAIT) {
118	s = splbio();
119	while (vp->v_numoutput) {
120	    vp->v_flag |= VBWAIT;
121	    tsleep((caddr_t)&vp->v_numoutput, PRIBIO + 1, "vopfsn");
122	}
123	splx(s);
124#ifdef DIAGNOSTIC
125	if (vp->v_dirtyblkhd.lh_first) {
126	    vprint("vop_fsync: dirty", vp);
127	    goto loop;
128	}
129#endif
130    }
131
132    /*
133     * Write out the on-disc version of the vnode.
134     */
135    tv = time;
136    return VOP_UPDATE(vp, &tv, &tv, waitfor == MNT_WAIT);
137}
138.Ed
139.Sh ERRORS
140.Bl -tag -width Er
141.It Bq Er ENOSPC
142The file system is full.
143.It Bq Er EDQUOT
144Quota exceeded.
145.El
146.Sh SEE ALSO
147.Xr vnode 9
148.Sh AUTHORS
149This man page was written by
150.An Doug Rabson .
151