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1 /*
2  *  linux/fs/ext4/fsync.c
3  *
4  *  Copyright (C) 1993  Stephen Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
5  *  from
6  *  Copyright (C) 1992  Remy Card (card@masi.ibp.fr)
7  *                      Laboratoire MASI - Institut Blaise Pascal
8  *                      Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
9  *  from
10  *  linux/fs/minix/truncate.c   Copyright (C) 1991, 1992  Linus Torvalds
11  *
12  *  ext4fs fsync primitive
13  *
14  *  Big-endian to little-endian byte-swapping/bitmaps by
15  *        David S. Miller (davem@caip.rutgers.edu), 1995
16  *
17  *  Removed unnecessary code duplication for little endian machines
18  *  and excessive __inline__s.
19  *        Andi Kleen, 1997
20  *
21  * Major simplications and cleanup - we only need to do the metadata, because
22  * we can depend on generic_block_fdatasync() to sync the data blocks.
23  */
24 
25 #include <linux/time.h>
26 #include <linux/fs.h>
27 #include <linux/sched.h>
28 #include <linux/writeback.h>
29 #include <linux/jbd2.h>
30 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
31 
32 #include "ext4.h"
33 #include "ext4_jbd2.h"
34 
35 #include <trace/events/ext4.h>
36 
37 /*
38  * akpm: A new design for ext4_sync_file().
39  *
40  * This is only called from sys_fsync(), sys_fdatasync() and sys_msync().
41  * There cannot be a transaction open by this task.
42  * Another task could have dirtied this inode.  Its data can be in any
43  * state in the journalling system.
44  *
45  * What we do is just kick off a commit and wait on it.  This will snapshot the
46  * inode to disk.
47  *
48  * i_mutex lock is held when entering and exiting this function
49  */
50 
51 int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
52 {
53 	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
54 	struct ext4_inode_info *ei = EXT4_I(inode);
55 	journal_t *journal = EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb)->s_journal;
56 	int ret;
57 	tid_t commit_tid;
58 
59 	J_ASSERT(ext4_journal_current_handle() == NULL);
60 
61 	trace_ext4_sync_file(file, dentry, datasync);
62 
63 	if (inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)
64 		return 0;
65 
66 	ret = flush_aio_dio_completed_IO(inode);
67 	if (ret < 0)
68 		return ret;
69 
70 	if (!journal)
71 		return simple_fsync(file, dentry, datasync);
72 
73 	/*
74 	 * data=writeback,ordered:
75 	 *  The caller's filemap_fdatawrite()/wait will sync the data.
76 	 *  Metadata is in the journal, we wait for proper transaction to
77 	 *  commit here.
78 	 *
79 	 * data=journal:
80 	 *  filemap_fdatawrite won't do anything (the buffers are clean).
81 	 *  ext4_force_commit will write the file data into the journal and
82 	 *  will wait on that.
83 	 *  filemap_fdatawait() will encounter a ton of newly-dirtied pages
84 	 *  (they were dirtied by commit).  But that's OK - the blocks are
85 	 *  safe in-journal, which is all fsync() needs to ensure.
86 	 */
87 	if (ext4_should_journal_data(inode))
88 		return ext4_force_commit(inode->i_sb);
89 
90 	commit_tid = datasync ? ei->i_datasync_tid : ei->i_sync_tid;
91 	if (jbd2_log_start_commit(journal, commit_tid)) {
92 		/*
93 		 * When the journal is on a different device than the
94 		 * fs data disk, we need to issue the barrier in
95 		 * writeback mode.  (In ordered mode, the jbd2 layer
96 		 * will take care of issuing the barrier.  In
97 		 * data=journal, all of the data blocks are written to
98 		 * the journal device.)
99 		 */
100 		if (ext4_should_writeback_data(inode) &&
101 		    (journal->j_fs_dev != journal->j_dev) &&
102 		    (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER))
103 			blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, NULL);
104 		jbd2_log_wait_commit(journal, commit_tid);
105 	} else if (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER)
106 		blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, NULL);
107 	return ret;
108 }
109