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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-05-14 10:10:55 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-05-14 10:10:55 -0700
commit318222a35bfb0ae9b5ff3e359a583463e6cfcd94 (patch)
tree6a8d921f7ac9915f3f12dd3fcd7efaaf6f16bb09 /fs/sync.c
parent7e9890a3500d95c01511a4c45b7e7192dfa47ae2 (diff)
parent640be2d1ffbc1946f1547eb89b5005ed7542de99 (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: - a few misc things and hotfixes - ocfs2 - almost all of MM * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (139 commits) kernel/memremap.c: remove the unused device_private_entry_fault() export mm: delete find_get_entries_tag mm/huge_memory.c: make __thp_get_unmapped_area static mm/mprotect.c: fix compilation warning because of unused 'mm' variable mm/page-writeback: introduce tracepoint for wait_on_page_writeback() mm/vmscan: simplify trace_reclaim_flags and trace_shrink_flags mm/Kconfig: update "Memory Model" help text mm/vmscan.c: don't disable irq again when count pgrefill for memcg mm: memblock: make keeping memblock memory opt-in rather than opt-out hugetlbfs: always use address space in inode for resv_map pointer mm/z3fold.c: support page migration mm/z3fold.c: add structure for buddy handles mm/z3fold.c: improve compression by extending search mm/z3fold.c: introduce helper functions mm/page_alloc.c: remove unnecessary parameter in rmqueue_pcplist mm/hmm: add ARCH_HAS_HMM_MIRROR ARCH_HAS_HMM_DEVICE Kconfig mm/vmscan.c: simplify shrink_inactive_list() fs/sync.c: sync_file_range(2) may use WB_SYNC_ALL writeback xen/privcmd-buf.c: convert to use vm_map_pages_zero() xen/gntdev.c: convert to use vm_map_pages() ...
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sync.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/sync.c21
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c
index 01e82170545a..4d1ff010bc5a 100644
--- a/fs/sync.c
+++ b/fs/sync.c
@@ -292,8 +292,14 @@ int sync_file_range(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t nbytes,
}
if (flags & SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE) {
+ int sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE;
+
+ if ((flags & SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE_AND_WAIT) ==
+ SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE_AND_WAIT)
+ sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL;
+
ret = __filemap_fdatawrite_range(mapping, offset, endbyte,
- WB_SYNC_NONE);
+ sync_mode);
if (ret < 0)
goto out;
}
@@ -306,9 +312,9 @@ out:
}
/*
- * sys_sync_file_range() permits finely controlled syncing over a segment of
+ * ksys_sync_file_range() permits finely controlled syncing over a segment of
* a file in the range offset .. (offset+nbytes-1) inclusive. If nbytes is
- * zero then sys_sync_file_range() will operate from offset out to EOF.
+ * zero then ksys_sync_file_range() will operate from offset out to EOF.
*
* The flag bits are:
*
@@ -325,7 +331,7 @@ out:
* Useful combinations of the flag bits are:
*
* SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE|SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE: ensures that all pages
- * in the range which were dirty on entry to sys_sync_file_range() are placed
+ * in the range which were dirty on entry to ksys_sync_file_range() are placed
* under writeout. This is a start-write-for-data-integrity operation.
*
* SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE: start writeout of all dirty pages in the range which
@@ -337,10 +343,13 @@ out:
* earlier SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE|SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE operation to wait
* for that operation to complete and to return the result.
*
- * SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE|SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE|SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER:
+ * SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE|SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE|SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER
+ * (a.k.a. SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE_AND_WAIT):
* a traditional sync() operation. This is a write-for-data-integrity operation
* which will ensure that all pages in the range which were dirty on entry to
- * sys_sync_file_range() are committed to disk.
+ * ksys_sync_file_range() are written to disk. It should be noted that disk
+ * caches are not flushed by this call, so there are no guarantees here that the
+ * data will be available on disk after a crash.
*
*
* SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE and SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER will detect any