linux/fs/ext4/fsync.c

// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
/*
 *  linux/fs/ext4/fsync.c
 *
 *  Copyright (C) 1993  Stephen Tweedie ([email protected])
 *  from
 *  Copyright (C) 1992  Remy Card ([email protected])
 *                      Laboratoire MASI - Institut Blaise Pascal
 *                      Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
 *  from
 *  linux/fs/minix/truncate.c   Copyright (C) 1991, 1992  Linus Torvalds
 *
 *  ext4fs fsync primitive
 *
 *  Big-endian to little-endian byte-swapping/bitmaps by
 *        David S. Miller ([email protected]), 1995
 *
 *  Removed unnecessary code duplication for little endian machines
 *  and excessive __inline__s.
 *        Andi Kleen, 1997
 *
 * Major simplications and cleanup - we only need to do the metadata, because
 * we can depend on generic_block_fdatasync() to sync the data blocks.
 */

#include <linux/time.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/writeback.h>
#include <linux/blkdev.h>
#include <linux/buffer_head.h>

#include "ext4.h"
#include "ext4_jbd2.h"

#include <trace/events/ext4.h>

/*
 * If we're not journaling and this is a just-created file, we have to
 * sync our parent directory (if it was freshly created) since
 * otherwise it will only be written by writeback, leaving a huge
 * window during which a crash may lose the file.  This may apply for
 * the parent directory's parent as well, and so on recursively, if
 * they are also freshly created.
 */
static int ext4_sync_parent(struct inode *inode)
{ … }

static int ext4_fsync_nojournal(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end,
				int datasync, bool *needs_barrier)
{ … }

static int ext4_fsync_journal(struct inode *inode, bool datasync,
			     bool *needs_barrier)
{ … }

/*
 * akpm: A new design for ext4_sync_file().
 *
 * This is only called from sys_fsync(), sys_fdatasync() and sys_msync().
 * There cannot be a transaction open by this task.
 * Another task could have dirtied this inode.  Its data can be in any
 * state in the journalling system.
 *
 * What we do is just kick off a commit and wait on it.  This will snapshot the
 * inode to disk.
 */
int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
{ … }