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authorChris Mason <mason@suse.com>2006-09-29 02:00:03 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-09-29 09:18:12 -0700
commitae78bf9c4f5fde3c67e2829505f195d7347ce3e4 (patch)
treeb9376237e596ed7e95db35b9ccf1ad3177b10460 /fs/fat
parent6b77df08a36d989f7dd00ccb6a026a0e96170d16 (diff)
[PATCH] add -o flush for fat
Fat is commonly used on removable media. Mounting with -o flush tells the FS to write things to disk as quickly as possible. It is like -o sync, but much faster (and not as safe). Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fat')
-rw-r--r--fs/fat/file.c13
-rw-r--r--fs/fat/inode.c59
2 files changed, 70 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fat/file.c b/fs/fat/file.c
index 1ee25232e6af..d50fc47169c1 100644
--- a/fs/fat/file.c
+++ b/fs/fat/file.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <linux/buffer_head.h>
#include <linux/writeback.h>
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
int fat_generic_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp,
unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
@@ -112,6 +113,16 @@ int fat_generic_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp,
}
}
+static int fat_file_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
+{
+ if ((filp->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) &&
+ MSDOS_SB(inode->i_sb)->options.flush) {
+ fat_flush_inodes(inode->i_sb, inode, NULL);
+ blk_congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
const struct file_operations fat_file_operations = {
.llseek = generic_file_llseek,
.read = do_sync_read,
@@ -121,6 +132,7 @@ const struct file_operations fat_file_operations = {
.aio_read = generic_file_aio_read,
.aio_write = generic_file_aio_write,
.mmap = generic_file_mmap,
+ .release = fat_file_release,
.ioctl = fat_generic_ioctl,
.fsync = file_fsync,
.sendfile = generic_file_sendfile,
@@ -289,6 +301,7 @@ void fat_truncate(struct inode *inode)
lock_kernel();
fat_free(inode, nr_clusters);
unlock_kernel();
+ fat_flush_inodes(inode->i_sb, inode, NULL);
}
struct inode_operations fat_file_inode_operations = {
diff --git a/fs/fat/inode.c b/fs/fat/inode.c
index ab96ae823753..045738032a83 100644
--- a/fs/fat/inode.c
+++ b/fs/fat/inode.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
#include <linux/vfs.h>
#include <linux/parser.h>
#include <linux/uio.h>
+#include <linux/writeback.h>
#include <asm/unaligned.h>
#ifndef CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET
@@ -853,7 +854,7 @@ enum {
Opt_charset, Opt_shortname_lower, Opt_shortname_win95,
Opt_shortname_winnt, Opt_shortname_mixed, Opt_utf8_no, Opt_utf8_yes,
Opt_uni_xl_no, Opt_uni_xl_yes, Opt_nonumtail_no, Opt_nonumtail_yes,
- Opt_obsolate, Opt_err,
+ Opt_obsolate, Opt_flush, Opt_err,
};
static match_table_t fat_tokens = {
@@ -885,7 +886,8 @@ static match_table_t fat_tokens = {
{Opt_obsolate, "cvf_format=%20s"},
{Opt_obsolate, "cvf_options=%100s"},
{Opt_obsolate, "posix"},
- {Opt_err, NULL}
+ {Opt_flush, "flush"},
+ {Opt_err, NULL},
};
static match_table_t msdos_tokens = {
{Opt_nodots, "nodots"},
@@ -1026,6 +1028,9 @@ static int parse_options(char *options, int is_vfat, int silent, int *debug,
return 0;
opts->codepage = option;
break;
+ case Opt_flush:
+ opts->flush = 1;
+ break;
/* msdos specific */
case Opt_dots:
@@ -1425,6 +1430,56 @@ out_fail:
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fat_fill_super);
+/*
+ * helper function for fat_flush_inodes. This writes both the inode
+ * and the file data blocks, waiting for in flight data blocks before
+ * the start of the call. It does not wait for any io started
+ * during the call
+ */
+static int writeback_inode(struct inode *inode)
+{
+
+ int ret;
+ struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
+ struct writeback_control wbc = {
+ .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
+ .nr_to_write = 0,
+ };
+ /* if we used WB_SYNC_ALL, sync_inode waits for the io for the
+ * inode to finish. So WB_SYNC_NONE is sent down to sync_inode
+ * and filemap_fdatawrite is used for the data blocks
+ */
+ ret = sync_inode(inode, &wbc);
+ if (!ret)
+ ret = filemap_fdatawrite(mapping);
+ return ret;
+}
+
+/*
+ * write data and metadata corresponding to i1 and i2. The io is
+ * started but we do not wait for any of it to finish.
+ *
+ * filemap_flush is used for the block device, so if there is a dirty
+ * page for a block already in flight, we will not wait and start the
+ * io over again
+ */
+int fat_flush_inodes(struct super_block *sb, struct inode *i1, struct inode *i2)
+{
+ int ret = 0;
+ if (!MSDOS_SB(sb)->options.flush)
+ return 0;
+ if (i1)
+ ret = writeback_inode(i1);
+ if (!ret && i2)
+ ret = writeback_inode(i2);
+ if (!ret && sb) {
+ struct address_space *mapping = sb->s_bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping;
+ ret = filemap_flush(mapping);
+ }
+ return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(fat_flush_inodes);
+
static int __init init_fat_fs(void)
{
int err;