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| author | Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> | 2009-01-06 14:40:26 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2009-01-24 16:41:52 -0800 |
| commit | d2845ee1312cf822ab0d04b91e80a3cfb1d9166f (patch) | |
| tree | a7d6eab81bab1c73b2836c7dab9804c428922f25 /include | |
| parent | e782d5e42a1ada8df4aa0665d9f21f1ddbc24320 (diff) | |
fs: sys_sync fix
commit 856bf4d717feb8c55d4e2f817b71ebb70cfbc67b upstream.
s_syncing livelock avoidance was breaking data integrity guarantee of
sys_sync, by allowing sys_sync to skip writing or waiting for superblocks
if there is a concurrent sys_sync happening.
This livelock avoidance is much less important now that we don't have the
get_super_to_sync() call after every sb that we sync. This was replaced
by __put_super_and_need_restart.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index efeff3dd95cf..4b9192497b92 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -1124,7 +1124,6 @@ struct super_block { struct rw_semaphore s_umount; struct mutex s_lock; int s_count; - int s_syncing; int s_need_sync_fs; atomic_t s_active; #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY |