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authorFabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>2014-06-04 16:06:27 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-04 16:53:55 -0700
commitac13a829f6adb674015ab399594c089990104af7 (patch)
tree29f0b78758080bac01307e705371283a406b41c4 /include/linux/fs.h
parentfd2916bd77109b69891573fd1e1205ecc619893e (diff)
fs/libfs.c: add generic data flush to fsync
Description by Jan Kara: "A lot of older filesystems don't properly flush volatile disk caches on fsync(2) which can lead to loss of fsynced data after power failure. This patch makes generic_file_fsync() issue proper cache flush to fix the problem. Sysadmin can use /sys/devices/.../cache_type to tell the system it should not send the cache flush." [akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuke ifdef] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning] Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 878031227c57..c3f46e499dd0 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2590,6 +2590,7 @@ extern ssize_t simple_read_from_buffer(void __user *to, size_t count,
extern ssize_t simple_write_to_buffer(void *to, size_t available, loff_t *ppos,
const void __user *from, size_t count);
+extern int __generic_file_fsync(struct file *, loff_t, loff_t, int);
extern int generic_file_fsync(struct file *, loff_t, loff_t, int);
extern int generic_check_addressable(unsigned, u64);