Hi Linus, On top of the core block branch, this topic branch contains improvments to how bdev inode syncing is handled. Please pull! The following changes since commit 8e9f666a6e66d3f882c094646d35536d2759103a: blk-crypto: update inline encryption documentation (2021-10-21 10:49:32 -0600) are available in the Git repository at: git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block.git tags/for-5.16/inode-sync-2021-10-29 for you to fetch changes up to 1e03a36bdff4709c1bbf0f57f60ae3f776d51adf: block: simplify the block device syncing code (2021-10-22 08:36:55 -0600) ---------------------------------------------------------------- for-5.16/inode-sync-2021-10-29 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Christoph Hellwig (7): fs: remove __sync_filesystem block: remove __sync_blockdev xen-blkback: use sync_blockdev btrfs: use sync_blockdev fat: use sync_blockdev_nowait ntfs3: use sync_blockdev_nowait block: simplify the block device syncing code block/bdev.c | 28 ++++++++++++----- drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 2 +- fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 2 +- fs/fat/inode.c | 6 ++-- fs/internal.h | 11 ------- fs/ntfs3/inode.c | 2 +- fs/sync.c | 62 ++++++++++++++------------------------ include/linux/blkdev.h | 9 ++++++ 8 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-) -- Jens Axboe