> +int generic_write_sync(struct file *file, loff_t pos, loff_t count) > +{ > + if (!(file->f_flags & O_SYNC) && !IS_SYNC(file->f_mapping->host)) > + return 0; > + return generic_sync_file(file, file->f_path.dentry, pos, > + pos + count - 1, > + SYNC_SUBMIT_DATA | SYNC_WAIT_DATA); > +} > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_write_sync); > > +/* Flags for generic_sync_file */ > +#define SYNC_INODE 1 > +#define SYNC_SUBMIT_DATA 2 > +#define SYNC_WAIT_DATA 4 When I think about this more I really hate the latter two flags. There's really no reason to just do only either the submit or wait. I'd say kill the flags for now and just implement generic_write_sync as: int generic_write_sync(struct file *file, loff_t pos, loff_t count) { if (!(file->f_flags & O_SYNC) && !IS_SYNC(file->f_mapping->host)) return 0; return vfs_fsync_range(file, file->f_path.dentry, pos, pos + count - 1, 1); } and we can look into replacing the datasync flag with something more meaningfull later through the whole fsync stack. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html