On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 02:25:11PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > I don't like that you need to add a 'flush' handler to every filesystem, > most of which just call > + return filemap_report_wb_error(file); > > Could we just have > if (filp->f_op->flush) > retval = filp->f_op->flush(filp, id); > + else > + retval = filemap_report_wb_error(filp); > in flip_close() ?? Maybe this is badly named as ext4_flush_file(). Maybe this should be generic_flush_file(), and then there's no per-filesystem overhead to this?