Implement overlayfs' ->writepages operation so that we can sync dirty data/metadata to upper filesystem. Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c index 832b17589733..d854e59a3710 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c @@ -659,9 +659,22 @@ static const struct inode_operations ovl_special_inode_operations = { .update_time = ovl_update_time, }; +static int ovl_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, + struct writeback_control *wbc) +{ + struct inode *inode = mapping->host; + struct ovl_fs *ofs = inode->i_sb->s_fs_info; + struct inode *upper = ovl_inode_upper(inode); + + if (!ovl_should_sync(ofs)) + return 0; + return filemap_fdatawrite_wbc(upper->i_mapping, wbc); +} + static const struct address_space_operations ovl_aops = { /* For O_DIRECT dentry_open() checks f_mapping->a_ops->direct_IO */ .direct_IO = noop_direct_IO, + .writepages = ovl_writepages, }; /* -- 2.27.0