Syncing is now properly done by generic_file_aio_write() so no special logic is
needed in ext3.
CC: linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext3/file.c | 61 +-------------------------------------------------------
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext3/file.c b/fs/ext3/file.c
index 5b49704..51fee5f 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/file.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/file.c
@@ -51,71 +51,12 @@ static int ext3_release_file (struct inode * inode, struct file * filp)
return 0;
}
-static ssize_t
-ext3_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
- unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
-{
- struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
- struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
- ssize_t ret;
- int err;
-
- ret = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
-
- /*
- * Skip flushing if there was an error, or if nothing was written.
- */
- if (ret <= 0)
- return ret;
-
- /*
- * If the inode is IS_SYNC, or is O_SYNC and we are doing data
- * journalling then we need to make sure that we force the transaction
- * to disk to keep all metadata uptodate synchronously.
- */
- if (file->f_flags & O_SYNC) {
- /*
- * If we are non-data-journaled, then the dirty data has
- * already been flushed to backing store by generic_osync_inode,
- * and the inode has been flushed too if there have been any
- * modifications other than mere timestamp updates.
- *
- * Open question --- do we care about flushing timestamps too
- * if the inode is IS_SYNC?
- */
- if (!ext3_should_journal_data(inode))
- return ret;
-
- goto force_commit;
- }
-
- /*
- * So we know that there has been no forced data flush. If the inode
- * is marked IS_SYNC, we need to force one ourselves.
- */
- if (!IS_SYNC(inode))
- return ret;
-
- /*
- * Open question #2 --- should we force data to disk here too? If we
- * don't, the only impact is that data=writeback filesystems won't
- * flush data to disk automatically on IS_SYNC, only metadata (but
- * historically, that is what ext2 has done.)
- */
-
-force_commit:
- err = ext3_force_commit(inode->i_sb);
- if (err)
- return err;
- return ret;
-}
-
const struct file_operations ext3_file_operations = {
.llseek = generic_file_llseek,
.read = do_sync_read,
.write = do_sync_write,
.aio_read = generic_file_aio_read,
- .aio_write = ext3_file_write,
+ .aio_write = generic_file_aio_write,
.unlocked_ioctl = ext3_ioctl,
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
.compat_ioctl = ext3_compat_ioctl,
--
1.6.0.2
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