Instead of opencoding the fsync calling sequence use vfs_fsync. This also gets rid of the useless i_mutex over the data writeout. Consolidate the remaining special code for syncing directories and document it's quirks. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6/fs/nfsd/vfs.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/nfsd/vfs.c 2009-12-25 17:31:50.760254239 +0100 +++ linux-2.6/fs/nfsd/vfs.c 2009-12-25 17:39:17.244005992 +0100 @@ -769,40 +769,25 @@ nfsd_close(struct file *filp) } /* - * Sync a file - * As this calls fsync (not fdatasync) there is no need for a write_inode - * after it. + * Sync a directory to disk. + * + * We can't just call vfs_fsync because our requirements are slightly odd: + * + * a) we do not have a file struct available + * b) we expect to have i_mutex already held by the caller */ -static inline int nfsd_dosync(struct file *filp, struct dentry *dp, - const struct file_operations *fop) -{ - struct inode *inode = dp->d_inode; - int (*fsync) (struct file *, struct dentry *, int); - int err; - - err = filemap_write_and_wait(inode->i_mapping); - if (err == 0 && fop && (fsync = fop->fsync)) - err = fsync(filp, dp, 0); - return err; -} - -static int -nfsd_sync(struct file *filp) +int +nfsd_sync_dir(struct dentry *dentry) { - int err; - struct inode *inode = filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode; - dprintk("nfsd: sync file %s\n", filp->f_path.dentry->d_name.name); - mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); - err=nfsd_dosync(filp, filp->f_path.dentry, filp->f_op); - mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); + struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode; + int error; - return err; -} + WARN_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&inode->i_mutex)); -int -nfsd_sync_dir(struct dentry *dp) -{ - return nfsd_dosync(NULL, dp, dp->d_inode->i_fop); + error = filemap_write_and_wait(inode->i_mapping); + if (!error && inode->i_fop->fsync) + error = inode->i_fop->fsync(NULL, dentry, 0); + return error; } /* @@ -1008,7 +993,7 @@ static int wait_for_concurrent_writes(st if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY) { dprintk("nfsd: write sync %d\n", task_pid_nr(current)); - err = nfsd_sync(file); + err = vfs_fsync(file, file->f_path.dentry, 0); } last_ino = inode->i_ino; last_dev = inode->i_sb->s_dev; @@ -1177,7 +1162,7 @@ nfsd_commit(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, stru return err; if (EX_ISSYNC(fhp->fh_export)) { if (file->f_op && file->f_op->fsync) { - err = nfserrno(nfsd_sync(file)); + err = nfserrno(vfs_fsync(file, file->f_path.dentry, 0)); } else { err = nfserr_notsupp; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html