Looks good except for some minor comments below: Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c > index 3367d04..5fbeee6 100644 > --- a/fs/sync.c > +++ b/fs/sync.c > @@ -68,18 +68,26 @@ int sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb) > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sync_filesystem); > > -static void sync_one_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *arg) > +static void sync_inodes_one_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *arg) > { > - if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) > - __sync_filesystem(sb, *(int *)arg); > + if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) { > + if (!*(int *)arg) > + writeback_inodes_sb(sb); > + else > + sync_inodes_sb(sb); > + } This would be a lot cleaner if you split it into two functions for the writeback_inodes_sb and sync_inodes_sb cases. > } > -/* > - * Sync all the data for all the filesystems (called by sys_sync() and > - * emergency sync) > - */ > -static void sync_filesystems(int wait) > + > +static void sync_fs_one_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *arg) > { > - iterate_supers(sync_one_sb, &wait); > + if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) && sb->s_op->sync_fs) > + sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, *(int *)arg); > +} > + > +static void sync_blkdev_one_sb(struct super_block *sb, void *arg) > +{ > + if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) > + __sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev, *(int *)arg); > } Same here, not having these odd wait/nowait arguments whos address is taken in the caller would make the thing a lot more readable. It would also allow to kill of that nasty __sync_blockdev interface eventually. -- 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