Now overlayfs can only sync dirty inode during syncfs, so remove unnecessary sync_filesystem() on upper file system. Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c index 982b3954b47c..58507f1cd583 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ #include <linux/seq_file.h> #include <linux/posix_acl_xattr.h> #include <linux/exportfs.h> +#include <linux/blkdev.h> +#include <linux/writeback.h> #include "overlayfs.h" MODULE_AUTHOR("Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>"); @@ -270,8 +272,7 @@ static int ovl_sync_fs(struct super_block *sb, int wait) * Not called for sync(2) call or an emergency sync (SB_I_SKIP_SYNC). * All the super blocks will be iterated, including upper_sb. * - * If this is a syncfs(2) call, then we do need to call - * sync_filesystem() on upper_sb, but enough if we do it when being + * if this is a syncfs(2) call, it will be enough we do it when being * called with wait == 1. */ if (!wait) @@ -280,7 +281,11 @@ static int ovl_sync_fs(struct super_block *sb, int wait) upper_sb = ovl_upper_mnt(ofs)->mnt_sb; down_read(&upper_sb->s_umount); - ret = sync_filesystem(upper_sb); + wait_sb_inodes(upper_sb); + if (upper_sb->s_op->sync_fs) + ret = upper_sb->s_op->sync_fs(upper_sb, wait); + if (!ret) + ret = sync_blockdev(upper_sb->s_bdev); up_read(&upper_sb->s_umount); return ret; -- 2.26.2