From: Chengguang Xu <charliecgxu@xxxxxxxxxxx> Now overlayfs can only sync own dirty inodes during syncfs, so remove unnecessary sync_filesystem() on upper file system. Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <charliecgxu@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 14 +++++--------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c index ccffcd96491d..213b795a6a86 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -292,18 +292,14 @@ 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 - * called with wait == 1. */ - if (!wait) - return 0; - upper_sb = ovl_upper_mnt(ofs)->mnt_sb; - down_read(&upper_sb->s_umount); - ret = sync_filesystem(upper_sb); + if (wait) + wait_sb_inodes(upper_sb); + if (upper_sb->s_op->sync_fs) + upper_sb->s_op->sync_fs(upper_sb, wait); + ret = ovl_sync_upper_blockdev(upper_sb, wait); up_read(&upper_sb->s_umount); return ret; -- 2.27.0