On Fri 21-06-19 16:57:07, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > +/* > + * Flush file data before changing attributes. Caller must hold any locks > + * required to prevent further writes to this file until we're done setting > + * flags. > + */ > +static inline int inode_flush_data(struct inode *inode) > +{ > + inode_dio_wait(inode); > + return filemap_write_and_wait(inode->i_mapping); > +} BTW, how about calling this function inode_drain_writes() instead? The 'flush_data' part is more a detail of implementation of write draining than what we need to do to set immutable flag. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR