This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fs: remove __sync_filesystem to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: fs-remove-__sync_filesystem.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 7370977fefdc738478af84515fdc1dcdc44f201e Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Date: Tue Oct 19 08:25:24 2021 +0200 fs: remove __sync_filesystem [ Upstream commit 9a208ba5c9afa62c7b1e9c6f5e783066e84e2d3c ] There is no clear benefit in having this helper vs just open coding it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211019062530.2174626-2-hch@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c index 1373a610dc78..0d6cdc507cb9 100644 --- a/fs/sync.c +++ b/fs/sync.c @@ -21,25 +21,6 @@ #define VALID_FLAGS (SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE|SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE| \ SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER) -/* - * Do the filesystem syncing work. For simple filesystems - * writeback_inodes_sb(sb) just dirties buffers with inodes so we have to - * submit IO for these buffers via __sync_blockdev(). This also speeds up the - * wait == 1 case since in that case write_inode() functions do - * sync_dirty_buffer() and thus effectively write one block at a time. - */ -static int __sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb, int wait) -{ - if (wait) - sync_inodes_sb(sb); - else - writeback_inodes_sb(sb, WB_REASON_SYNC); - - if (sb->s_op->sync_fs) - sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, wait); - return __sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev, wait); -} - /* * Write out and wait upon all dirty data associated with this * superblock. Filesystem data as well as the underlying block @@ -61,10 +42,25 @@ int sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb) if (sb_rdonly(sb)) return 0; - ret = __sync_filesystem(sb, 0); + /* + * Do the filesystem syncing work. For simple filesystems + * writeback_inodes_sb(sb) just dirties buffers with inodes so we have + * to submit I/O for these buffers via __sync_blockdev(). This also + * speeds up the wait == 1 case since in that case write_inode() + * methods call sync_dirty_buffer() and thus effectively write one block + * at a time. + */ + writeback_inodes_sb(sb, WB_REASON_SYNC); + if (sb->s_op->sync_fs) + sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 0); + ret = __sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev, 0); if (ret < 0) return ret; - return __sync_filesystem(sb, 1); + + sync_inodes_sb(sb); + if (sb->s_op->sync_fs) + sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 1); + return __sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev, 1); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(sync_filesystem);