Patch "fs: remove __sync_filesystem" has been added to the 5.15-stable tree

[Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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);