From e2c7617ae36b27f97643bfa08aabe27e630c1a76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Rohner Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 15:53:20 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] nilfs2: add missing blkdev_issue_flush() to nilfs_sync_fs() Under normal circumstances nilfs_sync_fs() writes out the super block, which causes a flush of the underlying block device. But this depends on the THE_NILFS_SB_DIRTY flag, which is only set if the pointer to the last segment crosses a segment boundary. So if only a small amount of data is written before the call to nilfs_sync_fs(), no flush of the block device occurs. In the above case an additional call to blkdev_issue_flush() is needed. To prevent unnecessary overhead, the new flag nilfs->ns_flushed_device is introduced, which is cleared whenever new logs are written and set whenever the block device is flushed. For convenience the function nilfs_flush_device() is added, which contains the above logic. Signed-off-by: Andreas Rohner Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed