linux-kernel - [PATCH tty-next 5/6] devpts: Remove sync

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Date:   Wed, 14 Sep 2016 13:53:37 -0500
From:   "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>
Cc:     "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: [PATCH tty-next 5/6] devpts: Remove sync_filesystems

devpts does not and never will have anything to sync
so don't bother calling sync_filesystems on remount.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
---
 fs/devpts/inode.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/devpts/inode.c b/fs/devpts/inode.c
index e058ec677207..17593d3fcdbe 100644
--- a/fs/devpts/inode.c
+++ b/fs/devpts/inode.c
@@ -336,7 +336,6 @@ static int devpts_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data)
 	struct pts_fs_info *fsi = DEVPTS_SB(sb);
 	struct pts_mount_opts *opts = &fsi->mount_opts;
 
-	sync_filesystem(sb);
 	err = parse_mount_options(data, PARSE_REMOUNT, opts);
 
 	/*
-- 
2.8.3