linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/5] block: Add block_flush

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Message-ID: <49D0220B.3000205@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Date:	Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:36:11 +0900
From:	Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao 
	<fernando@....ntt.co.jp>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, David Rees <drees76@...il.com>,
	Jesper Krogh <jesper@...gh.cc>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] block: Add block_flush_device()

This patch adds a helper function that should be used by filesystems that need
to flush the underlying block device on fsync()/fdatasync().

Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@....ntt.co.jp>
---

diff -urNp linux-2.6.29-orig/fs/buffer.c linux-2.6.29/fs/buffer.c
--- linux-2.6.29-orig/fs/buffer.c	2009-03-24 08:12:14.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6.29/fs/buffer.c	2009-03-28 20:43:51.000000000 +0900
@@ -165,6 +165,17 @@ void end_buffer_write_sync(struct buffer
  	put_bh(bh);
  }

+/* Issue flush of write caches on the block device */
+int block_flush_device(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	ret = blkdev_issue_flush(sb->s_bdev, NULL);
+
+	return (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP) ? 0 : ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(block_flush_device);
+
  /*
   * Write out and wait upon all the dirty data associated with a block
   * device via its mapping.  Does not take the superblock lock.
diff -urNp linux-2.6.29-orig/include/linux/buffer_head.h linux-2.6.29/include/linux/buffer_head.h
--- linux-2.6.29-orig/include/linux/buffer_head.h	2009-03-24 08:12:14.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6.29/include/linux/buffer_head.h	2009-03-28 20:43:51.000000000 +0900
@@ -238,6 +238,7 @@ int nobh_write_end(struct file *, struct
  int nobh_truncate_page(struct address_space *, loff_t, get_block_t *);
  int nobh_writepage(struct page *page, get_block_t *get_block,
                          struct writeback_control *wbc);
+int block_flush_device(struct super_block *sb);

  void buffer_init(void);

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