1 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
3 * linux/fs/ext4/fsync.c
5 * Copyright (C) 1993 Stephen Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
7 * Copyright (C) 1992 Remy Card (card@masi.ibp.fr)
8 * Laboratoire MASI - Institut Blaise Pascal
9 * Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
11 * linux/fs/minix/truncate.c Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Linus Torvalds
13 * ext4fs fsync primitive
15 * Big-endian to little-endian byte-swapping/bitmaps by
16 * David S. Miller (davem@caip.rutgers.edu), 1995
18 * Removed unnecessary code duplication for little endian machines
19 * and excessive __inline__s.
22 * Major simplications and cleanup - we only need to do the metadata, because
23 * we can depend on generic_block_fdatasync() to sync the data blocks.
26 #include <linux/time.h>
28 #include <linux/sched.h>
29 #include <linux/writeback.h>
30 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
31 #include <linux/buffer_head.h>
34 #include "ext4_jbd2.h"
36 #include <trace/events/ext4.h>
39 * If we're not journaling and this is a just-created file, we have to
40 * sync our parent directory (if it was freshly created) since
41 * otherwise it will only be written by writeback, leaving a huge
42 * window during which a crash may lose the file. This may apply for
43 * the parent directory's parent as well, and so on recursively, if
44 * they are also freshly created.
46 static int ext4_sync_parent(struct inode
*inode
)
48 struct dentry
*dentry
, *next
;
51 if (!ext4_test_inode_state(inode
, EXT4_STATE_NEWENTRY
))
53 dentry
= d_find_any_alias(inode
);
56 while (ext4_test_inode_state(inode
, EXT4_STATE_NEWENTRY
)) {
57 ext4_clear_inode_state(inode
, EXT4_STATE_NEWENTRY
);
59 next
= dget_parent(dentry
);
62 inode
= dentry
->d_inode
;
65 * The directory inode may have gone through rmdir by now. But
66 * the inode itself and its blocks are still allocated (we hold
67 * a reference to the inode via its dentry), so it didn't go
68 * through ext4_evict_inode()) and so we are safe to flush
69 * metadata blocks and the inode.
71 ret
= sync_mapping_buffers(inode
->i_mapping
);
74 ret
= sync_inode_metadata(inode
, 1);
82 static int ext4_fsync_nojournal(struct file
*file
, loff_t start
, loff_t end
,
83 int datasync
, bool *needs_barrier
)
85 struct inode
*inode
= file
->f_inode
;
88 ret
= generic_buffers_fsync_noflush(file
, start
, end
, datasync
);
90 ret
= ext4_sync_parent(inode
);
91 if (test_opt(inode
->i_sb
, BARRIER
))
92 *needs_barrier
= true;
97 static int ext4_fsync_journal(struct inode
*inode
, bool datasync
,
100 struct ext4_inode_info
*ei
= EXT4_I(inode
);
101 journal_t
*journal
= EXT4_SB(inode
->i_sb
)->s_journal
;
102 tid_t commit_tid
= datasync
? ei
->i_datasync_tid
: ei
->i_sync_tid
;
105 * Fastcommit does not really support fsync on directories or other
106 * special files. Force a full commit.
108 if (!S_ISREG(inode
->i_mode
))
109 return ext4_force_commit(inode
->i_sb
);
111 if (journal
->j_flags
& JBD2_BARRIER
&&
112 !jbd2_trans_will_send_data_barrier(journal
, commit_tid
))
113 *needs_barrier
= true;
115 return ext4_fc_commit(journal
, commit_tid
);
119 * akpm: A new design for ext4_sync_file().
121 * This is only called from sys_fsync(), sys_fdatasync() and sys_msync().
122 * There cannot be a transaction open by this task.
123 * Another task could have dirtied this inode. Its data can be in any
124 * state in the journalling system.
126 * What we do is just kick off a commit and wait on it. This will snapshot the
129 int ext4_sync_file(struct file
*file
, loff_t start
, loff_t end
, int datasync
)
132 bool needs_barrier
= false;
133 struct inode
*inode
= file
->f_mapping
->host
;
135 if (unlikely(ext4_forced_shutdown(inode
->i_sb
)))
138 ASSERT(ext4_journal_current_handle() == NULL
);
140 trace_ext4_sync_file_enter(file
, datasync
);
142 if (sb_rdonly(inode
->i_sb
)) {
143 /* Make sure that we read updated s_ext4_flags value */
145 if (ext4_forced_shutdown(inode
->i_sb
))
150 if (!EXT4_SB(inode
->i_sb
)->s_journal
) {
151 ret
= ext4_fsync_nojournal(file
, start
, end
, datasync
,
158 ret
= file_write_and_wait_range(file
, start
, end
);
163 * The caller's filemap_fdatawrite()/wait will sync the data.
164 * Metadata is in the journal, we wait for proper transaction to
167 ret
= ext4_fsync_journal(inode
, datasync
, &needs_barrier
);
171 err
= blkdev_issue_flush(inode
->i_sb
->s_bdev
);
176 err
= file_check_and_advance_wb_err(file
);
179 trace_ext4_sync_file_exit(inode
, ret
);