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Commit c553ea4f authored by Amir Goldstein's avatar Amir Goldstein Committed by Linus Torvalds
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fs/sync.c: sync_file_range(2) may use WB_SYNC_ALL writeback

23d01270 ("fs/sync.c: make sync_file_range(2) use WB_SYNC_NONE
writeback") claims that sync_file_range(2) syscall was "created for
userspace to be able to issue background writeout and so waiting for
in-flight IO is undesirable there" and changes the writeback (back) to
WB_SYNC_NONE.

This claim is only partially true.  It is true for users that use the flag
SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE by itself, as does PostgreSQL, the user that was the
reason for changing to WB_SYNC_NONE writeback.

However, that claim is not true for users that use that flag combination
SYNC_FILE_RANGE_{WAIT_BEFORE|WRITE|_WAIT_AFTER}.  Those users explicitly
requested to wait for in-flight IO as well as to writeback of dirty pages.

Re-brand that flag combination as SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE_AND_WAIT and use
WB_SYNC_ALL writeback to perform the full range sync request.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190409114922.30095-1-amir73il@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190419072938.31320-1-amir73il@gmail.com
Fixes: 23d01270

 ("fs/sync.c: make sync_file_range(2) use WB_SYNC_NONE")
Signed-off-by: default avatarAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 53269057
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