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Commit e2c7617a authored by Andreas Rohner's avatar Andreas Rohner Committed by Linus Torvalds
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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: default avatarAndreas Rohner <andreas.rohner@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRyusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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