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Commit 5cee5815 authored by Jan Kara's avatar Jan Kara Committed by Al Viro
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vfs: Make sys_sync() use fsync_super() (version 4)



It is unnecessarily fragile to have two places (fsync_super() and do_sync())
doing data integrity sync of the filesystem. Alter __fsync_super() to
accommodate needs of both callers and use it. So after this patch
__fsync_super() is the only place where we gather all the calls needed to
properly send all data on a filesystem to disk.

Nice bonus is that we get a complete livelock avoidance and write_supers()
is now only used for periodic writeback of superblocks.

sync_blockdevs() introduced a couple of patches ago is gone now.

[build fixes folded]

Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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