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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-05-12 00:05:35 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-05-12 00:05:35 -0700 |
| commit | 278554bd6579206921f5d8a523649a7a57f8850d (patch) | |
| tree | 4e6c527daf0910e455b3aa72e2c96b0479e430be /fs/block_dev.c | |
| parent | 5a147e8bf982f9dd414c1dd751fe02c1942506b2 (diff) | |
| parent | cea0d767c29669bf89f86e4aee46ef462d2ebae8 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/usb.c
drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c
net/ipv4/ipmr.c
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/block_dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/block_dev.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c index 2a6d019..6dcee88 100644 --- a/fs/block_dev.c +++ b/fs/block_dev.c @@ -406,16 +406,23 @@ static loff_t block_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin) int blkdev_fsync(struct file *filp, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync) { - struct block_device *bdev = I_BDEV(filp->f_mapping->host); + struct inode *bd_inode = filp->f_mapping->host; + struct block_device *bdev = I_BDEV(bd_inode); int error; - error = sync_blockdev(bdev); - if (error) - return error; - + /* + * There is no need to serialise calls to blkdev_issue_flush with + * i_mutex and doing so causes performance issues with concurrent + * O_SYNC writers to a block device. + */ + mutex_unlock(&bd_inode->i_mutex); + error = blkdev_issue_flush(bdev, NULL); if (error == -EOPNOTSUPP) error = 0; + + mutex_lock(&bd_inode->i_mutex); + return error; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(blkdev_fsync); |
