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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-01-08 12:19:57 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-01-08 12:19:57 -0800 |
commit | 972b2c719990f91eb3b2310d44ef8a2d38955a14 (patch) | |
tree | b25a250ec5bec4b7b6355d214642d8b57c5cab32 /fs/buffer.c | |
parent | 02550d61f49266930e674286379d3601006b2893 (diff) | |
parent | c3aa077648e147783a7a53b409578234647db853 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (165 commits)
reiserfs: Properly display mount options in /proc/mounts
vfs: prevent remount read-only if pending removes
vfs: count unlinked inodes
vfs: protect remounting superblock read-only
vfs: keep list of mounts for each superblock
vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry *
vfs: switch ->show_path() to struct dentry *
vfs: switch ->show_devname() to struct dentry *
vfs: switch ->show_stats to struct dentry *
switch security_path_chmod() to struct path *
vfs: prefer ->dentry->d_sb to ->mnt->mnt_sb
vfs: trim includes a bit
switch mnt_namespace ->root to struct mount
vfs: take /proc/*/mounts and friends to fs/proc_namespace.c
vfs: opencode mntget() mnt_set_mountpoint()
vfs: spread struct mount - remaining argument of next_mnt()
vfs: move fsnotify junk to struct mount
vfs: move mnt_devname
vfs: move mnt_list to struct mount
vfs: switch pnode.h macros to struct mount *
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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/buffer.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/buffer.c | 50 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 50 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 19d8eb7..1a30db7 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ #include <linux/bitops.h> #include <linux/mpage.h> #include <linux/bit_spinlock.h> -#include <linux/cleancache.h> static int fsync_buffers_list(spinlock_t *lock, struct list_head *list); @@ -231,55 +230,6 @@ out: return ret; } -/* If invalidate_buffers() will trash dirty buffers, it means some kind - of fs corruption is going on. Trashing dirty data always imply losing - information that was supposed to be just stored on the physical layer - by the user. - - Thus invalidate_buffers in general usage is not allwowed to trash - dirty buffers. For example ioctl(FLSBLKBUF) expects dirty data to - be preserved. These buffers are simply skipped. - - We also skip buffers which are still in use. For example this can - happen if a userspace program is reading the block device. - - NOTE: In the case where the user removed a removable-media-disk even if - there's still dirty data not synced on disk (due a bug in the device driver - or due an error of the user), by not destroying the dirty buffers we could - generate corruption also on the next media inserted, thus a parameter is - necessary to handle this case in the most safe way possible (trying - to not corrupt also the new disk inserted with the data belonging to - the old now corrupted disk). Also for the ramdisk the natural thing - to do in order to release the ramdisk memory is to destroy dirty buffers. - - These are two special cases. Normal usage imply the device driver - to issue a sync on the device (without waiting I/O completion) and - then an invalidate_buffers call that doesn't trash dirty buffers. - - For handling cache coherency with the blkdev pagecache the 'update' case - is been introduced. It is needed to re-read from disk any pinned - buffer. NOTE: re-reading from disk is destructive so we can do it only - when we assume nobody is changing the buffercache under our I/O and when - we think the disk contains more recent information than the buffercache. - The update == 1 pass marks the buffers we need to update, the update == 2 - pass does the actual I/O. */ -void invalidate_bdev(struct block_device *bdev) -{ - struct address_space *mapping = bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping; - - if (mapping->nrpages == 0) - return; - - invalidate_bh_lrus(); - lru_add_drain_all(); /* make sure all lru add caches are flushed */ - invalidate_mapping_pages(mapping, 0, -1); - /* 99% of the time, we don't need to flush the cleancache on the bdev. - * But, for the strange corners, lets be cautious - */ - cleancache_flush_inode(mapping); -} -EXPORT_SYMBOL(invalidate_bdev); - /* * Kick the writeback threads then try to free up some ZONE_NORMAL memory. */ |