fs: add sync_inode_metadata
Add a new helper to write out the inode using the writeback code,
that is including the correct dirty bit and list manipulation. A few
of filesystems already opencode this, and a lot of others should be
using it instead of using write_inode_now which also writes out the
data.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/ext2/inode.c b/fs/ext2/inode.c
index 533699c..40ad210 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/inode.c
@@ -1203,7 +1203,7 @@
inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME_SEC;
if (inode_needs_sync(inode)) {
sync_mapping_buffers(inode->i_mapping);
- ext2_sync_inode (inode);
+ sync_inode_metadata(inode, 1);
} else {
mark_inode_dirty(inode);
}
@@ -1523,15 +1523,6 @@
return __ext2_write_inode(inode, wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL);
}
-int ext2_sync_inode(struct inode *inode)
-{
- struct writeback_control wbc = {
- .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
- .nr_to_write = 0, /* sys_fsync did this */
- };
- return sync_inode(inode, &wbc);
-}
-
int ext2_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *iattr)
{
struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;