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/xattr.c b/fs/ext2/xattr.c
index 8c29ae1..f84700b 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/xattr.c
@@ -699,7 +699,7 @@
EXT2_I(inode)->i_file_acl = new_bh ? new_bh->b_blocknr : 0;
inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME_SEC;
if (IS_SYNC(inode)) {
- error = ext2_sync_inode (inode);
+ error = sync_inode_metadata(inode, 1);
/* In case sync failed due to ENOSPC the inode was actually
* written (only some dirty data were not) so we just proceed
* as if nothing happened and cleanup the unused block */