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SubjectRe: [PATCH] blkdev: flush disk cache on ->fsync
Is anyone going to pick up this patch?

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 08:24:32PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Currently there is no barrier support in the block device code. That
> means we cannot guarantee any sort of data integerity when using the
> block device node with dis kwrite caches enabled. Using the raw block
> device node is a typical use case for virtualization (and I assume
> databases, too). This patch changes block_fsync to issue a cache flush
> and thus make fsync on block device nodes actually useful.
>
> Note that in mainline we would also need to add such code to the
> ->aio_write method for O_SYNC handling, but assuming that Jan's patch
> series for the O_SYNC rewrite goes in it will also call into ->fsync
> for 2.6.32.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>
>
> diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
> index 94dfda2..298ad75 100644
> --- a/fs/block_dev.c
> +++ b/fs/block_dev.c
> @@ -398,7 +398,17 @@ static loff_t block_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
>
> static int block_fsync(struct file *filp, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
> {
> - return sync_blockdev(I_BDEV(filp->f_mapping->host));
> + struct block_device *bdev = I_BDEV(filp->f_mapping->host);
> + int error;
> +
> + error = sync_blockdev(bdev);
> + if (error)
> + return error;
> +
> + error = blkdev_issue_flush(bdev, NULL);
> + if (error == -EOPNOTSUPP)
> + error = 0;
> + return error;
> }
>
> /*
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