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fs: pass exact type of data dirties to ->dirty_inode

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Tell the filesystem if we just updated timestamp (I_DIRTY_SYNC) or
anything else, so that the filesystem can track internally if it
needs to push out a transaction for fdatasync or not.

This is just the prototype change with no user for it yet.  I plan
to push large XFS changes for the next merge window, and getting
this trivial infrastructure in this window would help a lot to avoid
tree interdependencies.

Also remove incorrect comments that ->dirty_inode can't block.  That
has been changed a long time ago, and many implementations rely on it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-27 06:53:02 -04:00
committed by Al Viro
parent d6e9bd256c
commit aa38572954
19 changed files with 21 additions and 23 deletions
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@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ of the locking scheme for directory operations.
prototypes:
struct inode *(*alloc_inode)(struct super_block *sb);
void (*destroy_inode)(struct inode *);
void (*dirty_inode) (struct inode *);
void (*dirty_inode) (struct inode *, int flags);
int (*write_inode) (struct inode *, struct writeback_control *wbc);
int (*drop_inode) (struct inode *);
void (*evict_inode) (struct inode *);
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ locking rules:
s_umount
alloc_inode:
destroy_inode:
dirty_inode: (must not sleep)
dirty_inode:
write_inode:
drop_inode: !!!inode->i_lock!!!
evict_inode: