Commit 1b061d92 authored by Christoph Hellwig's avatar Christoph Hellwig Committed by Al Viro
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rename the generic fsync implementations



We don't name our generic fsync implementations very well currently.
The no-op implementation for in-memory filesystems currently is called
simple_sync_file which doesn't make too much sense to start with,
the the generic one for simple filesystems is called simple_fsync
which can lead to some confusion.

This patch renames the generic file fsync method to generic_file_fsync
to match the other generic_file_* routines it is supposed to be used
with, and the no-op implementation to noop_fsync to make it obvious
what to expect.  In addition add some documentation for both methods.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
parent 7ea80859
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@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ const struct file_operations spufs_context_fops = {
	.llseek		= dcache_dir_lseek,
	.read		= generic_read_dir,
	.readdir	= dcache_readdir,
	.fsync		= simple_sync_file,
	.fsync		= noop_fsync,
};
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(spufs_context_fops);

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@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ const struct file_operations adfs_dir_operations = {
	.read		= generic_read_dir,
	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
	.readdir	= adfs_readdir,
	.fsync		= simple_fsync,
	.fsync		= generic_file_fsync,
};

static int
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@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ const struct file_operations adfs_file_operations = {
	.read		= do_sync_read,
	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
	.mmap		= generic_file_mmap,
	.fsync		= simple_fsync,
	.fsync		= generic_file_fsync,
	.write		= do_sync_write,
	.aio_write	= generic_file_aio_write,
	.splice_read	= generic_file_splice_read,
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@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ static int bfs_readdir(struct file *f, void *dirent, filldir_t filldir)
const struct file_operations bfs_dir_operations = {
	.read		= generic_read_dir,
	.readdir	= bfs_readdir,
	.fsync		= simple_fsync,
	.fsync		= generic_file_fsync,
	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
};

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@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ int ext2_fsync(struct file *file, int datasync)
	struct super_block *sb = file->f_mapping->host->i_sb;
	struct address_space *mapping = sb->s_bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping;

	ret = simple_fsync(file, datasync);
	ret = generic_file_fsync(file, datasync);
	if (ret == -EIO || test_and_clear_bit(AS_EIO, &mapping->flags)) {
		/* We don't really know where the IO error happened... */
		ext2_error(sb, __func__,
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