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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sync.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/sync.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c index ba76b9623e7e..92ca208777d5 100644 --- a/fs/sync.c +++ b/fs/sync.c @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ #include <linux/fs.h> #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/module.h> +#include <linux/namei.h> #include <linux/sched.h> #include <linux/writeback.h> #include <linux/syscalls.h> @@ -128,6 +129,29 @@ void emergency_sync(void) } } +/* + * sync a single super + */ +SYSCALL_DEFINE1(syncfs, int, fd) +{ + struct file *file; + struct super_block *sb; + int ret; + int fput_needed; + + file = fget_light(fd, &fput_needed); + if (!file) + return -EBADF; + sb = file->f_dentry->d_sb; + + down_read(&sb->s_umount); + ret = sync_filesystem(sb); + up_read(&sb->s_umount); + + fput_light(file, fput_needed); + return ret; +} + /** * vfs_fsync_range - helper to sync a range of data & metadata to disk * @file: file to sync |