commit_metadata export operation replacing nfsd_sync_dir

- Add commit_metadata export_operation to allow the underlying filesystem to
decide how to commit an inode most efficiently.

- Usage of nfsd_sync_dir and write_inode_now has been replaced with the
commit_metadata function that takes a svc_fh.

- The commit_metadata function calls the commit_metadata export_op if it's
there, or else falls back to sync_inode instead of fsync and write_inode_now
because only metadata need be synced here.

- nfsd4_sync_rec_dir now uses vfs_fsync so that commit_metadata can be static

Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/exportfs.h b/include/linux/exportfs.h
index dc12f416a49f..a9cd507f8cd2 100644
--- a/include/linux/exportfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/exportfs.h
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ struct fid {
  * @fh_to_parent:   find the implied object's parent and get a dentry for it
  * @get_name:       find the name for a given inode in a given directory
  * @get_parent:     find the parent of a given directory
+ * @commit_metadata: commit metadata changes to stable storage
  *
  * See Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting for details on how to use
  * this interface correctly.
@@ -137,6 +138,9 @@ struct fid {
  *    is also a directory.  In the event that it cannot be found, or storage
  *    space cannot be allocated, a %ERR_PTR should be returned.
  *
+ * commit_metadata:
+ *    @commit_metadata should commit metadata changes to stable storage.
+ *
  * Locking rules:
  *    get_parent is called with child->d_inode->i_mutex down
  *    get_name is not (which is possibly inconsistent)
@@ -152,6 +156,7 @@ struct export_operations {
         int (*get_name)(struct dentry *parent, char *name,
                         struct dentry *child);
         struct dentry * (*get_parent)(struct dentry *child);
+        int (*commit_metadata)(struct inode *inode);
 };
 
 extern int exportfs_encode_fh(struct dentry *dentry, struct fid *fid,