fs: add sync_inode_metadata

Add a new helper to write out the inode using the writeback code,
that is including the correct dirty bit and list manipulation.  A few
of filesystems already opencode this, and a lot of others should be
using it instead of using write_inode_now which also writes out the
data.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 4f34ff6e5558..0b03f490572f 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1734,6 +1734,7 @@ static inline void file_accessed(struct file *file)
 }
 
 int sync_inode(struct inode *inode, struct writeback_control *wbc);
+int sync_inode_metadata(struct inode *inode, int wait);
 
 struct file_system_type {
         const char *name;