New helper - simple_fsync()

writes associated buffers, then does sync_inode() to write
the inode itself (and to make it clean).  Depends on
->write_inode() honouring the second argument.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index d883aa1fc2eb..ede84fa7da5d 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2345,6 +2345,8 @@ extern void simple_release_fs(struct vfsmount **mount, int *count);
 extern ssize_t simple_read_from_buffer(void __user *to, size_t count,
                         loff_t *ppos, const void *from, size_t available);
 
+extern int simple_fsync(struct file *, struct dentry *, int);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
 extern int buffer_migrate_page(struct address_space *,
                                 struct page *, struct page *);