2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
index bf9a9d5909be..05f188ed1206 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
@@ -547,7 +547,8 @@ vfs_sync_worker(
 
         if (!(vfsp->vfs_flag & VFS_RDONLY))
                 error = bhv_vfs_sync(vfsp, SYNC_FSDATA | SYNC_BDFLUSH | \
-                                        SYNC_ATTR | SYNC_REFCACHE, NULL);
+                                        SYNC_ATTR | SYNC_REFCACHE | SYNC_SUPER,
+                                        NULL);
         vfsp->vfs_sync_seq++;
         wake_up(&vfsp->vfs_wait_single_sync_task);
 }
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_vfs.h b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_vfs.h
index e2c2ce98ab5b..cb7b0d62fb96 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_vfs.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_vfs.h
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ typedef enum {
 #define SYNC_REFCACHE           0x0040  /* prune some of the nfs ref cache */
 #define SYNC_REMOUNT            0x0080  /* remount readonly, no dummy LRs */
 #define SYNC_IOWAIT             0x0100  /* wait for all I/O to complete */
+#define SYNC_SUPER              0x0200  /* flush superblock to disk */
 
 #define SHUTDOWN_META_IO_ERROR  0x0001  /* write attempt to metadata failed */
 #define SHUTDOWN_LOG_IO_ERROR   0x0002  /* write attempt to the log failed */