From 856bf4d717feb8c55d4e2f817b71ebb70cfbc67b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Piggin Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:40:26 -0800 Subject: fs: sys_sync fix s_syncing livelock avoidance was breaking data integrity guarantee of sys_sync, by allowing sys_sync to skip writing or waiting for superblocks if there is a concurrent sys_sync happening. This livelock avoidance is much less important now that we don't have the get_super_to_sync() call after every sb that we sync. This was replaced by __put_super_and_need_restart. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/fs.h | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index fb59673c60b1..d7eba77f666e 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -1133,7 +1133,6 @@ struct super_block { struct rw_semaphore s_umount; struct mutex s_lock; int s_count; - int s_syncing; int s_need_sync_fs; atomic_t s_active; #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY -- cgit v1.2.2